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Steve Marcinuk
04 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
03 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
03 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
02 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
02 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
01 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
31 Jul 2026

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 ...

Steve Marcinuk
31 Jul 2026

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, ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
31 Jul 2026

In a region often discussed in extremes – either “heating up” or “cooling off” – Palm Desert’s residential market is doing neither. The city leads the Coachella Valley in monthly home sales volume, carries roughly four months of inventory, and operates as a balanced market, according to Vlada March, Realtor and owner of Vlada March ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
31 Jul 2026

The gap between what sells fast and what lingers in Southern California’s inland and coastal submarkets has less to do with location than most buyers assume. In the corridor stretching from Temecula and Murrieta through Fallbrook and down into Oceanside, Carlsbad, and Vista, the dividing line is increasingly about condition and price, not neighborhood prestige ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
31 Jul 2026

Northeast Florida’s housing market carries a four-month supply of inventory, a figure that, by conventional standards, still favors sellers. But within that tight market, a divide is forming between resale properties and new construction that is forcing existing homeowners to rethink how they position a listing. The issue is not a lack of demand. Builders ...