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National headlines describe a housing market frozen by high rates, but Charlotte doesn’t fit that picture neatly. Homes are still selling there, and close to their asking prices. What has changed is how much separates the winners from the rest. A well-located, well-kept, realistically priced house still moves, while one that needs work or overreaches ...
At first glance, Charleston might seem like a friendlier market for first-time buyers than it was a year ago. Mortgage rates have stabilized, inventory is up slightly from pandemic lows, and sellers are more open to negotiation. Yet the reality is quite different from appearances. Entry-level homes are lingering, while luxury properties — often priced ...
Charleston’s coastal real estate market is exposing buyers to thousands of dollars in unnecessary insurance costs due to a gap in local risk knowledge, according to a longtime specialist who says national insurance providers routinely overcharge by relying on broad risk assumptions rather than property-level details. Lisa Patterson, a Realtor and historic home specialist with ...
Charleston’s historic real estate market is operating under conditions that diverge from broader national trends. While luxury housing markets in other cities have seen prices fluctuate with interest rates and economic uncertainty, Charleston’s historic properties are holding their value and rarely appraise below the contract price. Lisa Patterson, a Realtor and historic home specialist with ...
While many luxury real estate markets across the country have cooled, Charleston’s high-end property sector has remained stable, powered by buyers who prioritize lifestyle over short-term investment gains. Industry veterans say this focus on quality of life, rather than speculation, has insulated Charleston from the volatility seen in other cities. Lisa Patterson, a longtime Charleston ...
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Most national conversations about housing affordability assume entry-level and mid-range homes move quickly while luxury inventory lingers. In the Mount Pleasant and barrier island submarkets around Charleston, South Carolina, that pattern is inverted. Homes listed between $1 million and $2 million are selling briskly, while properties in the $300,000 to $700,000 range – the segment ...
In Anderson, South Carolina, the number most sellers fixate on when listing a home – what similar properties sold for recently – may be the reason their listing sits unsold. Builders sitting on unsold new construction have cut prices aggressively enough that the past twelve months of sales data no longer reflects what buyers actually ...
For years, lakefront real estate around Anderson, South Carolina ran on a straightforward formula: limited shoreline, steady inbound migration, and prices that moved in one direction. That formula has fractured. Persistent drought, a federal infrastructure decision that will keep Lake Hartwell’s water levels suppressed for up to a decade, and a glut of new construction ...
The commercial real estate market in Greenville, South Carolina’s upstate region, is not frozen, but the velocity of transactions has slowed enough that a different kind of legal work is filling the pipeline. Rather than closing acquisitions and dispositions, local developers are focused on stabilizing their existing portfolios: getting buildings leased, generating cash flow, and ...
The land investment space has long been dominated by two extremes: speculative holds on raw acreage and full-scale horizontal development with entitlements, infrastructure, and vertical construction. Between those poles sits a less visible model, buying large rural tracts, subdividing them under existing by-right zoning provisions, and selling smaller parcels to retail buyers who want to ...
Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...
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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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