Pennsylvania Real Estate News,
From the Experts on the Ground.

Durham’s housing inventory has climbed enough that buyers can afford to be selective – and the properties sitting longest are the ones that look like everything else on the market. For investors and small builders working on the city’s infill lots, that shift has changed the calculus on what to build, how to price it, ...

The standard advice in a cooling market is to price competitively. But in East Ventura County, the problem is not that sellers are ignoring comps – it is that the comps themselves are misleading. A closed sale from six months ago may have been listed using data that was already six months old at the ...

In many coastal housing markets, the homes that could ease tight inventory belong to people who bought them decades ago. Their reasons for staying go well beyond today’s mortgage rates. Taxes on long-held gains, a shortage of homes that suit later life, and the weight of a lifetime spent in one place all push in ...

Most relocation stories begin with a job offer. In Dallas, some begin with a college acceptance letter. The city has drawn a steady stream of buyers from New York and California in recent years, many chasing space, lower costs, or a change of pace. But within that flow, family ties to the region’s universities are ...

In most housing markets, homes change hands as families grow, relocate, and scale down. In the rolling countryside of Chester County, Pennsylvania, west of Philadelphia, some properties come up only once in a generation. When they do, the sale often happens quietly, among people who already know one another. Stephen Gross of the Holly Gross ...

For much of the past decade, demand in many suburban housing markets came from people moving in from somewhere else. That engine has slowed. Higher borrowing costs have made it harder to buy without equity from a previous home, and the remote-work migration that once sent households inland has faded. What remains is a market ...