Short-term rentals made small-scale landlording look easy for years. Buy a house, list it on Airbnb, collect nightly rates that dwarf a traditional lease payment. But in Houston, experienced brokers are now steering investor clients away from that model entirely, and toward a strategy called co-sharing that trades flashy nightly rates for something harder to ...
Small commercial property owners have spent the past few years hearing that insurance is getting harder to secure and more expensive across the board. For strip mall operators, warehouse landlords, and retail building investors, the assumption has been that coverage will only keep tightening. According to Andrew Kowalske, Chief Product Officer at Blitz Insurance, the ...
The Housing Choice Voucher Program, commonly known as Section 8, has always had structural demand behind it: roughly 2.2 million low-income households currently receive rental assistance through the program, while only about a quarter of eligible households actually get it due to funding limits, leaving long waiting lists in most major metros. What’s changed more ...
Balanced market data can mask what’s actually happening on the ground. In Cypress, Texas, one of northwest Houston’s fastest-growing suburbs, the numbers through July 2026 show stable pricing and no clear advantage for buyers or sellers. But according to Andrea Curran, Team Leader of The Andrea Curran Team at Compass, something shifted around the first ...
In lower Westchester County, New York, the supply-demand imbalance that defined the pandemic-era housing market has not corrected. At the million-dollar price point in White Plains, the county’s urban center, homes are moving in nine to twelve days. The driver is not speculation or pandemic migration. It is a structural relationship between Manhattan’s cost of ...
Seller concessions in San Antonio have shifted from rare to routine. Builders are covering closing costs and upgrades. Resale sellers are addressing deferred maintenance they once ignored. And buyers, particularly first-timers and millennials entering the market, are negotiating terms that did not exist when inventory was tighter. The dynamic is familiar across Sun Belt markets ...
The properties generating the strongest cash flow in South Florida are not the ones most investors notice first. Polished Class A buildings, waterfront luxury units, and newly built complexes attract attention but compress returns. Experienced investors working in Miami-Dade and Broward County are instead buying mobile home parks, working-class rental portfolios, and properties in neighborhoods ...
The fix-and-flip model has long attracted small investors who want a tangible, short-cycle return. But in lower Westchester County, the conditions that once made flipping viable are eroding. Rising labor costs, expensive materials, and drawn-out project timelines are compressing the margins that used to make these deals worthwhile. Frank Palombo, a Realtor with Howard Hanna ...
The Dallas-Fort Worth metroplex has more than 200 cities and suburbs, and it continues to expand outward. That expansion has flooded outer suburbs with new construction inventory, and the downstream effects are now visible in longer days on market, price corrections, and a shifting calculus for both resale sellers and rental investors trying to compete. ...
For years, Buffalo and its surrounding counties were among the hottest investor markets in the Northeast. Affordable entry points, low property taxes, and strong rental demand made two- to four-unit residential properties an easy pitch. That pitch has gotten harder. In recent months, the number of listings expiring without a sale has exceeded the number ...
In Cleveland’s multifamily investment market, the frenzied pace of 2021 and 2022 has given way to something more measured. Properties that once drew multiple offers within days of listing are now sitting longer. Sellers who acquired buildings during the low-rate era are discovering that what they paid and what the market will bear today are ...
For years, South Jersey sat below the radar of most New Jersey real estate investors. Price points were low relative to the rest of the state, appreciation was modest, and attention flowed northward toward denser, higher-value markets closer to New York City. That dynamic has changed substantially since 2020, according to Shelby Morgan, Broker/Owner of ...
Cross-border real estate investment has long involved a painful irony: money moves digitally in seconds, but property purchases still require travel, intermediaries, and paper. In markets like Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and Oman, where large diaspora populations routinely send capital home for real estate, the gap between how easily money crosses borders and how difficult it ...
The gap between what South Florida sellers believe their homes are worth and what buyers will pay has become a defining feature of the current market. According to Peter Blicharz, a Real Estate Advisor with The PMB Group at SERHANT, sellers in Boca Raton and surrounding Palm Beach and Broward County communities remain anchored to ...
The Northwest Houston resale market faces competitive pressure that has little to do with interest rates or buyer demand. New construction communities ringing the area offer aggressive buyer incentives, closing cost coverage, design center upgrades, and boosted agent commissions that pull qualified buyers away from established neighborhoods. For investors and agents working the resale side, ...
