One of the biggest reasons long-term California homeowners never sell is property taxes. After decades in the same house, their assessed value – and therefore their annual tax bill – sits far below what a new purchase would trigger. Moving means resetting to current market value, which in many Inland Empire communities means jumping from ...
Two years ago, buying a home in Corona, California felt like a sprint: tour a house, make an offer that afternoon, hope not to get outbid by a half-dozen other buyers. That urgency is gone. Homes that aren’t priced aggressively now sit on the market for roughly two months, according to Shelly Larez, a real ...
The pitch sounds compelling: buy a condo near the ocean in South Florida, rent it out, and let tenants cover your costs while the property appreciates. But the math on South Florida condos as rental investments is broken at current price levels, according to Stuart Berger, Team Co-Lead of the Stu Berger and Ana Aizenstat ...
A decade ago, a real estate investor seeking a private bridge loan needed one thing: a property with enough equity. The building was the security, and that was sufficient. Today, private lenders who have absorbed years of defaults and litigation say they have inverted that priority. The borrower’s credit history, track record, and transparency now ...
In a state where some coastal markets are showing visible strain – rising inventory, price drops, sluggish sales – Brevard County on Florida’s Space Coast is holding steady. The market isn’t hot. It’s not setting records across the board. But it’s absorbing demand at a pace that looks more like a healthy norm than either ...
The traditional office lease, five or ten years, fixed rent, passive landlord, made sense when vacancy in major metros hovered in the single digits. In Los Angeles today, roughly 40% of office space sits empty, according to Jerome Chang, founder and licensed architect of BLANKSPACES, one of America’s longest-running coworking brands. That vacancy rate means ...
Insurance companies already know what’s wrong with a house before a buyer makes an offer. They know the roof age, the flood exposure, the permit history. Buyers typically don’t have access to that same information until after closing, or never at all. That gap between what insurers know and what buyers see is not a ...
Families priced out of Los Angeles, San Diego, or Orange County are increasingly landing in the Coachella Valley, where a four-bedroom home with a pool can close for under $800,000. Vlada March is a Realtor and owner of Vlada March Real Estate Group with HomeSmart in Palm Desert, California. She says the value gap between ...
The housing slowdown in Southern California is not distributed evenly. In the corridor stretching from Temecula through North County San Diego, homes priced below city-specific thresholds are still drawing multiple offers in their first week. Luxury listings, meanwhile, sit with fewer showings and longer days on market. The result is two distinct markets operating side ...
Drive around Austin, Dallas, or several fast-growing Southern and Southwestern metros, and you’ll see apartment complexes on nearly every block. Rents have softened, and landlords are offering concessions, discounts like free months and waived fees, to fill units. For renters, the market feels generous. But large investors say this is temporary. A building boom already ...
A beautifully renovated home on a barrier island might seem like the safest bet in coastal Florida. But in Sarasota, buyers are learning that a home’s elevation relative to the base flood line matters far more than its kitchen counters or square footage. According to Tom Cail, Co-Founder of the Cail Grande Group at RE/MAX ...
The prevailing assumption in mid-2026 is that nobody refinances when mortgage rates sit in the mid-sixes (roughly 6.5 percent). According to Ron Vaimberg, president of Ron Vaimberg International, , that assumption is wrong, and it’s costing homeowners money. His mortgage coaching and training firm has worked with over 300,000 originators since 1997. Vaimberg points to ...
Automated valuation tools pull comparable sales data from nearby properties and produce confident estimates of what a house is worth. But in metros where housing stock spans more than a century, those estimates often fail to account for physical condition, structural age, and zoning designations that only a human can identify. According to one agency ...
In most housing markets, a small shift in mortgage rates changes a monthly payment by a manageable amount. In Orange County, California, where typical purchase prices run well above a million dollars, that same quarter-point shift moves payments by hundreds of dollars a month. According to Jordan Bennett, team lead of Jordan Bennett & Associates ...
The Hamptons real estate market remains stable even as buyer behavior becomes more cautious and deliberate. Veteran agents Patricia Oakley and Brian Leicht of the Oakley Leicht team at Saunders & Associates describe a landscape shaped by long-term changes in demand, inventory, and buyer expectations. Oakley, who entered real estate after 18 years in pharmaceuticals, ...
