The Monmouth County residential real estate market is navigating a stretch of competing pressures — rising mortgage rates, historically low inventory, and buyer hesitation that is reshaping how homes are priced, marketed, and sold. The conditions are not unique to New Jersey, but local factors are creating dynamics specific to this market that go beyond ...
South Florida’s real estate market has long attracted buyers seeking warm weather and a lower tax burden. As of mid-2026, the forces reshaping the region go well beyond lifestyle appeal. Political migration, corporate relocation, and pending tax legislation are creating conditions that reward informed buyers and penalize those who move on assumptions alone. Marina Bartashnik, ...
Private real estate has always demanded a particular kind of patience — the kind that isn’t really a choice. When you invest in a traditional syndication (a private deal where multiple investors pool their capital into a single property or portfolio), your capital is locked until the general partner decides to sell the asset or ...
New homes are going up across Monmouth County, New Jersey, but they are not putting a dent in the area’s persistent housing shortage. Kyle Golden, a Realtor at CENTURY 21 Thomson & Co., says the county’s supply problem is not a temporary market cycle but a permanent land constraint that new construction cannot meaningfully overcome, ...
The Hampton Roads metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia sits at an unusual crossroads. It is home to roughly 17 military installations, one of the East Coast’s busiest ports, miles of Atlantic coastline, and a city, Virginia Beach, that holds the distinction of being the largest municipality in Virginia by both population and land mass. Yet ...
While national headlines focus on affordability challenges and rate-locked sellers, Cincinnati is telling a different story. For agents working the market daily, the city offers a combination of low entry prices, strong rental yields, and a buyer base that is moving up the economic ladder rather than being priced out of it. Flor de Maria ...
As residential markets across the Southeast cool in 2026, one small coastal community in South Carolina is posting sharply different results. Pawleys Island, situated between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, is seeing a year-over-year appreciation of 15.6%, a figure that stands in sharp contrast to broader regional softness. The reasons lie in the area’s physical constraints, ...
After more than a decade of reinvestment in formerly industrial and overlooked neighborhoods, Buffalo’s real estate market is entering a new phase. Infrastructure projects, rising property taxes, and institutional purchasing activity are all converging at once, creating both opportunity and friction for buyers and sellers across Erie County. For agents working on the ground, navigating ...
The New Jersey shore market has long attracted buyers needing more space than Manhattan offers or simply drawn to coastal living. But in Monmouth County today, the gap between perception and reality is wider than many outsiders recognize. Inventory remains low, competition is fierce, and buyers winning deals increasingly share one trait: cash. Kyle Golden, ...
For most of the past decade, commercial real estate investors operated with a safety net they didn’t always recognize as one. When borrowing costs sit near zero, the math on a marginal deal can still pencil out — weak cash flow gets papered over by cheap debt, and rising property values reward patience even when ...
Most American cities follow a predictable economic distribution. Santa Fe, according to one long-tenure market observer, does not, and that structural anomaly has direct consequences for who can buy, who gets priced out, and why the upper tier of the market keeps expanding. An Inverted Distribution Chris Webster, CEO and publisher of Leading Estates of ...
When Space Center funding contracted around 2008, Florida’s Space Coast didn’t just experience a downturn; it experienced one of the more severe regional collapses in a state already among the hardest-hit nationally. The cause, according to Lindsay Sanger Norton, Managing Broker and Owner of The Solutions Group at Real Brokerage, was straightforward: the entire local ...
When a house at 25 Burnett Terrace in Maplewood, NJ hit the market listed at $800,000 and closed at $1,188,000, it became the highest percent-over-asking sale in Maplewood year to date. That number – 48.5% above list price – sounds like luck. It was not. Mark Slade of Mark Slade Homes spent weeks preparing that ...
Student housing operators treat the $1,000 per bed mark as a psychological milestone. Cross it, and suddenly you’re in premium territory. Stay below it, and you’re accessible. But according to industry veterans, that’s not how students actually make decisions. Teddy Abdelmalek, Senior Vice President of Business Development at HH Red Stone, argues that students don’t ...
Along the Jersey Shore, a steady migration is reshaping the residential real estate market. Ocean and Monmouth Counties have become a destination not just for summer visitors, but for a growing wave of buyers from New York, North Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania – many of them cashing out of higher-priced markets and finding that their ...
