Ocean County’s Whiting and Manchester areas have long drawn retirees with a simple promise: dramatically lower property taxes than North Jersey. A single-family home here might carry an annual tax bill of $1,800, compared to $14,000 in Essex County for a similar property, according to Kenneth Freeman, a Realtor Associate and Senior Housing Specialist with ...
A narrative is building around Tampa Bay: that the city is on a trajectory to become Florida’s next premium market, rivaling Miami in desirability and price. Corporate relocations, data center construction, and population growth fuel the comparison. But for buyers evaluating Tampa today, the “next Miami” framing may obscure more than it reveals, and purchase ...
For a brief window when mortgage rates hovered near 3 percent, buying a vacation rental condo on Maui was straightforward math. Borrow cheap money for 30 years, collect nightly rental income that comfortably exceeded carrying costs, and build equity in a place you could visit a couple of weeks a year. The numbers worked on ...
Something quiet has been happening in the northern New Jersey housing market. Buyers who spent the past two years waiting for mortgage rates to fall back toward three percent are starting to move anyway, not because rates dropped, but because life did not wait. That shift in buyer psychology may matter more to the near-term ...
The conventional image of industrial real estate, massive distribution centers, six-figure square footage, institutional capital, does not match what is actually happening on the ground in Houston. While national coverage focuses on large speculative builds near ports and logistics corridors, a different pattern is playing out in the city’s flex and light industrial segments: demand ...
In South Florida’s residential market, geography matters in ways that don’t show up in regional averages. Properties in western suburban communities with strong school districts are drawing multiple offers within days of listing, while homes on the eastern side, closer to the beach and urban cores, are sitting with heavy inventory and selling at discounts ...
The conventional narrative about commercial lending pullback focuses on big banks and headline-grabbing office defaults. But in the Mid-Atlantic’s middle market, deals between $2 million and $15 million, the tightening is showing up in subtler, more consequential ways: shorter interest-only periods, lower leverage ratios, and a new insistence on seasoned cash flow that extends timelines ...
Most independent brokerages face a familiar fork: stay small and nimble, or grow and risk becoming indistinguishable from the national brands they once positioned against. Along New Jersey’s commuter corridor from Hudson County through Essex and into Somerset, Corcoran Sawyer Smith has been testing whether acquisitions can scale a boutique without diluting it – and ...
A market with rising inventory, softening prices, and motivated sellers would typically favor buyers. In southern Denton County, Texas, buyers who like what they see are choosing to wait anyway, hoping something better comes along, and in the process, creating a stalemate that drags out days on market for listings that should be moving. After ...
The usual story about senior housing markets involves inventory, pricing, and interest rates. In Ocean County, New Jersey, one of the state’s densest concentrations of age-restricted communities, a less visible problem may be shaping the market just as much: the people running the communities themselves. Many of Ocean County’s 55-plus developments are self-managed or governed ...
Six years after the pandemic reshaped how and where people work, Chicago’s commercial interior construction market is showing clear signs of recovery. Downtown foot traffic is up, transit ridership is climbing, and building owners are once again investing in their spaces. For firms like Plan North Construction Services, a Chicago-based general contractor specializing in commercial ...
The story of people leaving big cities for Montana took hold during the early 2020s and became familiar shorthand for a certain kind of relocation. What is less understood from outside the state is that the profile of who is arriving in Whitefish has continued to change even as the headline narrative has stayed the ...
The balance of power in Northern Colorado’s housing market has tilted toward buyers, and sellers are feeling it. Buyers are arriving at the table more prepared than ever, and what they are asking for has changed in ways that would have been unusual just a couple of years ago. Sellers who resist these new expectations ...
When a housing market loses its outside buyers, prices feel it. That is the situation unfolding in Topanga Canyon right now, where a series of disruptions over the past two years has filtered the buyer pool down to people who already know the area, and shrunk it considerably. Agents working the canyon say the implications ...
First-time buyers in Conway, Arkansas, are running out of options, and the problem is more structural than cyclical. The forces squeezing entry-level buyers are not temporary, and buyers hoping conditions will ease soon may be waiting a long time. Emily Walter, executive broker and team lead at The Emily Walter Team under RE/MAX Elite, has ...
