Government & Policy

A property that sits outside a designated FEMA flood zone is not necessarily free of flood risk. It may simply be in territory nobody has formally assessed yet. The United States has roughly...

Condominium projects originally designed for sale are converting to rental use across Quebec, adding inventory to a market where vacancy is already rising, and rents are falling. For small l...

Buyers moving inland from Los Angeles and Orange County to stretch their purchasing power in Chino and Chino Hills, California, are running into a cost that wasn’t part of their origin...

A city of 10,000 people surrounded by 400 lakes within a 15-to-20-minute radius doesn’t have an obvious expansion path. Detroit Lakes, Minnesota, sits in a geography that simultaneousl...

For years, Buffalo and its surrounding counties were among the hottest investor markets in the Northeast. Affordable entry points, low property taxes, and strong rental demand made two- to f...

Montreal’s rental market spent the post-COVID years absorbing a wave of investment capital. Smaller developers and larger companies alike bought properties, renovated them, and listed ...

Cross-border real estate investment has long involved a painful irony: money moves digitally in seconds, but property purchases still require travel, intermediaries, and paper. In markets li...

The gap between what South Florida sellers believe their homes are worth and what buyers will pay has become a defining feature of the current market. According to Peter Blicharz, a Real Est...

For years, offsite and modular construction occupied a familiar position in housing conversations: promising in theory, unproven at scale, and haunted by high-profile failures from the last ...

The short-term rental boom that swept through New York’s Hudson Valley during the pandemic years has given way to a less forgiving environment. Regulations are tightening across munici...

For years, real estate observers in the Philadelphia metro region described South Jersey as undervalued – a suburban stretch with beach access and lower taxes that hadn’t caught up t...

Two years ago in the Buffalo metro, getting a home often meant going over the asking price. Buyers approved for $350,000 would bid $360,000 and figure out the difference later. That era is o...

Buyers relocating to South Jersey from New York or North Jersey often arrive expecting a bargain. Home prices are lower, lots are bigger, and commute access to Philadelphia remains strong. B...

It sounds backward, but in New York’s Hudson Valley, paying a higher price for a home in good condition may cost less overall than buying a cheaper fixer-upper. Renovation costs have c...

For six years, Rochester’s residential real estate market operated under a simple rule: list it, and it sells. Property values climbed roughly 75 to 80 percent since the pandemic began...