The housing affordability crisis has reached a critical stage across the United States, with Utah emerging as a laboratory for state-level solutions. Where debates once questioned whether a crisis existed, the focus has shifted to concrete strategies and policy action. Steve Waldrip, Senior Advisor for Housing Strategy and Innovation in Utah Governor Spencer Cox’s office, ...
Real estate professionals who successfully grow from solo agents into team leaders quickly discover an operational challenge they didn’t anticipate: password and credential management becomes a critical business issue faster than expected. The moment you bring on your first assistant who needs CRM access, or a junior agent who needs MLS credentials, informal password management ...
Michigan-based referral platform to present breakout session at Real Estate Distilled, one of few national conferences focused exclusively on independent brokerages. Realay will attend Real Estate Distilled in Louisville, Kentucky from March 16-18, marking the company’s first major conference appearance since launching its voice AI-powered mobile app in late 2025. The conference, which draws approximately ...
The conversation about artificial intelligence disrupting professional services intensifies weekly. Legal research, radiology interpretation, financial analysis, content creation – entire career categories face genuine automation threats. Yet one profession consistently absent from credible displacement predictions: real estate agents. Scott Spelker of The Spelker Team at Coldwell Banker Realty in Madison, New Jersey, spent 25 years ...
Connecticut’s fix-and-flip market does not follow the typical seasonal slowdown seen in traditional home sales. Instead, many investors seek properties during the winter, when most residential buyers pause their searches. Jay Osorno, a realtor at Alpha Capital Realty who works primarily with investors, says his clients acquire renovation projects in December and January. They do ...
After years of rapid sales and bidding wars, Houston’s residential real estate market is defined by hesitation and longer listing periods. Buyers now monitor properties for weeks before acting, a behavior shift that is extending transaction timelines and creating new psychological hurdles for both sides of the deal. From Bidding Wars to Waiting Games Houston-area ...
New Orleans property owners are grappling with a stark economic contradiction. While the average home price in the city is 15 percent below the national average, the typical cost of homeownership is 15 percent above it. Michael Mito, Commercial Division Director at United Real Estate | Partners, says this imbalance between property values and ownership ...
Long Island’s residential real estate market is defying national trends tied to mortgage rates, with intense buyer demand persisting despite higher borrowing costs. Susan MacDonald, a real estate salesperson at Daniel Gale Sotheby’s International Realty, says the region’s inventory shortage has now lasted for six years, creating competition that overwhelms available supply regardless of financing ...
The Hampton Roads real estate market is settling into what agent Dan Patton of Prodigy Realty describes as a return to “normal” after years of pandemic-driven volatility. With 12 years of experience serving the Virginia region’s sizable military population, Patton has seen the market move from pre-pandemic stability through the rush of ultra-low interest rates ...
The Orlando housing market is confronting a severe affordability crisis, with first-time buyers increasingly unable to access traditional entry-level homes. Rising costs, stalled segments, and shifting demand have made it harder than ever to purchase a starter home in Central Florida. The New Reality of Starter Home Pricing Affordable starter homes in Orlando now cost ...
An increase in home renovations is reshaping Long Island through upgrades to existing properties rather than new development. Instead of selling and moving to larger homes, many homeowners are expanding their current properties. This shift redirects capital and labor away from the traditional resale market. According to Susan MacDonald, a real estate salesperson at Daniel ...
In New Jersey’s Ocean and Monmouth Counties, a new dynamic is reshaping the housing market: investors are routinely outbidding traditional homebuyers, pushing prices beyond what owner-occupants can justify. Johnny Guan, founder at The JG Team, says this trend is now a defining feature of the region’s real estate landscape. “I’m watching investors pay more, willing ...
Long Island’s real estate market is undergoing a major shift, driven not by traditional buying and selling patterns but by changes in lenders’ views of accessory dwelling units (ADUs), such as basement apartments and mother-daughter setups. What once counted as a liability, those “illegal” or informal units scattered throughout Queens and Nassau County, is now ...
The St. Petersburg real estate market is undergoing a significant recovery after the severe hurricanes of late 2024, while also moving away from the seller-driven frenzy that defined the past several years. Agents and teams now face a landscape that demands new strategies, greater client education, and a clear understanding of shifting market forces. Jake ...
Housing affordability challenges now extend beyond low-income households and affect households earning over $100,000 in cities such as Denver, Seattle, and Dallas. According to Marc Norman, Associate Dean at NYU School of Professional Studies Schack Institute of Real Estate, these households are increasingly rent burdened and eligible for affordable housing programs. He describes this as ...
