Single-family homes in Palm Desert’s gated golf communities are holding value and selling quickly. Condominiums in the same communities are not. The split has less to do with location or club membership than with whether a unit has been renovated, and in a market where three-quarters of owners use their homes only four to five ...
The assumption that higher interest rates have frozen buyers out of the market doesn’t hold up everywhere. In the San Antonio and Texas Hill Country corridor, transactions are happening, but on terms that favor patience and precision over urgency. Prices are declining month over month, inventory is stacking up, and sellers who haven’t adjusted their ...
The accessory dwelling unit market has quietly moved from a niche housing concept to a more mainstream solution. Affordability pressures, an aging demographic, and a wave of supportive local policies are pushing more homeowners and investors to consider what a backyard structure can actually do for them. Peter Anadranistakis, Founder and CEO of OxygenHaus and ...
Not every property type benefits equally from a tight housing market. In Bergen and Hudson Counties, two of the most supply-constrained corridors in the New York metro area, single-family homes and small multifamily buildings are drawing multiple offers and selling briskly. But condos and townhouses are falling behind, weighed down by a double cost squeeze ...
The mortgage industry has long been one of the more paper-heavy corners of real estate. Loan applications move through multiple hands, documents get reviewed and re-reviewed, and data gets entered manually into systems that have been around for decades. Industry research puts the average closing timeline at over 40 days per loan. A growing number ...
If you own a single-family home in South Florida and have been thinking about moving into a condo, this moment tilts heavily in your favor. The friction punishing condo sellers – special assessments, rising HOA fees, and tightening lender requirements – is the same friction that hands buyers unusual negotiating power. In a market where ...
The conventional wisdom says buying a home is always better than renting. Build equity, get the tax break, plant roots. But in the Houston metro area, at least one real estate professional working in residential development is making a different case, one backed by straightforward math that many would-be buyers haven’t run for themselves. The ...
If you are shopping for a home in Michigan right now, you are probably watching mortgage rates. But veteran observers in the Lansing and Grand Rapids markets argue that a different number on your monthly statement deserves more attention: your property tax bill. It has been climbing fast enough to cancel out some of the ...
In the cities east of San Francisco, the condition of a home at listing has become the clearest predictor of how quickly it sells. Renovated properties move within days. Older homes that need work linger far longer. The gap between these two speeds has widened even as buyer demand remains strong, creating a market where ...
Michigan has long marketed itself on affordability, and for good reason. Home prices across the Lansing and Grand Rapids markets remain well below national averages, drawing first-time buyers, investors, and move-up purchasers alike. But with a November ballot measure that could eliminate property taxes now on the horizon, the state’s cost advantage is facing its ...
The Austin metro area has been trading the first and second spot for worst market saturation in the country, according to Batya Porter, a real estate agent and licensed property tax consultant at Horizon Realty in North Austin. The effects go beyond simple price declines. Sellers who purchased between late 2020 and 2024 are frequently ...
For many years, Salisbury and much of the Concord area were known primarily for established neighborhoods, relative affordability, and convenient access to employment centers throughout the greater Charlotte region. Today, those markets are experiencing meaningful change. New residential construction has expanded significantly, national builders are offering financing incentives, and buyers are approaching the market with ...
Inventory in the Frisco and broader North Dallas area is higher than it has been in over fifteen years, according to Rachael Hill, a Luxury Home & Relocation Specialist with Coldwell Banker Apex, Realtors in Frisco, Texas. Yet the buyers who could take advantage of that surplus are largely sitting still – waiting for mortgage ...
For a brief window when mortgage rates hovered near 3 percent, buying a vacation rental condo on Maui was straightforward math. Borrow cheap money for 30 years, collect nightly rental income that comfortably exceeded carrying costs, and build equity in a place you could visit a couple of weeks a year. The numbers worked on ...
Something quiet has been happening in the northern New Jersey housing market. Buyers who spent the past two years waiting for mortgage rates to fall back toward three percent are starting to move anyway, not because rates dropped, but because life did not wait. That shift in buyer psychology may matter more to the near-term ...
