In Pierce County, Washington, cash offers used to mean leverage. Investors could close fast, skip financing contingencies, and walk away with a discount. That trade-off has broken down, according to Josh Barnard of The Barnard Group with Real Broker – and the shift is rewriting how investors need to approach acquisitions in this market. Barnard, ...
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Listing high and reducing later has long been a default strategy for sellers testing the market. In Pierce County, Washington, that approach is backfiring. Inventory has climbed to roughly 3.36 months; homes that sold in days during 2020 and 2021 now sit for 30, 60, or 90 days, and prices have eased year over year. ...
By the numbers, Clark County, Washington, remains in seller’s market territory. At 3.9 months of inventory, the metro area just north of Portland, Oregon, hasn’t crossed the four-month threshold that local agents use to mark a balanced market. But the numbers and the experience on the ground are telling different stories – and for buyers ...
Over the past two years, cities and states have passed roughly 250 zoning rule changes and nearly 180 state-level housing laws aimed at loosening the restrictions that once made it illegal to build more than one home on a lot. The stated goal is to chip away at the “missing middle,” the housing stock between ...
Seattle has spent the past several years trying to make it easier to build an accessory dwelling unit. The city’s ADUniverse library of pre-approved backyard-cottage plans can cut permit review time to as little as two to six weeks, down from several months for a fully custom design, and the city has continued loosening zoning ...
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Buyers in Georgetown, Texas, and across Williamson County have plenty of new construction to choose from right now. According to Realtor Tanya Kerr of T Kerr Property Group, builder incentives are giving new homes a clear edge over many resale listings, but buyers need to look past the advertised monthly payment before deciding. Many buyers ...
Buyers moving to Williamson County usually face the same early decision: Georgetown, Round Rock or Liberty Hill? Realtor Tanya Kerr of T Kerr Property Group in Georgetown, Texas, says Houston is currently the largest source of in-state relocation buyers to the area, while California leads among out-of-state buyers. Their reasons differ. Houston buyers are mostly ...
Six months ago, most data center site conversations in Kansas City started with power and price. Today, says Logan Freeman, managing broker at Midwest CRE Advisors in Overland Park, Kansas, the first question is usually about policy. Since June, a state executive order, a public rejection from Kansas City planners, a wave of local ballot ...
Most data center headlines in Kansas City are about hyperscale. Google leased the entire 920,400-square-foot Building VII at the I-49 Industrial Center in south Kansas City, Missouri, for a hyperscale data center, with move-in expected in January 2027, according to Newmark Zimmer’s third-quarter industrial report. Logan Freeman, managing broker at Midwest CRE Advisors in Overland ...
Narek Arakelyan, Secretary-General of FIABCI, the International Real Estate Federation, will attend the 4th International MLS Forum, November 16-17, 2026, at Raffles Istanbul in Istanbul, Türkiye, with a FIABCI delegation. FIABCI’s work with the Global Data Exchange (GDX) is a central focus of this year’s Forum. FIABCI World President Lily Chang will speak at the ...
Arizona has made it easier to build and rent accessory dwelling units, commonly called casitas, but the laws do not turn every guest house into an income property. For buyers in Tucson, Arizona, the gap between what a casita could earn and what it is legally allowed to do is where expensive assumptions begin. Tony ...
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