In a county with roughly 1.9 million taxable parcels, the vast majority of homeowners never challenge their assessed value. Property tax attorneys in the Chicago area say that inaction is fa...
If you own an older home in the Jacksonville or St. Augustine area and are thinking about a major renovation – expanding for a growing family, adapting for aging in place, or updating a pr...
In New York’s Capital Region, a growing number of home buyers are making a choice that would seem counterintuitive in most markets: voluntarily signing up for an eight- to ten-month wa...
Most buyers moving from New York to Dallas expect to choose between two things: a neighborhood that feels like a real place to live, or reasonable proximity to the city. What they do not exp...
Along the shores of Keuka Lake and Seneca Lake in upstate New York, real estate operates on a different frequency than the surrounding region. While much of the Southern Tier has settled int...
When a housing market softens, the instinct is to blame prices. Sellers priced too high. Buyers can’t afford current levels. Cut the price, move the home. But agents working the Fort P...
In most housing markets, the home that sold down the street gives you a reasonable sense of what yours might fetch. In Greater Boston right now, that logic has broken down. Two nearly identi...
A year or two ago, almost anything listed in Jupiter or Palm Beach Gardens sold fast. Today, agents working those zip codes describe a market that has split cleanly in two: turnkey homes sti...
For decades, buying a rental property in the San Francisco Bay Area looked like a sure thing. Prices climbed, rents rose, and a two- or four-unit building could generate income while appreci...
Military families relocating to the Tampa Bay area are increasingly bypassing neighborhoods near MacDill Air Force Base in favor of surrounding suburbs. The shift is driven by school quality...
In many parts of the country, new construction has served as a pressure valve for tight housing inventory. In New York’s Capital Region, that dynamic plays out differently. Builders he...
Northeast Florida has spent much of the past decade absorbing population growth, tourism pressure, and an aging building stock that increasingly needs attention. For smaller design firms ope...
Property taxes in Illinois have long been a source of frustration, but the conversation has moved in recent years from quiet grumbling to active pushback. With assessed values climbing along...
Regional bank consolidation has been reshaping construction lending across the United States for the better part of two years. Still, its effects are playing out with particular intensity in...
When buyers relocate to the Buffalo area, they tend to gravitate toward the same well-known suburbs: Amherst, Williamsville, and the established neighborhoods of North Buffalo. Grand Island,...
