The conventional wisdom about foreclosure is that it is an adversarial process – borrower against lender, each side maneuvering for advantage. Jack Miller of Gelt Financial LLC argues that this framing causes borrowers to misread the situation in ways that cost them dearly. With rising rates and softening property values pushing more owners toward default, ...
Most buyers start their Florida Keys home search online. They browse listings, fall in love with the water, and contact an agent ready to buy somewhere in the Keys. The problem, according to Sandy Tuttle, is that “somewhere in the Keys” is not actually a useful starting point. Tuttle is the founder/owner of Island Welcome ...
Study Underscores How Home Performance Shapes the True Cost of Ownership CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 23, 2026 – Pearl, an independent standards and ratings organization that defines and measures home performance, today announced that its Pearl SCORE™ data has powered a new Realtor.com® study quantifying how a home’s performance shapes its total cost of ownership – ...
Real estate inventory data in New York’s Hudson Valley may be overstating how constrained the market actually is for buyers, according to Vicki Stent, a licensed real estate salesperson with Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty. Stent says that even during periods when headline inventory numbers pointed to shortage conditions, she was consistently finding suitable properties ...
Few real estate markets in greater Los Angeles have faced as many compounding pressures in recent years as Topanga Canyon. A landslide blocked canyon access from Santa Monica and the Westside for three months in 2024. A new disruption came with the Palisades Fire in January 2025. Rising insurance costs added yet another layer of ...
When homes sit unsold for months in a market with rising inventory, the instinct is to blame interest rates or buyer hesitation. Michelle Chase, Team Leader at The Michelle Chase Team with Home Wise Realty Group, points to a different culprit: agents who take listings at prices they know are too high. Chase has spent ...
The investment case for beachfront condos on Marco Island looks compelling on the surface: a resort island where the seasonal population swells from 17,000 to over 60,000 people, a chronic shortage of hotel inventory, and strong demand from visitors seeking Gulf views and beach access. But a significant portion of the condo inventory on the ...
The idea that rising home prices benefit everyone in a housing market is getting harder to defend. What real estate professionals are seeing in markets like San Luis Obispo County tells a more complicated story, one where the same price appreciation that rewards longtime owners is systematically locking out everyone else. Hal Sweasey, broker and ...
Pasco County, Florida, has a reputation problem. For years, people who knew the Tampa Bay area thought of it as farmland, aging homes, and not much else. That picture is nearly a decade old, but it persists, and for buyers still acting on it, the gap between perception and reality is closing in ways that ...
Ask someone from Tampa or Clearwater about Pasco County, and the answer has historically been predictable: old, rural, farmland, nothing going on. According to Cory Byrd, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker F.I. Grey & Son Residential, Inc., who grew up in the Tampa-Clearwater area before relocating to Pasco, that perception was once grounded in reality ...
Sussex County, Delaware, is frequently cited as one of the most tax-friendly places to live in the United States. Property taxes are among the lowest in the nation, and the overall cost of living compares favorably to neighboring states like New Jersey and Maryland. Yet according to Dustin Parker, Founder and CEO of The Parker ...
The South Florida real estate market has long attracted a diverse mix of buyers: retirees seeking year-round sunshine, international investors looking for a stable place to park capital, and more recently, a wave of financial and technology sector professionals drawn by the region’s favorable tax environment. But as mid-2026 approaches, rising insurance costs, tightening condo ...
The East Bay real estate market in mid-2026 is telling two very different stories depending on price point. At the entry level, job anxiety and affordability pressures are keeping cautious buyers on the sidelines. At the upper end, wealth generated by the AI boom and a rising stock market is pushing demand well past recent ...
The pandemic-era real estate frenzy that swept mountain and resort communities across the American West has largely subsided, and markets like Whitefish, Montana, are now navigating a more measured reality. After years of rapid price appreciation, multiple-offer situations, and record-low days on market, buyers and sellers in Flathead County are recalibrating expectations on both sides ...
As Miami’s urban core continues attracting headlines for luxury condo sales and out-of-state migration, a quieter but steady trend is taking shape roughly 20 miles northwest. Pembroke Pines, a Broward County suburb that once served primarily as a bedroom community, is drawing a different kind of buyer, one seeking space, accessibility, and long-term stability over ...
