The conversation about buying a home in Tucson keeps circling back to interest rates. Rates are too high. Rates might drop. Rates were better two years ago. It is the wrong conversation, and it is costing buyers real money. Tony Ray Baker, owner and team leader at RE/MAX Fine Properties and the agent behind SeeTucsonHomes, ...
Most active real estate investors treat origination fees as a fixed cost of doing business. Each deal, another percentage of the loan amount leaves at closing. But homebldr, a technology-driven investment financing platform, has launched a product with no real equivalent in the market: a financing subscription that eliminates homebldr origination fees entirely for 12 ...
The ESG era is winding down. Politically retreating, commercially discredited, and increasingly abandoned by the institutional investors who championed it, environmental, social, and governance investing has left behind a vacuum and a lesson. The vacuum is a real opportunity. The lesson is harder to sit with: impact language without impact infrastructure does not work, and ...
Investors evaluating secondary and tertiary Midwest markets for multifamily capital deployment tend to screen on population size first. By that measure, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a metro population of approximately 300,000, typically does not make the cut. What that screen misses is a market that has produced consistent rent growth for four decades, near-zero ...
Most renters in Little Rock are waiting for mortgage rates to drop before they consider buying. What they are not calculating is what that wait is actually costing them every month. Jerry Larkowski, Managing Broker at ESQ. Realty Group, LLC in Little Rock, is a dual-licensed attorney and broker who works with both first-time buyers ...
Florida voters will decide in November 2026 whether to dramatically cut property taxes for homesteaded homeowners. The measure has not passed yet. But the deadline that matters most for buyers is not November; it is January 1, 2027. The Mastropieri Group, a luxury real estate brokerage serving Palm Beach and Broward Counties, has been fielding ...
Foreclosure activity in Baltimore County, Maryland is not just rising – it is rising from a starting point that was already severely elevated. According to Justin Mitchell, Founder of Maryland Cash Home Buyers, a Frederick-based direct buyer operating across Maryland’s residential markets, the headline numbers tell part of the story, but the more significant signal ...
The conventional wisdom about foreclosure is that it is an adversarial process – borrower against lender, each side maneuvering for advantage. Jack Miller of Gelt Financial LLC argues that this framing causes borrowers to misread the situation in ways that cost them dearly. With rising rates and softening property values pushing more owners toward default, ...
Study Underscores How Home Performance Shapes the True Cost of Ownership CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 23, 2026 – Pearl, an independent standards and ratings organization that defines and measures home performance, today announced that its Pearl SCORE™ data has powered a new Realtor.com® study quantifying how a home’s performance shapes its total cost of ownership – ...
Most New York homebuyers know they need a mortgage. What far fewer understand is that getting approved for one and being protected if that approval falls apart are two very different things, and the difference comes down to a single clause in the purchase contract. Paykin Law, a New York-based real estate and commercial law ...
Waiting on rates. Chasing a quarter point. Staying loyal to one lender long past the point when that relationship stopped serving you. These are not dramatic errors. They rarely feel like mistakes in the moment. But according to the people who see the consequences play out regularly, they are among the most expensive habits a ...
BUCKS COUNTY, PA, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Tom de Jong, Executive Vice President at Colliers and Founding Principal of the De Jong Self Storage Team, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. De Jong will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on self storage investment, deal mechanics, ...
Accredited investors with millions in net worth routinely make investment decisions they would never make in their primary business. They invest in real estate syndications based on trust in a person rather than verification of facts. Then they wonder why deals underperform. Mor Milo, co-founder and CEO of Relli, works with both operators and investors ...
