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 ...
The counties north of Manhattan, Rockland, Westchester, Orange, Putnam, and Dutchess in New York, plus Bergen and Passaic in New Jersey, function as a single interconnected housing market for buyers leaving the city. But what begins as a search within a 30-mile radius frequently stretches to 50 miles or more, driven by limited inventory and ...
The conventional narrative in mid-2026 is that elevated interest rates have frozen refinance activity. Loan officers repeat it to each other, and it shapes how they spend their days – focused almost exclusively on purchase business while assuming nobody wants to refinance at current rates. That narrative runs counter to a figure cited from recent ...
For a growing share of American households, staying in an apartment isn’t a holding pattern before homeownership. It’s a deliberate financial decision – one driven by math that has shifted sharply against buyers in recent years, according to Chamari De Silva, Director of Marketing at Renew, a renewal, retention, and management platform for multifamily operators. ...
Housing markets across the U.S. are splitting into two distinct stories in 2026, with high-end demand holding steady while entry-level segments cool under mounting affordability pressure. Houston illustrates this national divide with unusual clarity. Houston’s housing market is not one market. At $1.2 million and above, properties move quickly, driven by corporate relocations and executives ...
Inventory in central Los Angeles keeps growing, but the buyer pool is not growing with it. In neighborhoods like Koreatown, downtown LA, and surrounding submarkets, properties sit longer, open houses draw fewer visitors, and verbal offers come in well below asking – only to evaporate before negotiations begin, according to David Shin, a Realtor with ...
A home that would have drawn 15 offers in a weekend three years ago now sits for 60 to 120 days or longer in the Scottsdale area, and according to Brad Kimmelman, Team Leader, Senior Global Real Estate Advisor with The Homanity Team at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, the listing itself is rarely the ...
Two homes list in Houston’s western suburbs in the same week. One is priced at $550,000. The other at $1.25 million. The cheaper home sits for 90 days. The expensive one sells over asking with multiple offers. That split, counterintuitive on its surface, is what Bryan Lillis, team lead at Luxe Realty Houston, describes as ...
Real estate standoffs usually resolve themselves, prices drift, expectations adjust, and transactions eventually clear the backlog. In California’s Coachella Valley, some sellers are skipping that process altogether: rather than cut prices to move a stalled listing, they’re pulling it off the market and waiting out the slow summer season instead. The shift reflects a broader ...
The conventional path to closing a commercial land deal in Texas, lender underwriting, extended documentation, months of back-and-forth, has become slow enough in the current rate environment that buyers and sellers are finding workarounds. In the Dallas-Fort Worth metro’s outlying counties, where land transactions for development, ranches, and commercial projects regularly run into six- and ...
The Kansas City metro area has a median home price around $450,000 and enough inventory variety to serve both first-time buyers and out-of-state relocators. But the factor determining whether a listing sells in a week or sits for more than 30 days isn’t price, neighborhood, or even school district; it’s the condition of the home ...
The assumption that a metro area’s housing market moves as a single unit rarely holds up under scrutiny, but in Scottsdale and Paradise Valley, Arizona, the divergence between price segments has become unusually pronounced. According to Brad Kimmelman, Team Leader and Senior Global Real Estate Advisor with The Hômanity Team at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, homes priced ...
