Two homes list in Houston’s western suburbs in the same week. One is priced at $550,000. The other at $1.25 million. The cheaper home sits for 90 days. The expensive one sells over asking with multiple offers. That split, counterintuitive on its surface, is what Bryan Lillis, team lead at Luxe Realty Houston, describes as ...
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Inventory in the Austin, Texas metro has loosened considerably since the pandemic-era frenzy. Buyers browsing online listings could reasonably conclude they have time to deliberate, compare, and negotiate. In the northwest suburbs – communities along the Highway 183 corridor running through Cedar Park, Leander, and Round Rock – that conclusion holds for most of the ...

Austin’s residential real estate market is moving in two directions at once. The resale segment – homes purchased between 2021 and early 2024, many now worth less than what their owners owe – is sitting longer and selling harder. New construction, meanwhile, is outpacing last year’s numbers, driven by builders with enough capital to buy ...

A resale home in Royse City, Texas, has been sitting on the market for over ten months. A nearby resale property closer to downtown Dallas went under contract in 16 days. Both are in the same metro area, served by the same agent. The difference is not location alone – it is what new-construction builders ...

A year ago, newer private lending fund managers were writing offering memorandums with relatively loose language. Today, those same documents read differently, stricter concentration limits, double-underwriting requirements, and pledges of conservative asset allocation that would have seemed unnecessary in a more optimistic climate, according to Scott Ward, owner of The Ward Company and its subsidiaries, ...

Twice in two years, Austin’s residential real estate market has built momentum toward recovery – and twice, external economic disruptions have stalled it. The pattern points to a market not in decline but in a holding pattern shaped more by geopolitical uncertainty than by local fundamentals, according to Brooke Roeder, Principal of the Roeder Group ...

Inventory in the Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has been building for months, and homes are sitting far longer than many sellers anticipated. Average days on market in some parts of Dallas proper have stretched to around five months, according to brokers working the area. Yet buyer activity remains muted, held back by interest rate sensitivity, indecision, ...
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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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