In real estate, the standard response to a slowdown is to cut expenses as transaction volume falls. But according to Montreal-based team leader Joëlle Bitar, who manages over 100 active listings, this strategy keeps most brokers from ever reaching the top of the industry. Bitar, who leads a 25-person team and ranks among the top ...
Aggressive financing and bundled perks from production builders are creating a growing problem in mid-market residential real estate, trapping recent buyers in homes they cannot resell at market value. According to one Pensacola-area agent, this challenge is especially acute in the $300,000 to $400,000 segment, where production builders dominate, and their incentives distort the normal ...
Sergio Sciortino, a broker associate with Keller Williams Village Square Realty who has worked in Bergen County for over 25 years, says the buyer mix at open houses and in transactions has returned to pre-pandemic norms, despite continued media reports of ongoing urban migration. “I read those headlines too, and I saw all that, and ...
Better Living Realty’s new service helps property owners increase rents responsibly while maintaining tenant relationships – no upfront costs Connecticut landlords facing a common dilemma now have a solution that doesn’t require confronting longtime tenants about overdue rent increases. Rob Marucci, broker-owner of Better Living Realty LLC, has launched a “Landlord Tune-Up Program” that positions ...
The music industry’s battle with Napster in the early 2000s stands as one of the most cautionary tales in modern media history. Rather than embracing technology that could amplify their reach to millions, record labels chose litigation over innovation. They sued their own customers and fought the very platforms that represented the future of content ...
CHORD Real Estate to Host Virtual Preview Ahead of May Summit CHORD Real Estate is opening the doors to Panama investment opportunities through a free webinar scheduled for March 19th at 6:00 PM CST. The virtual event aims to demystify international real estate investment for Americans considering portfolio diversification beyond U.S. borders. The webinar serves ...
Media headlines calling Cape Coral the worst housing market in America have sparked concern. Still, local real estate leader James Sommers, Team Leader at James Sommers Team, says these narratives overlook key facts about how the market is actually functioning. Instead of a collapse, Sommers sees Cape Coral returning to pre-pandemic sales activity, with transactions ...
A steady migration is redrawing the real estate landscape in secondary markets like Pensacola, as more buyers leave established neighborhoods and city centers in favor of rural properties with acreage. Local real estate professionals say this shift is not just a matter of lifestyle preference but is systematically altering demand patterns and development boundaries across ...
In off-grid communities across the Hudson Valley, infrastructure risks that rarely appear in market data are quietly derailing real estate transactions at the inspection stage. While the real estate industry routinely tracks financing issues, appraisal gaps, and inspection problems, one overlooked factor has become the leading cause of failed deals in areas without municipal infrastructure: ...
The short-term rental boom has created a new wave of investors specifically buying properties to unlock accelerated depreciation through cost segregation studies, but many are generating tax losses in the wrong income bucket, rendering hundreds of thousands in deductions unusable. The issue centers on a fundamental tax distinction that determines whether accelerated depreciation offsets your ...
With rapid appreciation no longer a given, investors are shifting their focus to dependable income and the equity gained through disciplined amortization. The era of effortless real estate appreciation, fueled by historically low interest rates and post-pandemic fervor, has definitively ended, forcing a painful but necessary philosophical reset among investors. For years, many sought wealth ...
Property management has evolved through three distinct waves. Understanding each one helps explain why the industry is at a pivotal moment. As Ben Handelman, Director of Automation & Operational Intelligence at Keasy, observes: “Property management has gone through two real waves. We’re now entering the third.” Wave 1: Software-First (The Foundation) The first wave was ...
When Jeri Frank, co-founder of STRATAFOLIO, reviews a new client’s financial data for the first time, the red flags are almost always the same. Bloated profit and loss statements with too many accounts. Sometimes expenses are misclassified as income, or income is misclassified as expenses. And perhaps most concerning, tenant deposits that match expected amounts ...
Oversupply, rising costs, and tougher regulations have exposed how fragile the short-term rental model really was – and why so many investors are now facing losses, foreclosures, or a forced reset. Short-term rentals (STRs) were once the darling of residential investment, offering seemingly endless returns during the post-COVID boom. But that trend has shifted profoundly ...
Manhattan’s luxury real estate market is charting a path distinct from national trends, with ultra-high-end sales, by some accounts, climbing by 58% even as mid-market segments decline by 10%. This sharp divide highlights the unique dynamics at play for New York’s most expensive properties, where buyer confidence, financial strength, and limited inventory have combined to ...
