The housing slowdown in Southern California is not distributed evenly. In the corridor stretching from Temecula through North County San Diego, homes priced below city-specific thresholds are still drawing multiple offers in their first week. Luxury listings, meanwhile, sit with fewer showings and longer days on market. The result is two distinct markets operating side ...
The prevailing assumption in mid-2026 is that nobody refinances when mortgage rates sit in the mid-sixes (roughly 6.5 percent). According to Ron Vaimberg, president of Ron Vaimberg International, , that assumption is wrong, and it’s costing homeowners money. His mortgage coaching and training firm has worked with over 300,000 originators since 1997. Vaimberg points to ...
Every quarter, mortgage rate forecasts change. Every quarter, buyers who delayed purchases based on those forecasts find themselves no closer to the conditions they were waiting for. According to Ron Vaimberg, president of Ron Vaimberg International, a mortgage training firm that has coached over 300,000 loan originators since 1997, the prediction track record is dismal: ...
In most housing markets, a small shift in mortgage rates changes a monthly payment by a manageable amount. In Orange County, California, where typical purchase prices run well above a million dollars, that same quarter-point shift moves payments by hundreds of dollars a month. According to Jordan Bennett, team lead of Jordan Bennett & Associates ...
The gap between what sells fast and what lingers in Southern California’s inland and coastal submarkets has less to do with location than most buyers assume. In the corridor stretching from Temecula and Murrieta through Fallbrook and down into Oceanside, Carlsbad, and Vista, the dividing line is increasingly about condition and price, not neighborhood prestige ...
Northeast Florida’s housing market carries a four-month supply of inventory, a figure that, by conventional standards, still favors sellers. But within that tight market, a divide is forming between resale properties and new construction that is forcing existing homeowners to rethink how they position a listing. The issue is not a lack of demand. Builders ...
The luxury vacation-home market along Florida’s 30A corridor is splitting into two distinct tiers. Newer, well-built homes in desirable communities are commanding strong prices and attracting buyers quickly. Older homes that need work are sitting. The divergence is reshaping how buyers, sellers, and agents approach a stretch of coastline where every purchase is discretionary. Richard ...
The narrative around residential real estate investors in 2026 is one of retreat. Higher rates, compressed margins, and fewer easy flips have thinned the ranks. But the pullback may say more about how investors were making decisions than about the actual availability of deals, and the distinction matters for anyone still active in the space. ...
For years, institutional real estate portfolios looked roughly the same: heavy allocations to office, industrial, and apartments, with modest exposure to everything else. That composition is now shifting in ways that reflect structural changes in how people live and work and a broader reassessment of what “real estate” means as an asset class. Capital is ...
The commercial real estate market in Greenville, South Carolina’s upstate region, is not frozen, but the velocity of transactions has slowed enough that a different kind of legal work is filling the pipeline. Rather than closing acquisitions and dispositions, local developers are focused on stabilizing their existing portfolios: getting buildings leased, generating cash flow, and ...
In a falling market, real estate investors can adjust. They recalculate timelines, revise budgets, and wait for the bottom. The current environment presents a different problem, one harder to plan around. Across private bridge lending, deal flow hasn’t collapsed so much as stalled, with borrowers and investors sitting on capital they can’t confidently deploy. The ...
Orange County’s residential real estate market has held its value through cycles that punished other Sun Belt markets. But beneath that headline stability, a structural split is forming between single-family homes and condominiums, two segments that used to move in rough tandem. Well-priced single-family listings still draw multiple offers and sell above asking. Condos, meanwhile, ...
The Houston metro area keeps expanding outward, with thousands of new homes rising in communities west, north, and south of the city center. That growth is creating a specific problem for homeowners in the $450,000 to $700,000 range: their properties are competing against brand-new builds that come with lower prices, builder-subsidized mortgage rates, and covered ...
In the stretch of Central Florida running from Kissimmee through St. Cloud and Davenport, new construction is moving faster than existing homes, not because buyers prefer new finishes, but because the economics currently favor it. Builders are covering closing costs and offering better rates that resale sellers cannot match, according to Jose Santana, a Realtor ...
The math is straightforward: a buyer priced out of Orange County can cross into Corona, pick up a single-family home with a yard, and accept a commute in exchange for ownership. That trade has been available for years, but the current market is making it more attractive than usual, not because prices have dropped, but ...
