Six cities in the southeast corner of the Phoenix metro are in a seller’s market. A short drive south, in Maricopa, inventory has accumulated to a degree that could take years to absorb. The difference has less to do with demand, which remains relatively healthy across both areas, and more to do with where new ...
In Philadelphia’s residential market, the neighborhoods generating the most buzz are not necessarily the ones where buyers will see the strongest returns. Buyers willing to look past the most hyped areas and hold for at least five to seven years may do better in the less prominent blocks ringing Center City, according to Ariel Morgenstein, ...
Kootenai County’s housing market splits cleanly by price, and the split reveals something less obvious than typical supply-and-demand math: the fastest-moving homes and the slowest-moving homes are being shaped by two entirely different sets of buyers. Cody Fenske, who leads Apex Realty Partners with EXP Realty in Kootenai County, works primarily with out-of-state buyers and ...
Thousands of homes burned in Pacific Palisades. The neighborhood is mid-rebuild, partially a ghost town, and priced roughly 20% below where it stood before the fire. In most residential markets, those conditions would signal distress. In Palisades, they are attracting a specific kind of capital: investors buying single-family homes at a discount, renting them for ...
Philadelphia’s residential market has entered a period where the margin for error on listing price has narrowed considerably. Properties priced at market value and presented well are still moving within days. Properties priced even slightly above what the market will bear are sitting, and the longer they sit, the harder they become to sell. That ...
In a metro area long defined by the stability of federal employment, the Washington, D.C. real estate market is splitting along lines that track closely with buyer mobility. Single-family homes in the District’s upper northwest neighborhoods are still selling quickly. Condos in historically strong areas like Dupont Circle and Logan Circle are sitting. And roughly ...
Philadelphia’s residential market has long been known for its relative price stability, modest gains in good years, modest declines in bad ones. But that evenness is masking a widening gap between two buyer pools operating under very different conditions. Homes priced between $700,000 and above a million dollars are moving faster than properties in the ...
Most housing developers treat infrastructure as a line item. For the Tohono O’odham Nation in Southern Arizona, the second-largest land-based tribe in the United States, with a reservation roughly the size of Connecticut, infrastructure regularly consumes up to 50% of total project costs. That figure reshapes every assumption about what it costs to build affordable ...
Investors looking at affordable properties in Chicago’s south suburbs are running into an obstacle that does not show up in any listing: several villages have rewritten their rental standards in ways that effectively bar new investors from renting out properties within village limits, according to Aaron Gaines, a Realtor with Keller Williams Preferred Realty who ...
A growing acquisition strategy among small real estate investors in Texas involves taking over someone else’s mortgage payment without ever assuming the loan itself. It is called a “subject-to” purchase, and insurance professionals who work with these investors say the financial exposure on both sides – for the original homeowner and the new investor – ...
For years, the national conversation about real estate migration has centered on Sun Belt destinations. A different pattern is forming in western Pennsylvania. Pittsburgh’s combination of affordable housing, healthcare employment, and a growing tech sector is pulling buyers from states like Utah, Nevada, and California, not as a temporary relocation trend, but as a deliberate ...
Chicago’s south suburban housing market presents an unusual tension: demand remains steady, appreciation runs between 3 and 5 percent annually, and inventory stays tight across price points. Yet within that same market, a growing number of homeowners are being forced to sell, not because values have dropped, but because property tax increases have made their ...
For the past several years, Chicago’s South Side dominated new construction activity in the city’s multi-unit investment market. That momentum is now shifting west, and the catalyst is a single infrastructure project large enough to redirect capital flows across the city. The 1901 Project, a multi-year, $7 billion development planned around the United Center on ...
Raw land has spent most of the last few years as a quiet inflation hedge, a finite, tangible asset that investors treat as reliable protection against inflation because the cost of land tends to rise alongside the cost of everything else. Rural land prices in particular held firm through 2025 and into 2026, with no ...
Banks price foreclosure homes to attract owner-occupants, but most of those homes cannot pass the appraisals that owner-occupants need to get a mortgage. The result, according to Janet Knopp, Principal Broker / Agent at Capital Region Preferred Properties LLC, is a market where REO properties sit in limbo, wanted by two buyer types but workable ...
