A sharp divide has emerged in Florida’s residential real estate market, creating an opening for investors willing to look past surface flaws. Joe Murphy, a team leader who closed 82 transactions in 2025 and has sold over 1,400 homes in his 23-year career, sees a growing gap between what retail buyers want and where real ...
Local data from Northern Colorado reveals a real estate market that has consistently outperformed national averages in both appreciation and resilience, contradicting the volatile narrative often presented by national media. This divergence is creating mispricing opportunities for buyers and investors who understand the region’s unique risk profile. Koby Bishop, a broker associate with The Group ...
Uri Sefchovich, a luxury real estate agent with Coldwell Banker in Miami, warns that investors seeking distressed properties and high rental returns are relying on outdated assumptions that no longer apply in today’s market. Distressed Inventory Has Disappeared Miami’s residential market no longer offers the distressed inventory that defined previous investment cycles. Sefchovich states that ...
The real estate industry faces a critical decision point about artificial intelligence that will shape which agents succeed in 2026 and beyond, according to Jeff Quintin, CEO of The Quintin Group. While some agents see AI as a threat to their jobs and others expect it to offer easy shortcuts, Quintin says both views miss ...
South Florida’s real estate market remains a magnet for investment, even as national conditions tighten. Community banks play a pivotal role in financing development projects that larger banks often overlook. Centennial Bank’s recent $73 million-plus construction loan for the 341-unit Flamingo Village in Hialeah illustrates how relationship-driven lending is enabling new projects in areas previously ...
The St. Augustine real estate market is now experiencing the same forces reshaping much of Florida: buyers need clear, compelling reasons to move amid higher interest rates and more cautious lending. As the market adjusts from the pandemic boom, distinct segments are emerging, each responding differently to these new conditions. From Rapid Growth to Market ...
The 2022 collapse of Skid Row Housing Trust was widely seen as a turning point for California’s supportive housing sector. Policy experts say the episode revealed long-standing structural and funding challenges rather than failures of permanent supportive housing itself. As California continues to face high housing costs and persistent homelessness, providers of supportive housing are ...
The Sarasota real estate market has shifted sharply since 2024, as recent hurricanes, rising insurance costs, and changing buyer priorities have upended the dynamics across barrier islands and the mainland. What was a seller-driven market during the pandemic is now firmly in buyers’ hands, with prices falling and leverage shifting toward those ready to act. ...
The move from professional sports to real estate is not rare, but few can match Jed Weaver’s experience navigating both the heights of a Super Bowl win and the fallout of a market crash. After three years with the Miami Dolphins and a championship season with the New England Patriots, Weaver has spent the past ...
The real estate industry is undergoing a significant change in how professionals are educated and prepared for the workforce. At Arizona State University’s Center for Real Estate and Finance, Executive Director Thomas Johnston is working to close the gap between traditional academic curricula and the practical skills now required in a rapidly evolving market. Johnston’s ...
Dallas real estate expert Darwin Stephens explains how shifting market realities are redefining homeownership timelines, and why it’s never too late to start. The traditional American Dream timeline, graduate college, land a career, buy a home by 30, retire comfortably, no longer reflects reality for millions of Americans. Today’s first-time homebuyers are entering the market ...
The short-term rental investment surge that defined much of the pandemic-era real estate market has ended in coastal Florida, according to a local agent monitoring the trend. The primary reason is not regulation or oversupply alone, but a decline in returns as property prices have outpaced rental income growth. “We’re seeing fewer Airbnbs. The market ...
In markets with active new development, builders have a structural advantage over individual home sellers, according to Florida Realtor Zach DiFilippo of Coldwell Banker Premier Properties in St. Augustine. DiFilippo points to the vertical integration of builder operations — where construction companies typically own the lender and the title company — as a key reason ...
Insurance has become a frequent obstacle in Florida real estate transactions. Still, one agent argues that deals collapse mainly when agents fail to anticipate and address insurance issues early, rather than because insurance is inherently unmanageable. “It’s easy for a deal to fall apart because of insurance if you don’t know what you’re doing,” says ...
Investor demand for South Florida condominiums has sharply declined as the economics of ownership no longer support positive cash flow, according to Melissa Galada, a realtor with RJM Real Estate Corp who specializes in the Boca Raton and Delray Beach markets. Galada reports that properties which would have attracted immediate investor interest two or three ...
