While national real estate commentary often centers on interest rates and affordability, Sheila Smith, Team Lead at RE/MAX Capital City, is watching different signals in Boise, Idaho: the pace of default notices and the number of homeowners nearing or crossing the 20% negative equity threshold. Smith reports a recent surge in default filings, which have ...
In Boise, Idaho, builder pricing and incentives are forcing resale homeowners to compete directly with new construction. Boise, Idaho’s new construction market, presents a scenario that Sheila Smith, Team Lead at RE/MAX Capital City, says she has not seen in her 20-year career: builders are matching or undercutting resale prices while offering incentives such as ...
Recent changes to vacation rental regulations in Sonoma County, California, have erased significant property value in certain neighborhoods. Some sellers are losing 10 to 15 percent of their home’s value when new buyers can no longer operate the property as a short-term rental. The impact is especially pronounced in the Russian River area, according to ...
Ongoing confusion over short-term rental rights has triggered a steep drop in values for Maui, Hawaii’s apartment-zoned vacation condos, leaving buyers and sellers unable to gauge risk or set prices. Legal battles, shifting county policy, and unresolved exemption proposals have frozen market activity and forced a sharp correction in a sector once seen as a ...
Ask most people to picture the Jersey Shore and they conjure a single image – sand, saltwater, maybe a boardwalk. What they don’t picture is the dozen-plus distinct small towns that line that coastline, each with its own character, price point, and way of life. For buyers who haven’t spent time in the area, that ...
For decades, television advertising functioned as a mass-market channel reserved primarily for large brands. High production costs, complex media buying, and steep minimum spend requirements kept independent professionals, including real estate agents, largely out of the medium. That structural barrier is now eroding. As viewing shifts toward connected TV, ad inventory has expanded while automated ...
There is a word you do not hear often enough in luxury real estate: value. The word tends to get left behind somewhere above the $3 million mark, as though properties priced in the mid-to-high single digits exist in a category where price and worth simply stop being related. Bill Melnick of Elyse Harney Real ...
New research reveals homeowners over 70 consistently receive lower sale prices than younger sellers in comparable properties. Two factors drive this pattern: deferred maintenance and private sale decisions. Scott Spelker of The Spelker Team at Coldwell Banker Realty in Madison, New Jersey, sees this dynamic regularly. His perspective combines 25 years of Wall Street financial ...
The New Jersey Shore real estate market is entering a new phase, with multiple-offer situations now rare after years of intense buyer competition. Steven Kozusko, a realtor with CENTURY 21 Thomson & Co. who serves Monmouth, Ocean, and Middlesex counties, says the difference is striking: “Four years ago, we would see 20 to 30 buyers ...
San Francisco’s real estate market has staged a rapid and pronounced comeback over the past six months, with buyers returning and properties once again attracting multiple offers—sometimes millions over asking price. After years of pandemic-driven uncertainty and high interest rates, the city’s housing market is experiencing a sharp turnaround, fueled by renewed local confidence and ...
Whiskey distilleries. Shuttered franchise restaurants. Closed bank branches. The assets turning up at commercial real estate auctions in 2026 tell a story that standard market data doesn’t — one about where distress is spreading, which lenders are most exposed, and why some of the hardest-hit sectors may not recover at all. Edward Durnil, president of ...
Florida’s real estate market has changed sharply over the past two years, with shifts extending beyond simple price movements. Professionals now face new challenges in buyer psychology, risk assessment, and the decision-making process itself. Melissa Connell, a broker with more than 20 years of experience at Palm & Pine Realty Group, has seen these changes ...
In today’s real estate market, saying no is becoming a competitive advantage. Louis Savinetti, a Tampa-based realtor with Three Avenues Group, says agents who challenge unrealistic client expectations on pricing and affordability are earning more trust — and closing more deals — than those who simply take every listing. Overpriced homes sit on the market ...
Buyers in South Jersey’s Atlantic County residential market have regained negotiating power over inspection contingencies and repair obligations, even as inventory remains low and home prices stay high. This marks a departure from the COVID-era market, when sellers could routinely demand as-is purchases and buyers had little say over property condition. “In the COVID market, ...
Mortgage rate psychology in Delaware’s residential market varies sharply by generation, with younger buyers and rate-locked sellers operating from fundamentally different baselines. This generational divide is shaping both inventory levels and buyer behavior across the state. Many homeowners are holding off on selling to avoid giving up low mortgage rates, but that explanation only partly ...
