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Steve Marcinuk
22 Oct 2025

The real estate industry has long faced a core challenge: enabling buyers to visualize properties that have not yet been built. While traditional marketing has used floor plans, renderings, and model units, more developers are now adopting interactive digital twins to help buyers better understand future properties. SmartPixel, a Montreal-based company founded in 2014, is ...

Steve Marcinuk
22 Oct 2025

Better Living Realty’s “Home Staging Revolutionized” program eliminates upfront costs while transforming unsellable properties into competitive listings. CONNECTICUT – October 22, 2025 – Rob Marucci has spent 14 years telling sellers the same thing: clean, declutter, paint, and fix the small issues before listing. The advice was sound. The problem was execution. Sellers either lacked ...

Steve Marcinuk
22 Oct 2025

KLAUS Multiparking America marks 35 years of delivering mechanical and automated parking systems across the United States, a milestone that reflects both the company’s German engineering heritage and its adaptation to American real estate markets. Since establishing its first U.S. projects in 1990, the company has installed thousands of parking spaces across multifamily, mixed-use, hospitality, ...

Steve Marcinuk
22 Oct 2025

The ongoing housing affordability crisis has led to new solutions from unexpected areas of the real-estate sector. American Pledge Foundation, a Birmingham-based nonprofit, has developed a “hardship assistance program” aimed at preventing foreclosures before they occur, an approach that recently secured a patent from the U.S. Patent Office. The foundation is built on the idea ...

Steve Marcinuk
21 Oct 2025

A new challenge is emerging in Pensacola’s military housing market, where service members who bought homes during the 2021-2022 surge are now underwater, unable to sell without significant financial loss. Christina Leavenworth of Levin Rinke Realty, a veteran real estate professional with nearly a decade in the Pensacola market, says this situation is having a ...

Steve Marcinuk
21 Oct 2025

A significant shift in seller attitudes toward VA loans is highlighting important changes in Florida’s real estate market, according to military relocation specialist Victoria Perez of Tropic Shores Realty LLC. The move from widespread VA loan rejection to broader acceptance is expanding opportunities for military families across the region. “Previously, especially when I first started ...

Rudi Davis
21 Oct 2025

A provocative vision of real estate’s future is emerging: homes being sold without a single buyer ever stepping foot inside. This isn’t just theoretical speculation, it’s backed by $2 billion in transaction volume through one platform alone, according to Anne Lakusta, President and Co-founder of iFinder Offers. The Privacy Paradox in Modern Home Sales “Who ...

Rudi Davis
21 Oct 2025

Despite the rush toward automation in real estate, having an experienced advisor remains critical for protecting both buyers and sellers, according to Anne Lakusta, President and Co-founder of iFinder Offers. Drawing on decades of industry experience, she argues that technology should enhance rather than replace professional guidance. The Risk of Going Solo “I don’t allow ...

Rudi Davis
21 Oct 2025

While market reports and economic headlines swing between optimism and doom, one veteran commercial real estate broker argues that success depends more on daily discipline than trying to time market cycles. “You hear a lot of reports and everything in your inbox, and it’s, you know, one day, it’s a good outlook. The next day, ...

Steve Marcinuk
21 Oct 2025

While luxury towers grab headlines, a quieter transformation is reshaping South Florida’s real estate fundamentals. Innovation districts like FAU Research Park in Boca Raton are creating employment density that generates predictable demand across property types, a dynamic that differs sharply from pure residential speculation. Larry Mastropieri, Broker/Owner of The Mastropieri Group tracks and reports these ...

Steve Marcinuk
21 Oct 2025

Central Florida’s luxury real estate market is establishing a unique identity that distinguishes it from Florida’s more established high-end markets. While Miami draws attention with ultra-luxury prices and Tampa attracts corporate relocations, Orlando has become an affordability-focused luxury destination that is appealing to buyers from across the country. The market’s draw centers on a strong ...

Steve Marcinuk
21 Oct 2025

Arizona continues to attract thousands of new residents each month, but this influx is creating new complexities for buyers and sellers in the state’s evolving real estate market. With Phoenix now the nation’s second most popular relocation destination, local professionals are adjusting their approaches to serve an increasingly diverse and sometimes uncertain buyer pool. Migration ...

Steve Marcinuk
20 Oct 2025

For decades, sophisticated real estate syndications have remained the preserve of institutional investors and high-net-worth individuals. While retail investors gained unprecedented access to equity markets through platforms like Robinhood and E*TRADE, real estate investment remained largely inaccessible beyond homeownership and publicly traded REITs. That dynamic is shifting. Mor Milo, co-founder of Relli, a platform applying ...