Jeff Biebuyck of Frontgate Real Estate on Surviving the Slow Seasons Real estate is one of the few careers where you can feel like a top performer and financially stretched in the same morning. For agents navigating a down market, income volatility is not a possibility, it is a pattern. Jeff Biebuyck, co-founder of the ...
Investor visa qualifications are now a major factor in property purchases in Panama. This trend has created a buyer segment that operates outside traditional real estate norms, says Jeffrey Barton, Managing Director of Punta Pacifica Realty. Panama’s real estate market is seeing more buyers motivated by securing legal residency than by rental income or long-term ...
Jeff Barton, Managing Director of Punta Pacifica Realty, says new pre-construction developments in Panama are priced between $3,500 and $5,000 per square meter, about 40% higher than resale units built between 2010 and 2020. Despite this steep premium, buyers are increasingly choosing new construction, motivated by factors that go well beyond traditional price-per-square-meter calculations. “New ...
The restoration of 100% bonus depreciation through 2029 has triggered a surge of out-of-state investors buying Florida short-term rentals without visiting them. This trend is changing buyer profiles and motivations in Gulf Coast markets. The Invisible Buyer Wave Florida’s short-term rental market is attracting investors who buy properties without visiting them. These buyers are motivated ...
Brooklyn’s townhouse market is seeing a noticeable change in who is buying and how they use these properties. Townhouses, once marketed mainly as single-family homes, are now increasingly bought to house multiple generations of the same family. Tali Berzak, a Compass realtor working in Bedford-Stuyvesant and nearby neighborhoods, says this shift reflects how families are ...
For the past five years, Westchester and Yonkers have become the next step for New York City residents who can no longer afford Manhattan or the outer boroughs. Data supports this story: prices in Yonkers have climbed 6 to 11 percent year over year, with some neighborhoods appreciating even faster. However, beneath these headline numbers ...
Connecticut’s shoreline properties follow a different economic logic than the rest of the state’s residential market. Most homes are bought and sold based on price trends and market cycles. Waterfront properties, however, are increasingly purchased with the intention of being held for generations. This long-term view is fueling persistent price premiums that traditional market models ...
A new wave of international buyers using visa programs is reshaping Florida’s residential real estate market. These buyers, often leveraging significant capital and complex structures, are providing price stability even as domestic sales slow. Florida’s Buyer Pool Shifts Toward International Capital The makeup of Florida’s home buyers has changed rapidly in the past year, according ...
A West Palm Beach broker argues that combining real estate, development, and design expertise creates advantages in evaluating and marketing high-end properties that traditional agents cannot match. For decades, real estate brokerage has relied on a generalist approach, with agents expected to handle a wide range of property types and price points. But in West ...
Ultra-luxury residential markets operate according to economic signals that differ markedly from those driving mainstream housing, creating a distinct real estate economy that Federal Reserve policy barely influences. While most economists and housing analysts focus on mortgage rates and their impact on home sales, a significant segment of the market remains almost entirely unaffected by ...
Darwin Stephens explains how luxury high-rise condos are replacing single-family teardowns in Dallas’s most prestigious neighborhoods, and buyers moving to the city without the right strategy are paying for it. Dallas is shifting vertically. Multi-family high-rise developments are emerging across the city, rental prices in luxury towers are breaching $10,000 to $11,000 per month, and ...
Drive through Greenville, South Carolina, and you’ll see cranes, new storefronts, and neighborhoods that didn’t exist five years ago. But if you want to buy land in the city itself, options are nearly gone. Greenville has run out of developable land, and that scarcity is pushing builders, investors, and homebuyers into surrounding areas at a ...
Florida’s coastal real estate market is moving into a new phase as inventory levels rise and buyers become more selective. Nowhere is this more evident than in Vero Beach, a barrier island community situated between the Atlantic Ocean and the Intracoastal Waterway. After years of pandemic-fueled scarcity, the market is adjusting to a landscape where ...
While much of the country faces housing market uncertainty, northern Bergen County remains one of the most resilient markets in the region. Local data and agent reports show a sharp contrast between the county’s continued strength and the broader national slowdown, with several structural factors keeping demand high and inventory tight. Inventory Shortage Remains the ...
Just a few years ago, Spartanburg, South Carolina, was often dismissed by real estate professionals as too undeveloped and too distant from Greenville’s activity to attract serious growth. Today, that perception has changed. Land prices are rising in the area, national and local builders are buying up property, and the city has emerged as the ...
