There is a ceiling that most real estate agents hit, and it has nothing to do with their market, their skills, or their work ethic. It has to do with what they spend their time on. The agent who is answering emails, scheduling showings, chasing paperwork, and managing their own calendar is the agent who ...
After several years of pandemic-fueled frenzy, Florida’s Gulf Coast real estate market is settling into something more familiar to long-time practitioners. In Sarasota, that correction is being felt across price points and property types. For those who have worked the market through multiple cycles, it reads less like a slowdown and more like a return ...
Florida has always been a boom-or-bust real estate market, and the post-pandemic correction playing out across Sarasota and Manatee counties is a clear reminder of that pattern. After years of compressed inventory and rapid price appreciation, the market is settling into a rhythm closer to its historical pace – and for buyers and investors who ...
Along the coastline of southeastern Connecticut, a quiet but active corner of the commercial real estate market operates largely outside mainstream industry coverage. Working waterfronts – marinas, boat service centers, marine dealerships, and waterfront mixed-use properties – represent a distinct asset class with its own rules, risks, and buyer pool. For those who understand it, ...
The rental market in Upstate South Carolina has been telling a more complicated story than regional growth headlines suggest. While Greenville consistently ranks among the fastest-growing cities in the country, the day-to-day realities of managing rental properties across the region reveal competing pressures: rising rents alongside rising vacancies, an influx of first-time landlords, and tenants ...
The Washington, D.C., metro area real estate market is navigating an unusual combination of pressures in mid-2026. Federal workforce reductions, persistent interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty have combined to create a market that looks and feels different from recent years. For buyers and sellers trying to time their moves, the signals can be confusing, and ...
As summer 2026 gets underway, the residential real estate market in Southern Westchester County shows little sign of the seasonal slowdown that typically follows Memorial Day. Inventory is gradually increasing, but buyer demand continues to outpace supply, keeping conditions firmly in seller territory across the Sound Shore communities of Larchmont, Mamaroneck, and Rye. For Farrah ...
The Central Florida housing market in mid-2026 looks meaningfully different from the pandemic-era frenzy that defined much of the early 2020s. Inventory is moving more steadily, out-of-state buyers remain active, and a growing number of buyers are finally accepting that historically low interest rates are not coming back. But persistent pricing gaps between seller expectations ...
The narrative around South Florida real estate has grown increasingly complicated in recent years. Headlines swing between stories of pandemic-era price surges and more recent warnings of a cooling market. For agents working across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the reality is more nuanced than either storyline suggests, and the timing matters. With new condo regulations ...
Most people who own a rental property in a market where prices have tripled face the same question: Is it time to sell? In Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, where the average sale price has climbed from roughly $140,000 before the pandemic to around $450,000 today, that question is coming up constantly. What experienced local ...
Selling a home in a market flooded with new construction is hard enough. Selling one when the builders down the street are offering sub-5% interest rates and covering closing costs is harder still. That is the situation resale sellers in Clermont, Florida, are facing right now, and agents working the area say the sellers who ...
Few real estate professionals have the vantage point that comes from navigating a market through multiple complete cycles. Janice Mason, a Luxury Real Estate Advisor with Coastal Properties Group and Forbes Global Properties, has been active in Tampa Bay real estate since 1991. Her perspective spans the pre-Internet era, the 2008 housing collapse, the pandemic ...
Investors looking at upstate New York’s Catskill area as an alternative to the expensive downstate market are arriving with one set of assumptions and finding a different set of facts. The pitch makes sense on paper, lower prices, lower taxes, proximity to New York City. But agents working the market say the gap between what ...
There is a specific kind of buyer that Queens’ new development has not been serving well. They already live in the borough. They have been renting in Long Island City or Astoria for three or four years, they know the neighborhood, and now they want to buy something larger – a three-bedroom, enough space for ...
