In most housing markets, the home that sold down the street gives you a reasonable sense of what yours might fetch. In Greater Boston right now, that logic has broken down. Two nearly identi...
A year or two ago, almost anything listed in Jupiter or Palm Beach Gardens sold fast. Today, agents working those zip codes describe a market that has split cleanly in two: turnkey homes sti...
Military families relocating to the Tampa Bay area are increasingly bypassing neighborhoods near MacDill Air Force Base in favor of surrounding suburbs. The shift is driven by school quality...
In many parts of the country, new construction has served as a pressure valve for tight housing inventory. In New York’s Capital Region, that dynamic plays out differently. Builders he...
Property taxes in Illinois have long been a source of frustration, but the conversation has moved in recent years from quiet grumbling to active pushback. With assessed values climbing along...
Regional bank consolidation has been reshaping construction lending across the United States for the better part of two years. Still, its effects are playing out with particular intensity in...
Buyers are making offers on homes that don’t exist yet. Investors are committing capital to buildings before a shovel hits the ground. The technology making that possible is reshaping ...
Loans originated when interest rates were near zero are now coming due in a very different market. For some owners, refinancing is painful but manageable. For others, the math simply doesn&#...
Most active real estate investors treat origination fees as a fixed cost of doing business. Each deal, another percentage of the loan amount leaves at closing. But homebldr, a technology-dri...
When buyers relocate to the Buffalo area, they tend to gravitate toward the same well-known suburbs: Amherst, Williamsville, and the established neighborhoods of North Buffalo. Grand Island,...
Multifamily properties in Northern New Jersey are selling fast and well above asking price. That activity looks like a clear signal to investors, but agents working the market argue that the...
The purchase prices look almost too good to be true. In Newburgh, New York, a small Hudson Valley city of roughly 30,000 people spanning three square miles, properties can be listed for figu...
Walk into certain manufactured home communities in Central Florida, and you’ll find homes built in the early 1980s selling for prices that would surprise most buyers who’ve writt...
For most of its history as a second-home destination, the Hudson Valley ran on a single engine: New York City money. That engine is still running, but it is no longer the only one, and the c...
Nearly two years after one of the slowest periods the Miami real estate market has seen in recent memory, conditions are gradually improving. Transaction volume remains below pandemic-era pe...
