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Buying a first home in a city where listings average just seven days on market sounds daunting. But in Burlington, Vermont, a combination of state grants, shared equity programs, and practical investment strategies is helping first-time buyers break through – sometimes with significant financial assistance they didn’t know existed. The affordability challenge is real. Rising ...
Vermont has long operated by its own rules. While housing markets across the country swing between overheated bidding wars and cooling corrections, Burlington and its surrounding communities have maintained a steadier, more insulated trajectory. For those watching from the outside, the numbers can seem counterintuitive. For those working inside the market every day, they make ...
There’s a quiet but telling pattern at open houses across northwestern Vermont. A buyer walks in, glances at the dated kitchen, peeks at the bathroom, and – without saying much – moves on. No offer. No callback. Just a polite exit and a mental note to keep looking. With more inventory available than at any ...
While home values have softened and transaction volumes slowed across much of the country, Vermont’s most densely populated region has followed its own path. Chittenden County — anchored by Burlington and its surrounding communities — has maintained housing demand that continues to outpace supply, driven by factors that extend well beyond interest-rate sensitivity. Joe Villemaire, ...
Original reporting from other Vermont markets on the KeyCrew network.
Regional bank consolidation has been reshaping construction lending across the United States for the better part of two years. Still, its effects are playing out with particular intensity in New England. As larger institutions merge and tighten their balance sheets, developers across the region are increasingly turning to private credit providers to keep projects moving. ...
While housing markets across the country have cooled under the weight of elevated interest rates and rising inventory, Vermont’s residential market continues to appreciate. The state’s constrained supply and quality-of-life-driven buyer base are producing outcomes that diverge from nearly every national trend and that gap appears to be widening. Vermont Buyers Aren’t Chasing Rates, They’re ...
Vermont’s residential market has maintained a level of stability that stands apart from national trends. Demand here is driven less by financial speculation and more by a consistent appetite for a particular way of life – and that distinction is keeping the state’s housing fundamentals intact even as other markets cool. Darcy Handy, Co-Founder and ...
Rising property taxes in Vermont are compounding an already severe affordability crisis, creating a two-sided squeeze that is pricing young buyers out of ownership while forcing landlords to raise rents — leaving an entire generation with no affordable path in either direction. A Crisis Within a Crisis The national conversation about housing affordability tends to ...
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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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