The standard advice for first-time rental investors sounds sensible: start small, buy one property, get your footing, then grow. But some experienced investors and the agents who work with them argue that single-property ownership is actually the riskiest way to enter the rental market, not the safest. Shirley Weems, a Realtor with Waterman Real Estate, ...
Something unusual is happening in the Southwest Florida housing market in mid-2026: the more expensive the home, the faster it tends to sell. That pattern runs counter to what most people expect from a market that has been cooling since the pandemic peak, and it has real implications for anyone trying to buy or sell ...
Florida’s insurance costs have become one of the loudest reasons people cite for avoiding the state’s housing market. The concern is real – premiums have climbed sharply, and flood zone designations have made some properties genuinely difficult to insure at any reasonable price. But builders and contractors working in the market point to a distinction ...
Small investors eyeing the northern Indianapolis suburbs in 2026 are often looking for the wrong opportunity. The search for a quick flip, buy distressed, renovate, sell at a profit, runs into a market where prices are already strong and undervalued properties are scarce. What the data and experienced observers on the ground suggest is that ...
When housing inventory is this tight, buying land and building from scratch can look like a logical workaround. In the Hudson Valley, the math on that strategy is harder than most buyers expect, and one factor that rarely shows up in early conversations is the tax treatment of new construction. A Two-Part Cost Problem Brokers ...
In the market for self-employed borrowers, the best rate isn’t always what wins the loan. Often, it’s whichever lender gets there first. When a broker is working with a freelancer, a small business owner, or a real estate investor seeking a mortgage, that borrower’s loan application often goes out to several lenders at once. In ...
A three-day investment summit in Panama City revealed that American investors considering international real estate aren’t pursuing a single strategy. Multiple development approaches across different geographic zones and price points appeal to fundamentally different investor profiles – and all are finding traction simultaneously. The Invest Panama Summit (May 28-30, 2026) brought twelve investors from across ...
Investors evaluating secondary and tertiary Midwest markets for multifamily capital deployment tend to screen on population size first. By that measure, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a metro population of approximately 300,000, typically does not make the cut. What that screen misses is a market that has produced consistent rent growth for four decades, near-zero ...
Most renters in Little Rock are waiting for mortgage rates to drop before they consider buying. What they are not calculating is what that wait is actually costing them every month. Jerry Larkowski, Managing Broker at ESQ. Realty Group, LLC in Little Rock, is a dual-licensed attorney and broker who works with both first-time buyers ...
For thirty years, Mike Simon worked inside the real estate services industry. He watched title reps, loan officers, and insurance professionals buy one data platform after another, load CRMs with historical MLS transactions and agent histories, and then mostly ignore them. Not because the data was bad. Because data, on its own, does not tell ...
OVERLAND PARK, KS, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Logan Freeman, Managing Broker of Midwest CRE Advisors, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Freeman will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on edge data center site selection, stranded power capacity, brownfield industrial conversion, and industrial outdoor storage across ...
TUCSON, AZ, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Tony Ray Baker, Realtor and Team Leader at REMAX Fine Properties, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Tony Ray will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on residential real estate across Tucson, Oro Valley, Marana, Sahuarita, Catalina, Vail and Green ...
There is a line that Courtney Poulos, Founder of SERHANT. CA and Team Lead of ACME | SERHANT. in Los Angeles, used to describe the state of her profession: “We have a mirror problem.” She is not talking about vanity. She is talking about how real estate agents are perceived, and how much responsibility the ...
In a market where inventory is tight and every listing carries real stakes, agents are looking beyond the standard marketing playbook. Professional photography, virtual tours, and social media posts have become table stakes. What’s shifting is where agents are allocating their remaining budget, and a growing number are turning to streaming, otherwise known as connected ...
