Government & Policy

When property taxes rise sharply in a market where rents cannot keep pace, landlords do not simply absorb the cost. They sell. In Montgomery County, Texas, that pattern is accelerating. It i...

The Washington, D.C. metro housing market has long benefited from a structural floor most American cities lack: a permanent federal employment base, a growing tech sector, and a steady pipel...

In most markets, active inventory represents a fraction of recent sales. In Conroe, Texas, one of six cities within Montgomery County, there are currently 1,860 active properties on the mark...

The assumption that larger down payments protect against foreclosure has shaped U.S. lending rules for decades. But recent research suggests the relationship between equity and default is fa...

Over the past decade, private flood insurance has grown steadily as an alternative to the federal National Flood Insurance Program. For homeowners in flood-prone areas, the appeal is obvious...

Building an ADU in a Los Angeles backyard has always meant one financial path: rent it out. A homeowner could house a family member or find a tenant, but selling the unit as standalone prope...

Every time a home goes on the market in the United States, the listing data – price, photos, square footage, descriptions – enters a multiple listing service. From there, that data gets ...

The Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly known as Section 8, has always had structural demand behind it: roughly 2.2 million low-income households currently receive rental assistance thr...

Most conversations about artificial intelligence in real estate focus on the consumer-facing layer: smarter search, better recommendations, automated valuations. The more consequential quest...

Months after the Altadena fires, the gap between approved permits and actual construction starts points to a bottleneck that has little to do with city bureaucracy. Homeowners with insurance...

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...