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Vacation rental deals in Gatlinburg are increasingly collapsing during the home inspection phase, according to Deanna Workman, a Realtor with Century 21 Legacy GP. But Workman says this trend reflects more than just routine inspection issues. Instead, it points to a pattern of investors underestimating actual property costs, then using inspection contingencies to back out ...

Vacation rental occupancy rates in Gatlinburg have plunged from peaks of 80 percent in 2021 to about 53 percent today, according to Deanna Workman, a REALTOR® with Century 21 Legacy GP who specializes in Smoky Mountains properties. Workman says the cause is not fewer tourists or new regulations, but a flood of new vacation rentals ...

Steve Marcinuk
16 Jan 2026

The Great Smoky Mountains region has long attracted vacation rental investors seeking steady returns, but market dynamics are shifting. Occupancy rates in Gatlinburg have fallen sharply, from pandemic-era highs of 80% in 2021 to about 53% today, forcing agents and investors to adjust their strategies amid greater competition and more selective travelers. Deanna Workman, a ...

When buyers relocate to a mid-size city like Chattanooga, they choose a home based on price, lot size, and proximity to restaurants or schools. Traffic rarely makes the short list – the whole appeal of a smaller market is that you leave gridlock behind. But in a city growing as fast as Chattanooga, the highway ...

KeyCrew
25 Jul 2024

I look forward to leveraging my experience to develop innovative lending solutions and empower Chattanooga residents to achieve their dream of homeownership.”— Steven Light CHATTANOOGA, TENNESSEE, USA, July 25, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ — Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise, a leading Community Development Financial Institution (CDFI) dedicated to providing affordable lending solutions in Chattanooga, recently announced the appointment of ...

CNE Strengthens Mortgage Origination with Appointment of Seasoned Leader Steven Light as VP of Lending and Operations

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Alejandra Rodriguez
27 Aug 2026

Some sellers in the Chattanooga metro are still anchoring their expectations to peak post-pandemic pricing, while today’s buyers have grown far more disciplined and value-conscious. The result is a market where correctly priced homes still move, but overpriced listings accumulate days on market until sellers accept a reality they could have acknowledged from the start. ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Jul 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
22 Jul 2026

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 ...

Steve Marcinuk
11 May 2026

Nashville’s reputation as one of America’s fastest-growing cities has long attracted investors, developers, and transplants drawn by job growth, no state income tax, and a vibrant urban culture. As of mid-2026, the market has entered a more complicated phase that rewards careful analysis over momentum-driven optimism. Tasha DeRegis, founder of Sell My House Fast TN, ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
10 Apr 2026

A three-bedroom rental property in Hopkinsville, Kentucky, is ready to close. The investor has cash in hand, the seller has agreed to terms, but the deal collapses when the appraisal comes in $40,000 below the contract price. The sale is dead. This scenario is increasingly common on the Kentucky side of the Tennessee-Kentucky border, where ...

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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

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