Debt funds in multifamily lending have multiplied in recent years, expanding the availability of capital on paper. But their highly specific underwriting requirements regarding property age, deal size, and business plan stage are creating a fragmented market in which matching the right borrower to the right lender has become a specialized skill. On the surface, ...
The mortgage rate lock narrative has become a catch-all explanation for tight inventory, but on-the-ground evidence suggests it applies to a far narrower slice of the market than conventional wisdom assumes. The rate-lock story has become one of the most repeated explanations in residential real estate: millions of homeowners are sitting on 2.5% and 3% ...
Hurricane Sandy’s rebuild cycle didn’t just repair a coastal market — it replaced it with a fundamentally different one, and the effects on pricing, inventory, and investment opportunity are still unfolding more than a decade later. When Hurricane Sandy struck the New Jersey Shore in 2012, it left behind a landscape of damaged and destroyed ...
In competitive markets where homes sell in under a week, and buyers routinely bid above asking price, a friction point is emerging that neither buyers nor sellers can fully control: the appraisal. According to Paula Koontz, Team Lead and Realtor at The Koontz Team, Keller Williams Classic Properties Realty, appraisal shortfalls are becoming one of ...
Buyers’ appetite for major renovation projects in Manhattan’s luxury townhouse market has narrowed sharply, as project timelines and contractor costs have stretched far beyond what buyers are willing to absorb. The calculus around buying a townhouse in need of significant work has changed dramatically. What was once considered a straightforward value-add opportunity has become a ...
National headlines about a cooling housing market may be accurate in parts of the country, but they don’t reflect what is happening on the ground in New Jersey’s Somerset County. While markets like Phoenix, Austin, and Chicago have experienced notable corrections, this corner of the Northeast has remained firmly in seller’s market territory, and the ...
After years of clear seller’s and buyer’s markets, Charlotte’s residential real estate market has become harder to read. Some homes sell within hours. Others sit for months. The difference often comes down to the individual property rather than broader market conditions. This marks a departure from the predictable patterns that defined the market through the ...
New York City’s townhouse market is shifting in ways that reward preparation over promotion. While renovated properties are moving fast, sometimes without ever reaching public listings, unrenovated homes are sitting longer as buyers pull back from the cost and complexity of major construction projects. The divide is sharpening, and the brokers navigating it most effectively ...
Rising property taxes in Vermont are compounding an already severe affordability crisis, creating a two-sided squeeze that is pricing young buyers out of ownership while forcing landlords to raise rents — leaving an entire generation with no affordable path in either direction. A Crisis Within a Crisis The national conversation about housing affordability tends to ...
With 361 residential sales above $10 million recorded in 2025, South Florida’s ultra-luxury segment is running at roughly twice the pace of five years ago — and the buyer profile bears little resemblance to the speculative market that collapsed in 2008. The “Bubble” Narrative Outside South Florida, the reaction to Miami-area luxury prices is often ...
Inheriting property can feel like an unexpected gift — a tangible piece of someone’s life, and often a significant financial asset. But the transition from estate to sale is rarely straightforward. Families navigating inherited real estate face a distinct set of pressures: multiple decision-makers, emotional attachment, unfamiliar processes, and a market that rarely meets expectations. ...
Westchester County, New York, has consistently outperformed comparable suburban markets through multiple economic downturns, from the 1988 stock market correction to the 2008 financial crisis. Its position just north of New York City, combined with access to strong public schools and relatively short commute times, has made it a reliable destination for families relocating from ...
Fort Worth, Texas, has ranked among the fastest-growing cities in the United States, adding roughly 20,000 residents annually over the past two decades. That pace of growth has driven up housing costs, strained permitting systems, and exposed the limits of aging infrastructure across the city — pressures especially concentrated in District 9, which spans downtown, ...
Vail Valley’s real estate market has cooled, not crashed, but the cracks are showing. After years of frenzied pandemic buying that sent home prices soaring and inventory plummeting, Eagle County is now a market where homes sit, buyers walk, and the short-term rental income that sold so many on ownership is quietly falling short of ...
While home prices are easing across much of the United States in 2026, buyers in Westchester County are living a completely different reality. Properties here are routinely closing between 107% and 115% of their asking price, bidding wars involve dozens of competing offers, and inventory remains far too thin to give buyers any leverage. The ...
