Three years ago, buying a home in Citrus County, Florida, meant competing for scarce inventory in a market where sellers had no reason to negotiate. That dynamic has reversed. For buyers, the shift in leverage may matter more than any change in prices. Bruce Brunk, an agent with The Citrus County Dream Team at Keller ...
Year-over-year home price declines near 20 percent in Austin, Texas, have made national news, painting a picture of a market in retreat. But that number blends two very different markets, according to Nitin Kumar, a residential agent and investor with eXp Realty in Austin. One is the established suburbs near Austin’s job centers. The other ...
The conventional assumption is that downsizing seniors and young families shop in different price tiers. In Doylestown, Pennsylvania – the commercial center of Bucks County – those two groups are increasingly circling the same listings, according to Deana Corrigan of The Deana Corrigan Team at Compass. The competition is reshaping how homes get priced, how ...
The math on a fix-and-flip in metro Atlanta looks straightforward on paper: buy a distressed property at a discount, renovate it, sell it at market value, pocket the spread. In practice, the spread is shrinking from both directions. Sellers of distressed properties are asking prices that reflect peak-market expectations rather than current conditions, while construction ...
Listing high and reducing later has long been a default strategy for sellers testing the market. In Pierce County, Washington, that approach is backfiring. Inventory has climbed to roughly 3.36 months; homes that sold in days during 2020 and 2021 now sit for 30, 60, or 90 days, and prices have eased year over year. ...
The stretch of western Los Angeles County running from Woodland Hills through Calabasas has long served as a residential alternative to the city’s more urban corridors – quieter, more suburban, and oriented around families and schools. That identity is changing. Large-scale commercial and mixed-use developments now underway are drawing jobs, retail, and entertainment into the ...
The most competitive segment of the Twin Cities housing market isn’t where most people assume. In the south metro – an area spanning Burnsville, Lakeville, Prior Lake, and surrounding communities – the lower end moves quickly and the upper end has been surprisingly active. The middle of the market is stuck, squeezed by a dynamic ...
Inventory in the Austin, Texas metro has loosened considerably since the pandemic-era frenzy. Buyers browsing online listings could reasonably conclude they have time to deliberate, compare, and negotiate. In the northwest suburbs – communities along the Highway 183 corridor running through Cedar Park, Leander, and Round Rock – that conclusion holds for most of the ...
Most housing markets along the California coast have loosened over the past two years as interest rates climbed and buyer urgency faded. Santa Barbara’s south coast – stretching from Carpinteria through Goleta – has loosened too, but from a starting point so tight that the current inventory level still registers as a seller’s market. With ...
A resale home in Royse City, Texas, has been sitting on the market for over ten months. A nearby resale property closer to downtown Dallas went under contract in 16 days. Both are in the same metro area, served by the same agent. The difference is not location alone – it is what new-construction builders ...
A year ago, newer private lending fund managers were writing offering memorandums with relatively loose language. Today, those same documents read differently, stricter concentration limits, double-underwriting requirements, and pledges of conservative asset allocation that would have seemed unnecessary in a more optimistic climate, according to Scott Ward, owner of The Ward Company and its subsidiaries, ...
In Hampton Roads, Virginia, home to 13 military bases and every branch of service, the question behind a home purchase is not only whether the house works now, but what happens to it when orders arrive. Erin Ward, who leads a residential team at HRVA Homes in Norfolk, says many military buyers in the region ...
When a home is not selling, the instinct is to lower the price. But how a seller reduces matters as much as whether they reduce at all. Across the Philadelphia metro and its surrounding Pennsylvania counties, listings that cut prices in small increments tend to linger, while those that drop in larger, strategically chosen steps ...
Twice in two years, Austin’s residential real estate market has built momentum toward recovery – and twice, external economic disruptions have stalled it. The pattern points to a market not in decline but in a holding pattern shaped more by geopolitical uncertainty than by local fundamentals, according to Brooke Roeder, Principal of the Roeder Group ...
In most real estate transactions, the sequence of financial commitments works against the buyer. Non-refundable due diligence fees, earnest money deposits, inspection costs, and appraisal fees are all paid before the buyer has a clear picture of a property’s actual condition. When problems surface – foundation damage, structural issues, faulty wiring – buyers who walk ...
