Most independent brokerages face a familiar fork: stay small and nimble, or grow and risk becoming indistinguishable from the national brands they once positioned against. Along New Jersey’s commuter corridor from Hudson County through Essex and into Somerset, Corcoran Sawyer Smith has been testing whether acquisitions can scale a boutique without diluting it – and ...
A market with rising inventory, softening prices, and motivated sellers would typically favor buyers. In southern Denton County, Texas, buyers who like what they see are choosing to wait anyway, hoping something better comes along, and in the process, creating a stalemate that drags out days on market for listings that should be moving. After ...
The usual story about senior housing markets involves inventory, pricing, and interest rates. In Ocean County, New Jersey, one of the state’s densest concentrations of age-restricted communities, a less visible problem may be shaping the market just as much: the people running the communities themselves. Many of Ocean County’s 55-plus developments are self-managed or governed ...
Most second-home owners believe their property is fine when they are away. They have smart locks, a Nest thermostat, maybe a security camera pointed at the front door. What they often do not have is a person who physically walks through the home on a regular schedule and knows what to look for. According to ...
The story of people leaving big cities for Montana took hold during the early 2020s and became familiar shorthand for a certain kind of relocation. What is less understood from outside the state is that the profile of who is arriving in Whitefish has continued to change even as the headline narrative has stayed the ...
The balance of power in Northern Colorado’s housing market has tilted toward buyers, and sellers are feeling it. Buyers are arriving at the table more prepared than ever, and what they are asking for has changed in ways that would have been unusual just a couple of years ago. Sellers who resist these new expectations ...
When a housing market loses its outside buyers, prices feel it. That is the situation unfolding in Topanga Canyon right now, where a series of disruptions over the past two years has filtered the buyer pool down to people who already know the area, and shrunk it considerably. Agents working the canyon say the implications ...
First-time buyers in Conway, Arkansas, are running out of options, and the problem is more structural than cyclical. The forces squeezing entry-level buyers are not temporary, and buyers hoping conditions will ease soon may be waiting a long time. Emily Walter, executive broker and team lead at The Emily Walter Team under RE/MAX Elite, has ...
Thousands of people relocate to Florida every year without a clear picture of what owning a home there actually costs, and the gap between expectation and reality can be expensive. The sticker price on the home is only the beginning. Agents who specialize in out-of-state relocation are flagging a consistent pattern: buyers arrive focused on ...
Scroll through any real estate site in South Florida right now, and you will see a growing number of properties flagged as pre-foreclosure or carrying a lis pendens notice, a legal filing indicating a pending lawsuit, often related to mortgage default. It looks like a pipeline of distressed deals building up. But agents working the ...
The East Bay housing market is not one market right now; it is two, and they are behaving like strangers. At the high end, buyers with strong stock portfolios are spending freely, pushing sale prices past comparable homes. At the entry level, first-time buyers in the million-dollar range are hesitating, held back not by price ...
Finding shared housing in European cities has never been straightforward, but the gap between supply and demand has grown sharply in recent years. In Switzerland, as in many urban markets across the continent, the number of people searching for a room vastly outnumbers those offering one. For Safras Rawfal, who experienced this firsthand while studying ...
Real estate professionals watching companies pour into Florida, Texas, and other business-friendly states may be overestimating how many of the arriving employees will need mortgages. Corporate relocation activity is higher than it has been in decades, but the profile of who moves has shifted in ways that compress the real estate transaction opportunity on both ...
Two years of legislative debate over short-term rental rights on Maui have driven down prices in affected condo complexes by roughly 30% since 2023, according to Evan Harlow, a Realtor and Luxury Real Estate Agent with Maui Elite Property. The properties in question are still legally rentable through 2031. No rights have been revoked. No ...
The North Dallas corridor spent the past year shifting from what agents describe as an even playing field to a clear buyer’s market, with inventory at levels not seen in over 15 years and offers coming in well below asking price. But a wave of corporate relocations scheduled for late 2026 and into 2027 could ...
