Winning a bidding war in the Chicago metro area no longer means buying a home. A growing number of deals are falling apart during the home inspection, not because homes have major defects, but because sellers fielding multiple offers have no incentive to negotiate repairs or credits, according to Alex MacLagan, owner of MacLagan Home ...
Existing-home sales slid to roughly 3.98 million at a seasonally adjusted annual rate this fall – a 14-month low – as 30-year mortgage rates hovered near 7% and inventory climbed to about 4.9 months’ supply. For buyers, that combination cuts two ways: financing costs more, but the market has slowed enough to give them time ...
Sausalito has long been known as an artist colony turned waterfront enclave, a town where boats were built during World War II and a bohemian culture took root afterward. But the buyer pool in this small Marin County community is changing. Alongside empty-nesters downsizing from larger suburban homes, a newer cohort is emerging: young tech ...
A three-bedroom ranch in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, recently sold for $214,000 with a monthly payment of around $1,200. A comparable home in Raleigh, similar size, similar condition, would have listed closer to $320,000 with a payment near $2,200. That $1,000-a-month gap between two cities separated by roughly an hour of highway is defining where ...
For years, townhouses in central New Jersey served as a natural entry point for buyers priced out of single-family homes. That math is changing. Rising association fees, new mortgage review requirements for townhouse purchases, and a broader shift in buyer sentiment are creating a split, one where the housing type that was supposed to be ...
Salt Lake City is in the middle of a sustained growth cycle; corporate relocations, new professional sports franchises, Olympic preparation for 2032, and expanding university campuses are all drawing people and capital into the metro. But the valley where most of this activity is concentrated has a physical constraint that is becoming harder to ignore: ...
There is a growing divide in the Florida Keys housing market, and it runs along a single fault line: whether a buyer needs a mortgage. Cash buyers – many of them retirees and business owners from out of state – are driving the market’s strongest numbers. Buyers who depend on financing face compounding costs that ...
Home buyers in the Jamestown, New York, area are running into an unexpected obstacle in 2026 – and it is not the home inspection. It is the appraisal. According to Heather Shea-Canaley, a licensed real estate agent with ERA Team VP Real Estate in the Jamestown and Chautauqua County area, appraisers have grown noticeably more ...
Most deals that fall apart in Maine do not collapse because of financing problems or appraisal gaps. They collapse at the negotiation table, usually over inspection disputes worth a few hundred dollars, according to Joshua Cousineau, an agent with Cousineau Real Estate whose team covers a corridor from Kennebunk to north of Bangor. That pattern ...
After a period of declining values that followed Austin’s pandemic-era price surge, prices in the city’s luxury segment appear to have stopped falling. For buyers who have been waiting for a better deal, that changes the calculus – but the political and economic uncertainty that suppressed demand in the first place has not fully resolved, ...
Austin’s median home price has dropped roughly 10% – from around $499,000 to $450,000, according to Laura Blessing, team leader of Blessed Life Realty Group at Keller Williams Realty. But that number obscures what confuses sellers: why one home on a given street sells in a week with competing offers while the house three doors ...
In a pair of small Dallas suburbs with no mountain views and no waterfront, the median home price in Highland Park is roughly $4.6 million. The premium has little to do with scenery. According to Eve Sullivan, who has sold real estate in the Park Cities for 26 years with the Sullivan Tillery Group, the ...
The fix-and-flip playbook that worked across the Ozarks for the past several years is breaking down. Homes are sitting close to 90 days on the market and closing roughly $10,000 below list price, according to Rachel Countryman, a residential and commercial agent with eXp Realty who works across southern Missouri. With buyers demanding move-in-ready condition ...
A few years ago, Dallas–Fort Worth buyers competed in bidding wars and waived inspections. Now they are asking sellers to help cover their costs – and in most transactions, they are getting it. According to Katherine Hubbard of DFW 1% Listings, a flat-fee brokerage in the Dallas–Fort Worth metro, roughly 90 percent of her current ...
