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Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Jul 2026

The land investment space has long been dominated by two extremes: speculative holds on raw acreage and full-scale horizontal development with entitlements, infrastructure, and vertical construction. Between those poles sits a less visible model, buying large rural tracts, subdividing them under existing by-right zoning provisions, and selling smaller parcels to retail buyers who want to ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Jul 2026

Multifamily real estate has experienced a correction that, by most historical standards, should be attracting capital. Prices are down 20 to 25 percent from their peaks, according to Neal Bawa, CEO and Founder of Grocapitus Investments. Rents, while flat, haven’t fallen. Yet investor appetite remains subdued, a pattern that says more about behavioral cycles than ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
23 Jul 2026

A home that would have drawn 15 offers in a weekend three years ago now sits for 60 to 120 days or longer in the Scottsdale area, and according to Brad Kimmelman, Team Leader, Senior Global Real Estate Advisor with The Homanity Team at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, the listing itself is rarely the ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
23 Jul 2026

Two homes list in Houston’s western suburbs in the same week. One is priced at $550,000. The other at $1.25 million. The cheaper home sits for 90 days. The expensive one sells over asking with multiple offers. That split, counterintuitive on its surface, is what Bryan Lillis, team lead at Luxe Realty Houston, describes as ...

Eden Godinez
23 Jul 2026

In California’s High Desert, a new class of buyer is entering the luxury real estate market with a primary goal that has little to do with rental income or appreciation. According to Hargo Khalsa, Realtor & Developer at Joshua Tree Modern, a growing number of high-income purchasers are approaching him specifically to access accelerated depreciation ...

Eden Godinez
23 Jul 2026

Real estate standoffs usually resolve themselves, prices drift, expectations adjust, and transactions eventually clear the backlog. In California’s Coachella Valley, some sellers are skipping that process altogether: rather than cut prices to move a stalled listing, they’re pulling it off the market and waiting out the slow summer season instead. The shift reflects a broader ...

Steve Marcinuk
23 Jul 2026

The conventional path to closing a commercial land deal in Texas, lender underwriting, extended documentation, months of back-and-forth, has become slow enough in the current rate environment that buyers and sellers are finding workarounds. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metro’s outlying counties, where land transactions for development, ranches, and commercial projects regularly run into six- and ...

emergent
23 Jul 2026

The assumption that a metro area’s housing market moves as a single unit rarely holds up under scrutiny, but in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, Arizona, the divergence between price segments has become unusually pronounced. According to Brad Kimmelman, Team Leader and Senior Global Real Estate Advisor with The Hômanity Team at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, homes priced ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
22 Jul 2026

The pitch sounds irresistible: buy a condo near the coast, furnish it, find a tenant who stays three to six months, and collect rent while you do almost nothing. That story circulates widely among small investors eyeing San Diego’s midterm rental market in 2026. But operators actually running these properties say the reality is far ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
22 Jul 2026

Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...