While billionaires retreat inland to Stone Creek Ranch, downtown Delray Beach is quietly becoming South Florida’s most valuable infill market. If you track South Florida luxury real estate by oceanfront sales alone, you’re missing the bigger story. The region’s most significant wealth migration isn’t happening where you’d expect – and neither is its most promising ...
Matt Mobley’s path from teaching algebra to running a $20 million real estate business in Central Florida is unusual, but his analytical skills and focus on relationships have helped him build a resilient brokerage in Lake County’s competitive market. Mobley, now the owner of Century 21 Hancock in Clermont, Florida, first arrived in the Orlando ...
The ongoing artificial intelligence boom is fueling a surge of ultra-high-net-worth buyers in Silicon Valley, generating record activity in the region’s luxury real estate market. At the same time, most other segments show clear signs of slowing. As AI company valuations soar, the influx of new wealth is pushing prices higher at the top end, ...
South Florida’s real estate market is undergoing a significant transformation as remote work and shifting business priorities redraw the map of American migration. Once known primarily as a retirement destination, the region now attracts professionals, remote workers, and companies seeking alternatives to traditional hubs such as New York and Chicago. Raymond Fernandez, or simply “Ray”, a Realtor at ...
Omaha’s rising profile is drawing national interest, with Forbes recently naming it the number one city to move to in the United States. But while headlines highlight a wave of Midwest migration, the day-to-day reality on the ground is more complex. Nicki Headen, a leading agent at eXp Realty and one of Nebraska’s top producers, ...
New York City’s commercial real estate market processes about 50 million square feet of lease transactions each year, a scale unmatched in other U.S. cities. Norman Bobrow, founder of Norman Bobrow & Co., has spent 45 years building a brokerage business that stands out by following a strict rule: represent only tenants, never landlords. “I can’t ...
Linda Fleischer of Coldwell Banker Realty says fear of unpredictable HOA increases is making Florida condos nearly unsellable to the demographic that should want them most. Florida’s condominium market is facing a crisis that goes beyond recent changes to reserve requirements and new mandates for special assessments. According to Linda Fleischer, a licensed real estate ...
The public construction industry faces a pricing disorder that surpasses the confusion of pre-Internet real estate, according to one industry insider. While residential homebuyers once struggled to value properties without reliable sales data, contractors bidding on public infrastructure projects face even greater information gaps—resulting in bids on identical projects that can differ by millions of ...
Among major American industries, construction remains uniquely disconnected from aggregated data infrastructure. Unlike real estate, which has centralized platforms like Zillow or financial markets with Bloomberg terminals, construction relies on information scattered across thousands of municipal filing cabinets. All relevant data is technically public record, but until recently, almost none of it was accessible in ...
Norman Bobrow, president and founder of Norman Bobrow & Co., Inc., warns that office buildings financed above 65% loan-to-value face fundamentally different constraints than conservatively financed properties – and tenants are bearing the consequences. The current distress in the office real estate market is directly attributable to overleveraging during the last expansion cycle, according to ...
Ohio developers face a permitting problem unrelated to market demand or project quality, according to Brian Lorenz, Director of Planning and Permitting for the Ohio House of Representatives. Instead, Lorenz says, developers must navigate overlapping jurisdictions that require the same permit applications to be submitted multiple times—often with conflicting requirements that can make projects economically ...
As real estate prices in established Midwest markets climb beyond the reach of many adaptive reuse projects, developers are reconsidering where to invest. According to one industry executive, secondary markets are positioned to benefit from an apparent economic reality: the cost of acquiring and converting buildings in legacy cities remains dramatically lower than in their ...
The multifamily acquisition market is splitting into two distinct channels with very different economics, according to one acquisitions executive who has closed over $300 million in transactions. While institutional capital typically targets properties marketed publicly through major brokerages, a growing group of operators is finding better pricing and deal structures by negotiating directly with owners ...
Institutional investors entering secondary markets often overlook how neighborhood opposition and complex entitlements can derail otherwise viable projects, according to a Kansas City developer who advises fund managers. When institutional investors move into secondary markets, they typically bring strategies honed in significant cities, detailed market analysis, and the belief that their resources can overcome local ...
Industry veteran Sergio Grado, who has worked across Houston, Dallas, Austin, and San Antonio for over two decades, says Texas’s major real estate markets now face distinct challenges that generic investment strategies cannot address. Grado, a second-generation builder with experience in construction, business development, and distribution throughout Texas, observes that the differences among Houston, Dallas, ...
