The conventional wisdom in residential real estate, wait for rates to fall before buying, may be exactly backward for veterans and military buyers with access to VA financing. While much of the market sits frozen, waiting for relief, a different logic is playing out among borrowers who can access rates meaningfully below conventional levels and ...
The Phoenix metro area has earned a reputation for softness in 2026, but individual submarkets tell a different story. In the East Valley, spanning Gilbert, Chandler, Mesa, Queen Creek, and San Tan Valley, the constraint is not a lack of buyers. It is a pricing standoff between sellers anchored to 2021-era expectations and buyers squeezed ...
Central New York’s housing market is being reshaped by a single infrastructure project. The Micron chip fabrication facility under construction in Onondaga County has tightened inventory so severely that buyers are pushing 20 miles or more into surrounding counties to find available homes, creating a ripple effect that has doubled rents in some areas over ...
Los Angeles multifamily investors are sitting on the sidelines in large numbers, frustrated by local politics and rising operating costs. But the same regulatory environment discouraging existing owners is creating a specific kind of opportunity, one that hinges not on what a building produces today, but on what can be added to it. The shift ...
Over $112 billion has flowed into Opportunity Zones since the program’s creation, yet participation remains a fraction of what the program allows. Now that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act has made Opportunity Zones permanent, the gap between available capital and actual deployment raises a practical question: what is keeping developers and investors on the ...
In most major U.S. metros, luxury residential prices have either recovered from pandemic-era disruptions or pushed past their 2019 peaks. In downtown Chicago, several of the city’s most invested-in neighborhoods, Gold Coast, Streeterville, Magnificent Mile, and parts of River North, remain flat to down over the past five years. That gap between Chicago’s trajectory and ...
The youth sports tourism industry has grown large enough to anchor entire mixed-use developments, not just stadiums or standalone facilities, but full districts of hotels, retail, restaurants, and multifamily housing built around tournament-capable venues. In Lebanon, Ohio, a development group is betting that a field sports facility focused on soccer and lacrosse can serve as ...
In Baltimore City, a property that sat vacant for 25 years with no roof and trees growing inside can become a fully rehabbed home selling to a buyer relocating from California or D.C. That transition is happening block by block, driven by coordination between developers, community associations, and city and state agencies that channels funding ...
A property that sits on the market too long in the Chicago suburbs doesn’t just lose momentum; it loses credibility with buyers. Listings that expire without a sale carry a stigma, and relisting at the same or higher price rarely solves the underlying problem. But agents working the Berwyn corridor and surrounding towns are finding ...
The pandemic-era suburban boom that pushed buyers into the far reaches of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro is unwinding. Properties in outer markets are struggling to attract buyers while demand reconcentrates closer to established urban nodes, according to Yaron Yashar, a Realtor at Fathom Realty who works primarily in the north DFW corridor. For investors who ...
Jersey City’s downtown condo market reports a three-month absorption rate, but according to Patrick Southern, Team Leader at SERHANT (Properties by Southern), roughly one-third of that inventory cannot compete with new construction – leaving an effective supply closer to two months for buyers seeking quality units. The Three-Month Number Overstates What’s Available A three-month absorption ...
Markets that experienced extreme pandemic-era appreciation are not snapping back to equilibrium. In Montgomery County, Texas, the reset is structural, slow-moving, and widely misunderstood by investors expecting a quick rebound. The Scale of the Problem When real estate markets began softening in 2023, many observers framed it as a temporary cooling period before the next ...
The New York metro area’s brokerage landscape is in the middle of a consolidation wave that hasn’t fully registered in national headlines. Small independent firms, many still operating out of storefronts in suburban towns, are finding it increasingly difficult to compete on technology, training, and compliance infrastructure against larger operations. According to Joe Moshe, founder ...
The prevailing narrative about Austin, Texas, real estate in 2026 is that it’s a buyer’s market. National coverage has emphasized cooling prices, rising inventory, and a correction from pandemic-era peaks. But in West Austin, the cluster of communities including Bee Cave, Lakeway, Westlake, and Spicewood, the picture is considerably more fragmented. Depending on the neighborhood ...
The conventional narrative about Los Angeles housing centers on scarcity and rising costs. But on the rental side, the story has reversed, and most coverage has not caught up. According to Jesse Sasomsup, Founder & President of Earnest Homes, a residential property management firm operating in Los Angeles since 2015, rents across the city have ...
