Residential Real Estate

The pitch sounds irresistible: buy a condo near the coast, furnish it, find a tenant who stays three to six months, and collect rent while you do almost nothing. That story circulates widely...

A three-bedroom, two-bathroom home with a two-car garage in California can run $800,000 or more. The same home, brand new, in Princeton, Texas, is closing this month for $325,000, and that g...

The wood-frame, stucco-clad homes that dominate Southern California residential construction burned by the thousands last year. Concrete does not burn. The technology that once made concrete...

In parts of the eastern Coachella Valley, parcels that look like obvious development opportunities on paper are worth far less than their location suggests – because they cannot be connect...

Younger home buyers have more information at their fingertips than any generation before them. But in the Coachella Valley’s eastern communities, that information – particularly inst...

Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor...

The Coachella Valley, the string of desert communities stretching from Palm Springs to Indio in Southern California, operates on a seasonal rhythm that most housing markets don’t share...

The midterm rental segment in coastal San Diego, stays of one to six months, fully furnished, has attracted a wave of new operators over the past two years. Many are former short-term rental...

Among Southern California’s beach communities, Long Beach occupies an unusual position. While comparable coastal neighborhoods in Manhattan Beach, Newport Beach, or Laguna Beach price ...

Unincorporated land with minimal zoning restrictions, relatively affordable lots, and a creative culture that celebrates architectural experimentation, on paper, the Southern California high...

The instinct when relocating is to buy immediately, lock in a home, plant roots, get settled. In the Dallas-Fort Worth market right now, the smarter move for out-of-state buyers is the oppos...

In some of Seattle’s most desirable neighborhoods, the person bidding against you for an older home is not another family. It is an investor who plans to tear the house down and build ...

Many first-time buyers in New Jersey delay purchasing for years because they believe they need 20 percent down. According to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who se...

Across Los Angeles County, the conversation around housing affordability has settled into a familiar shape: rents keep climbing, and the leap to homeownership feels further out of reach with...

Most first-time home buyers in the East Bay focus on one number: the purchase price. But in a market where home prices remain well above national averages, the monthly payment, and specifica...