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 far costlier than a failed appeal. The argument is simple: filing an appeal has no downside and a meaningful upside, yet most people skip it ...
Residential Real Estate
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 property built decades ago – you may find the process takes longer than expected. One reason has nothing to do with ...
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 wait for a home that does not yet exist. The reason, according to agents working the ground there, is simple math. When resale inventory stays ...
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 expect is to find both within 10 minutes of downtown. That surprise is something Rhoni Golden hears about constantly. As co-founder ...
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 into steady, modest appreciation, lakefront properties continue to draw bidding wars, sell above asking price, and attract buyers paying cash. For investors eyeing ...
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 Pierce and Port Saint Lucie corridor on Florida’s Treasure Coast argue the real bottleneck isn’t price; it’s employment. Without a deeper job base, the ...
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 identical listings on the same block can produce wildly different outcomes, one drawing a bidding war, the other sitting for weeks with ...
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 still move, while properties that need renovation sit. The dividing line is no longer just price or location; it is condition, and ...
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 appreciating steadily. That calculus no longer holds. Expanding rent control laws and tenant protections have made multi-unit rental investing in parts of Silicon Valley ...
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, family-oriented communities, and lower prices per square foot. According to Oleg Shypitsyn, a Real Estate Advisor with LPT Realty’s Military Veteran Team, relocating buyers are evaluating ...
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 here don’t break ground speculatively. They wait for a buyer to walk in the door first, which means the pipeline of new homes is moving, but ...
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 operating in this environment, the challenge is less about chasing volume and more about finding the right clients at the right time. Open City Architecture, a boutique firm ...
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 alongside a competitive housing market, and tax rates that consistently rank among the highest in the nation, more homeowners are asking whether there is anything they ...
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 New England. As larger institutions merge and tighten their balance sheets, developers across the region are increasingly turning to private credit providers to keep projects moving. ...
