In a city where 95 to 98 percent of residential transactions involve homes roughly a century old, new construction doesn’t need to do much to stand out. But a small group of Chicago builders is pushing well past that low bar – delivering all-electric, high-performance homes into neighborhoods with significant vacant land, and finding that ...
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex added over a million residents in the last decade, more than any other metro area in the United States, according to Yaron Yashar, a Realtor with Fathom Realty who leads the Dallas Homes Group. But population growth alone has not insulated the housing market from inventory buildup. In August 2026, DFW ...
When investors evaluate an industrial property, they typically see one rent figure attached to one building. The yard – the paved or unpaved land surrounding that building – gets bundled into the deal as though it were incidental. At firms specializing in industrial outdoor storage, analysts argue this is a mispricing. The land itself generates ...
When buyers relocate to a mid-size city like Chattanooga, they choose a home based on price, lot size, and proximity to restaurants or schools. Traffic rarely makes the short list – the whole appeal of a smaller market is that you leave gridlock behind. But in a city growing as fast as Chattanooga, the highway ...
The conventional wisdom about empty nesters is simple: the kids leave, you sell the big house, you move somewhere smaller. In the Austin market right now, the opposite is happening. Retirees and late-career buyers are purchasing larger homes on the city’s outskirts – not to fill rooms with furniture, but to bring adult children and ...
The appeal of building multifamily housing in fast-growing Sun Belt metros is obvious: job creation, population growth, and strong absorption fundamentals draw capital in waves. What gets less attention is the compounding operational stress that hits once dozens of developers enter the same market simultaneously and then, driven by lending cycles, start their projects within ...
The typical Austin homebuyer profile has shifted. While the city’s reputation as a tech magnet still holds, a growing segment of the market is driven not by young professionals chasing career growth but by empty nesters and retirees assembling households under one roof, buying homes large enough to accommodate adult children and grandchildren who aren’t ...
Some sellers in the Chattanooga metro are still anchoring their expectations to peak post-pandemic pricing, while today’s buyers have grown far more disciplined and value-conscious. The result is a market where correctly priced homes still move, but overpriced listings accumulate days on market until sellers accept a reality they could have acknowledged from the start. ...
In the D.C. metro area this summer, homes are sitting longer than they did a year ago. Many sellers instinctively slash the asking price. But that reflex may be costing them money. Time on market is not always a pricing problem. Sometimes the issue is presentation, timing, or simply the pace at which the right ...
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 is creating a ripple effect: renters are displaced, the market floods with additional inventory, and buyers gain leverage. Maria Borrego, a Realtor with 20 ...
The conversation about buying a home in Tucson keeps circling back to interest rates. Rates are too high. Rates might drop. Rates were better two years ago. It is the wrong conversation, and it is costing buyers real money. Tony Ray Baker, owner and team leader at RE/MAX Fine Properties and the agent behind SeeTucsonHomes, ...
Across Polk County, Florida, days on market have stretched into the 90s and sellers are granting concessions on the majority of transactions. The surface data looks soft. But below $200,000, according to Jen Lay, team leader and listing specialist at The Lay Group with eXp Realty in Lakeland, the market operates under entirely different conditions ...
Most housing markets follow interest rates, inventory cycles, or seasonal weather patterns. In Weber and Davis County, Utah, the dominant variable is simpler: when school starts and when it ends. In a region defined by large families and strong ties to local school systems, real estate activity compresses around the academic calendar in ways that ...
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 pipeline of military and government-adjacent relocations. But that stability hasn’t insulated the region from a growing tension between what sellers believe their homes are worth and ...
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 market while only 2,275 sold over the past six months. That near-parity between supply and absorption tells a clear story about where this north-Houston-area market sits ...
