Automated valuation tools pull comparable sales data from nearby properties and produce confident estimates of what a house is worth. But in metros where housing stock spans more than a century, those estimates often fail to account for physical condition, structural age, and zoning designations that only a human can identify. According to one agency ...
A new home that costs 12 to 18 percent more than a conventional wood-framed house sounds like a hard sell. But Neil Prakash, an architect working in mass timber construction in British Columbia, argues that sticker price is the wrong number to focus on. He says the real cost of a home should be measured ...
In most housing markets, a small shift in mortgage rates changes a monthly payment by a manageable amount. In Orange County, California, where typical purchase prices run well above a million dollars, that same quarter-point shift moves payments by hundreds of dollars a month. According to Jordan Bennett, team lead of Jordan Bennett & Associates ...
In hurricane-prone parts of the US, the case for 3D-printed housing rests less on speed or novelty than on what the walls are made of. Concrete homes printed by robots carry specific resilience advantages over stick-built wood framing, advantages that matter most in markets where storms, termites, and wildfire threaten conventional structures. Boris Kozlov, Founder ...
The Hamptons real estate market remains stable even as buyer behavior becomes more cautious and deliberate. Veteran agents Patricia Oakley and Brian Leicht of the Oakley Leicht team at Saunders & Associates describe a landscape shaped by long-term changes in demand, inventory, and buyer expectations. Oakley, who entered real estate after 18 years in pharmaceuticals, ...
In the stretch of coastline running from Hallandale Beach through Hollywood, Aventura, and Sunny Isles, the condo market is not experiencing a single correction. Two distinct markets are operating under the same geographic label – one defined by scarcity, the other by oversupply – with the dividing line falling near the million-dollar mark. Below that ...
In a region often discussed in extremes – either “heating up” or “cooling off” – Palm Desert’s residential market is doing neither. The city leads the Coachella Valley in monthly home sales volume, carries roughly four months of inventory, and operates as a balanced market, according to Vlada March, Realtor and owner of Vlada March ...
The gap between what sells fast and what lingers in Southern California’s inland and coastal submarkets has less to do with location than most buyers assume. In the corridor stretching from Temecula and Murrieta through Fallbrook and down into Oceanside, Carlsbad, and Vista, the dividing line is increasingly about condition and price, not neighborhood prestige ...
Northeast Florida’s housing market carries a four-month supply of inventory, a figure that, by conventional standards, still favors sellers. But within that tight market, a divide is forming between resale properties and new construction that is forcing existing homeowners to rethink how they position a listing. The issue is not a lack of demand. Builders ...
From the outside, Naples registers as a single luxury market, wealthy cash buyers competing for beachfront property. That perception isn’t wrong, but it’s incomplete enough to cost buyers money. The metro contains at least four distinct sub-markets, each with different pricing dynamics, buyer profiles, and ownership cost structures. What works in a golf community purchase ...
Canada’s housing shortage has generated no shortage of proposed solutions, and prefabricated mass timber construction is among the most frequently cited. The logic is appealing: use domestic timber resources, build panels in a controlled facility, ship them to site, and erect homes faster than traditional stick-frame methods allow. In British Columbia, where forestry infrastructure already ...
Early claims that 3D-printed construction would be 100 percent cheaper and 200 percent faster than conventional building went undelivered, eroding investor confidence. Now, with roughly 150 single-family homes completed in the United States and up to 300 more under construction across multiple communities, according to Boris Kozlov, Founder & CEO of AC3D (Automated Construction 3D), ...
The luxury vacation-home market along Florida’s 30A corridor is splitting into two distinct tiers. Newer, well-built homes in desirable communities are commanding strong prices and attracting buyers quickly. Older homes that need work are sitting. The divergence is reshaping how buyers, sellers, and agents approach a stretch of coastline where every purchase is discretionary. Richard ...
The narrative around residential real estate investors in 2026 is one of retreat. Higher rates, compressed margins, and fewer easy flips have thinned the ranks. But the pullback may say more about how investors were making decisions than about the actual availability of deals, and the distinction matters for anyone still active in the space. ...
In much of coastal Florida, rising insurance costs and storm damage have slowed buyer activity and left damaged properties sitting unrepaired. In Sarasota County, something different is happening: nearly half of all transactions are cash, according to Tom Cail, Co-Founder of the Cail Grande Group at RE/MAX Alliance Group in Sarasota, who has worked the market ...
