In much of the country, residential real estate has shifted toward balance or outright buyer advantage over the past year. Parts of North Jersey haven’t followed that script. Some towns in Passaic, Morris, and Bergen counties are still operating with two to two-and-a-half months of inventory, well below the six months that typically signals equilibrium. ...
Industrial outdoor storage has spent the past few years pulling in more institutional capital than almost any other niche in commercial real estate. The sector is now estimated at roughly $218 billion, up from about $200 billion in 2025, nearly 9% growth in a single year, with transaction volume reaching $14–16 billion in 2025, up ...
Many first-time buyers in San Antonio are following the same strategy: wait for lower mortgage rates, then buy. But that math may be missing a critical variable. The concessions and builder incentives available today exist precisely because the buyer pool is thin. When rates drop and more buyers enter the market, those perks disappear, and ...
When buyers cross the Hudson River from New York to Jersey City, most calculate their discount against Manhattan pricing, how much less per square foot they’ll pay compared to the island they just left. According to Patrick Southern, team leader at SERHANT (Properties by Southern) and a broker active in Jersey City since 2003, Manhattan ...
Homeowners trying to sell in Northern Virginia’s master-planned communities are discovering an uncomfortable competitive reality: the builder who sold them their home is still next door, offering incentives they cannot match. Federal job losses are accelerating the problem, pushing recent buyers onto the market before they have built any equity – and before the builder ...
Every spring, a fresh wave of buyers floods the North Jersey housing market. By August, many have quit, outbid repeatedly, watching homes sell for tens of thousands over asking, and deciding to try again next year. That annual attrition creates a quieter window in the fall. Not a buyer’s market, but a measurably less competitive ...
When rents climb, or new construction runs over budget, most people blame material costs or labor shortages. But in fast-growing Sun Belt metros, a less visible problem is inflating project budgets: the declining quality of architectural and engineering plans. Incomplete or poorly coordinated designs introduce confusion on job sites, trigger costly change orders, and push ...
After a 24-month boom in 2020 and 2021 that pushed annual home sales to 6 million units nationally, the real estate industry has settled into a prolonged flat stretch, around 4.1 million units annually for four consecutive years. The brokerages built for the boom never restructured for the plateau. According to Craig McClelland, a partner ...
Housing markets are supposed to move on big forces – interest rates, job growth, inventory levels. But in Dallas Fort Worth, the momentum building through early 2026 broke not because of a rate hike or a recession, but because gas jumped from $2.60 to $4 a gallon seemingly overnight. For buyers already stretched to their ...
Downtown Jersey City sits at a three-month absorption rate for resale condos, and once problem listings are removed (bad layouts, low ceilings, overpriced units), the effective supply drops closer to two months. That’s the backdrop against which a new wave of high-rise condo development is arriving in Hudson County, New Jersey, a building type that ...
The assumption that longer days on market signal a weak housing market doesn’t hold up in Polk County, Florida. Homes there are sitting longer; days on market have climbed from single digits during the pandemic to the 90s, yet properties are still closing at 97% of asking price across most neighborhoods, according to Jen Lay, ...
The broader Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) housing market has cooled. Listings are sitting longer, buyers are pickier, and the negotiating balance has shifted. But one segment in the Frisco-McKinney corridor is defying that trend: distinctive, high-end properties on unusual lots. While generic inventory stalls, homes with irreplaceable features are still moving quickly, even above the million-dollar ...
Waterfront and vacation properties along Lake Conroe, Lake Livingston, and the Gulf Coast from Crystal Beach through Jamaica Beach are sitting in saturated inventory – and many owners who purchased during the recent boom cannot recover their investment at current prices. For owners who treated second homes as a store of value, the math has ...
Building an ADU in a Los Angeles backyard has always meant one financial path: rent it out. A homeowner could house a family member or find a tenant, but selling the unit as standalone property required a costly lot split. A policy change already active in parts of California may eliminate that barrier, turning backyard ...
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 ...
