In a city where 95 to 98 percent of residential transactions involve homes roughly a century old, new construction doesn’t need to do much to stand out. But a small group of Chicago builders is pushing well past that low bar – delivering all-electric, high-performance homes into neighborhoods with significant vacant land, and finding that ...
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex added over a million residents in the last decade, more than any other metro area in the United States, according to Yaron Yashar, a Realtor with Fathom Realty who leads the Dallas Homes Group. But population growth alone has not insulated the housing market from inventory buildup. In August 2026, DFW ...
When investors evaluate an industrial property, they typically see one rent figure attached to one building. The yard – the paved or unpaved land surrounding that building – gets bundled into the deal as though it were incidental. At firms specializing in industrial outdoor storage, analysts argue this is a mispricing. The land itself generates ...
Lenders lose money on small mortgages. That single economic fact prices out the buyers who can least afford to be priced out – not through bias, but through arithmetic that treats a $100,000 loan the same as a $500,000 one in processing costs. According to Pavan Agarwal, President & CEO of Sun West Mortgage Company, ...
The conventional wisdom about empty nesters is simple: the kids leave, you sell the big house, you move somewhere smaller. In the Austin market right now, the opposite is happening. Retirees and late-career buyers are purchasing larger homes on the city’s outskirts – not to fill rooms with furniture, but to bring adult children and ...
The typical Austin homebuyer profile has shifted. While the city’s reputation as a tech magnet still holds, a growing segment of the market is driven not by young professionals chasing career growth but by empty nesters and retirees assembling households under one roof, buying homes large enough to accommodate adult children and grandchildren who aren’t ...
When property taxes rise sharply in a market where rents cannot keep pace, landlords do not simply absorb the cost. They sell. In Montgomery County, Texas, that pattern is accelerating. It is creating a ripple effect: renters are displaced, the market floods with additional inventory, and buyers gain leverage. Maria Borrego, a Realtor with 20 ...
Across Polk County, Florida, days on market have stretched into the 90s and sellers are granting concessions on the majority of transactions. The surface data looks soft. But below $200,000, according to Jen Lay, team leader and listing specialist at The Lay Group with eXp Realty in Lakeland, the market operates under entirely different conditions ...
The mortgage industry’s cost structure has a built-in exclusion mechanism. The Mortgage Bankers Association estimated the average cost to originate a mortgage loan in 2024 at approximately $9,000 per loan once labor, technology, compliance, and overhead are counted, and other industry benchmarking puts the figure even higher, with credit unions reporting a per-loan average closer ...
The Washington, D.C. metro housing market has long benefited from a structural floor most American cities lack: a permanent federal employment base, a growing tech sector, and a steady pipeline of military and government-adjacent relocations. But that stability hasn’t insulated the region from a growing tension between what sellers believe their homes are worth and ...
The U.S. residential market has been stuck at roughly 4.1 million annualized transactions for four consecutive years, according to Craig McClelland, a partner at McClelland & Hahn Consulting who advises enterprise-scale real estate, proptech, and fintech companies on structural business changes. That figure becomes a structural problem when measured against the infrastructure many brokerages erected ...
In much of the country, residential real estate has shifted toward balance or outright buyer advantage over the past year. Parts of North Jersey haven’t followed that script. Some towns in Passaic, Morris, and Bergen counties are still operating with two to two-and-a-half months of inventory, well below the six months that typically signals equilibrium. ...
Industrial outdoor storage has spent the past few years pulling in more institutional capital than almost any other niche in commercial real estate. The sector is now estimated at roughly $218 billion, up from about $200 billion in 2025, nearly 9% growth in a single year, with transaction volume reaching $14–16 billion in 2025, up ...
Many first-time buyers in San Antonio are following the same strategy: wait for lower mortgage rates, then buy. But that math may be missing a critical variable. The concessions and builder incentives available today exist precisely because the buyer pool is thin. When rates drop and more buyers enter the market, those perks disappear, and ...
Every spring, a fresh wave of buyers floods the North Jersey housing market. By August, many have quit, outbid repeatedly, watching homes sell for tens of thousands over asking, and deciding to try again next year. That annual attrition creates a quieter window in the fall. Not a buyer’s market, but a measurably less competitive ...
