National headlines describe a housing market frozen by high rates, but Charlotte doesn’t fit that picture neatly. Homes are still selling there, and close to their asking prices. What has changed is how much separates the winners from the rest. A well-located, well-kept, realistically priced house still moves, while one that needs work or overreaches ...
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 ...
In Warminster, a middle Bucks County township where many homes date to the 1950s and 1960s, a split has opened between properties that are move-in ready and those that need work. According to Tracey Hill, a 20-year real estate veteran who recently opened an office for Innovate Real Estate in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 54% of homes ...
The narrative forming around North Jersey’s rental market is that it’s softening. By at least one measure, that’s accurate: leasing teams are working harder, showing more units, fielding more inquiries per signed lease, and spending significantly more on marketing than they did three years ago. But the actual rents tenants are paying have held up ...
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 ...
A homebuyer comparing two nearly identical four-bedroom houses on either side of the Butler-Allegheny County line in western Pennsylvania could face a property tax bill roughly double on the Allegheny side – $8,000 or $9,000 a year versus around $4,200 in Butler County. In a rate environment where monthly payment calculations dominate every purchasing decision, ...
In most markets, resale homes and new builds compete on roughly even footing. In Austin and Central Texas, the balance has tipped decisively. Builders sitting on completed inventory are discounting prices and offering financing incentives that resale sellers cannot match – and the result is a market where the sub-million-dollar segment is stalling while homes ...
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. ...
In most real estate markets, transaction volume tracks interest rates, job growth, and inventory. In Evergreen, Colorado – a mountain community roughly 30 minutes west of Denver, sitting between 7,500 and 8,500 feet in elevation – the pattern is different. Most buyers and sellers are acting on personal circumstances, not market timing, according to Jillian ...
Most sellers’ markets reward simply being a seller. In Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, that alone is not enough. Despite persistently low inventory and strong demand across the eastern side of Dane County, properties that are not priced correctly, staged well, and marketed thoroughly are sitting – even in conditions that otherwise favor sellers, according to Jennifer ...
In most housing markets, a listing price gives buyers a reasonable starting point. In Darien, Connecticut – a town of roughly 12 to 14 square miles on the Long Island Sound, about an hour by train from Grand Central – it has become something closer to a floor in an auction. Homes routinely sell well ...
For most of the past quarter century, the Las Vegas housing market has had a release valve. When home sales slowed, rentals tended to pick up, and when rentals softened, buyers were usually active. That pattern has broken. Both markets are slow at the same time, and the stall in one is now feeding the ...
Every FHA and VA mortgage issued in the United States is legally assumable. A buyer can take over the seller’s existing loan – rate, terms, and all – through a federally regulated process that fully transfers both the mortgage and the property rights. With roughly six million of these loans carrying rates below 5%, the ...
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 ...
