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Investors who purchased Cleveland apartment buildings in 2021 or 2022 with 3% mortgages and top-of-market pricing now face a sale price gap they cannot close. Mortgage rates sit in the six-and-a-half-percent range, which means buyers today need higher cap rates to make the numbers work, and higher cap rates mean lower prices. Owners who stretched ...

For years, renting was understood as a temporary condition, something you did while you saved, while you waited, while you figured out where you wanted to land. Homeownership was the destination. Renting was the road. That framework is breaking down. Across the country, renters who expected to buy are staying put longer than they planned, ...

Steve Marcinuk
15 May 2026

Mention Cleveland to most real estate investors and the reaction is predictable: affordable, stable, and unremarkable. That perception is increasingly out of step with what is actually happening on the ground. Inventory is tight, multiple-offer situations are common, and sellers who prepare their homes correctly are routinely exceeding asking prices by significant margins. For those ...

Steve Marcinuk
05 Dec 2025

The foreclosure crisis that swept through Cleveland left behind more than abandoned homes – it created a landscape of empty lots and a rare opportunity for developers willing to approach urban renewal differently. Jermaine Brooks and his partners at WRJ Developers saw these vacant parcels as the foundation for a new kind of affordable housing, ...

KeyCrew
25 Jun 2024

STRONGSVILLE, Ohio, June 25, 2024 (Newswire.com) – Foundation Software, LLC has been named a 2024 Top Workplaces winner by The Plain Dealer. This is the 10th year in a row and overall 13th time Foundation Software has won this award. The Top Workplaces Awards are nationally recognized honors determined by Energage who distributes an anonymous ...

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Steve Marcinuk
01 Sep 2026

The youth sports tourism industry has grown large enough to anchor entire mixed-use developments, not just stadiums or standalone facilities, but full districts of hotels, retail, restaurants, and multifamily housing built around tournament-capable venues. In Lebanon, Ohio, a development group is betting that a field sports facility focused on soccer and lacrosse can serve as ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
18 Aug 2026

In Cleveland’s multifamily investment market, the frenzied pace of 2021 and 2022 has given way to something more measured. Properties that once drew multiple offers within days of listing are now sitting longer. Sellers who acquired buildings during the low-rate era are discovering that what they paid and what the market will bear today are ...

Steve Marcinuk
08 May 2026

As uncertainty ripples through housing markets across the country, one Midwestern metro continues to draw buyers, investors, and corporate relocations with quiet consistency. Columbus, Ohio, and its surrounding communities have built a reputation for stability that stands apart from the volatility seen in coastal and Sun Belt markets. With national transaction volumes declining and interest ...

Rudi Davis
05 May 2026

In competitive markets where homes sell in under a week, and buyers routinely bid above asking price, a friction point is emerging that neither buyers nor sellers can fully control: the appraisal. According to Paula Koontz, Team Lead and Realtor at The Koontz Team, Keller Williams Classic Properties Realty, appraisal shortfalls are becoming one of ...

Rudi Davis
11 Apr 2026

Skyrocketing insurance premiums in Florida are wiping out cash flow on rental properties that would otherwise be sound investments. John Bastidas, President and Founder of DSCR Investor Loanz, says the insurance crisis has changed the investment landscape in one of the country’s busiest real estate markets. For many investors, the numbers no longer work. They ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
09 Sep 2026

In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...

Steve Marcinuk
09 Sep 2026

For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jul 2026

The company has already published over 5,000 articles in collaboration with over 1,800 market experts across all 50 states, powered by a tech-forward approach to research and reporting. MIAMI, FL – July 28, 2026: KeyCrew Media, the expert-sourced real estate news network, today unveiled KeyCrew Local, a network of local real estate news sites and ...

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