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Alejandra Rodriguez
25 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
25 Aug 2026

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 ...

emergent
25 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
25 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
25 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
25 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
23 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
21 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
21 Aug 2026

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 ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
21 Aug 2026

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 ...

Steve Marcinuk
21 Aug 2026

Every time a home goes on the market in the United States, the listing data – price, photos, square footage, descriptions – enters a multiple listing service. From there, that data gets copied. According to Tim Dain, President & CEO of NorthstarMLS, the regional MLS serving Minnesota, some MLS databases get replicated hundreds or even ...