Many Houston homeowners are facing a sudden spike in monthly housing costs due to sharply higher insurance premiums and property taxes. Even if you haven’t changed anything about your home, you might find yourself paying hundreds more each month than you were a year ago. For landlords, especially those with just one or two properties, ...
Houston’s housing market is following a path distinct from the sharper downturns seen in Austin, Boston, and other major metros. Mark Lee, Co-Founder and Partner at Absolute Properties, points to the city’s economic diversification and steady population growth as key factors that have prevented the severe corrections seen in other markets. Lee observes that housing ...
Scottsdale’s real estate market is being shaped less by local buyers and more by an influx of affluent out-of-state buyers purchasing second homes. According to Kevin Weil, Associate at RE/MAX Excalibur, second-home buyers are providing critical price support, even as other signs point to a slowing market. While many observers focus on primary residence demand ...
Rising interest rates and elevated property prices have disrupted the economics of cash-flow rental investing. Many small investors have left Oregon’s secondary markets or shifted from short-term income strategies to long-term equity plays. During the pandemic, small multifamily investors drove much of the activity in places like Salem-Keizer, Oregon. But that investment approach no longer ...
When graduate students at University of Maryland spend 50 to 76% of their stipends on rent, it signals a market gap that Teddy Abdelmalek and HH Red Stone are uniquely positioned to address. As universities scramble to house graduate students after years of neglecting this segment, private operators face a critical question: is this their ...
Younger buyers are delaying homeownership longer than prior generations, creating ripple effects that threaten market stability in growing mid-size cities. In Conway, Arkansas, one of the state’s fastest-growing cities, first-time buyers once made up nearly half of all home sales. Over the past 18 months, that share has dropped sharply, according to Richard Henley, broker ...
A new project in Houston’s Acres Homes neighborhood shows how private builders and nonprofits can deliver affordable housing without government subsidies. Kevan Shelton, co-founder and CEO of Park Street Homes, led the effort in partnership with the Houston Area Urban League, delivering 23 affordable homes and a community center through a deal structure that requires ...
In Monterey County, California, the housing affordability crisis is driven less by mortgage rates than by stagnant wages and soaring home prices. Bryan Hermanson, broker and owner of California Mortgage & Realty, says that most workers in the region’s main industries earn between $40,000 and $50,000 a year, far below what is needed to qualify ...
Better Living Realty broker reports escalation clauses returning as just three affordable homes sit on market in the entire Middlebury. Connecticut buyers are pulling a strategic weapon from the pandemic-era playbook: escalation clauses that automatically outbid competitors without overpaying. Rob Marucci, broker-owner of Better Living Realty LLC serving Waterbury and Middlebury, says the aggressive tactic ...
Stress in commercial real estate lending is not distributed evenly across the banking sector. Institutions with assets between $2 billion and $50 billion are generating a disproportionate share of distressed asset liquidation mandates in the Midwest and Southeast, according to Edward Durnil, President and CEO of Tranzon Asset Advisors. The pattern suggests that a lender’s ...
Rising construction costs are forcing affordable housing developers in Florida to pause or abandon projects that were financially viable just 18 months ago. Miles Alexander III, Founder and Managing Partner at Alexander Goshen, says higher material prices, persistent labor shortages, and elevated interest rates are making it difficult to bring new affordable units to market. ...
In Northern New Jersey, tighter bank lending standards have steered developers away from speculative single-family homes and toward projects with reliable rental income. According to Robert Abbott, President and Broker of Record at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Abbott Realtors, banks in Bergen and Rockland counties are now reluctant to finance projects without a built-in rental income ...
Relli’s COO explains why real estate syndications desperately needed the same analytical tools that stock investors take for granted. Real estate has always been touted as one of the best investments, but it’s also one of the least accessible when it comes to education and comparison tools. Ross Iannarelli, Co-founder and COO of Relli, built ...
WASHINGTON, March 4, 2026 – The Broker Action Coalition (BAC), fresh off its landmark victory with the Homebuyers Privacy Protection Act which goes into effect this week, is launching a week-long fundraising campaign targeting individual mortgage brokers across the country. The campaign, running from March 2-6 aims to build sustainable grassroots support for the organization’s ...
The IRS published a new edition of its Cost Segregation Audit Techniques Guide on February 6, 2025, and the industry is still catching up to what it means. The update expanded the guide’s use of the Amerisouth case, a 2012 tax court ruling the IRS won largely because the taxpayer stopped responding mid-litigation. IRS examiners ...
