The Hudson Valley real estate market is operating under conditions not seen since the late 1990s. Inventory across the region has fallen to its lowest level since 1997, creating an environment where sellers hold most of the leverage and buyers must move quickly and creatively to compete. With remote work still reshaping where professionals choose ...
Rent prices and vacancy rates are not supposed to move in the same direction at the same time. When a market softens, rents typically fall. When demand is strong, vacancies shrink. But for much of 2024, property managers in Upstate South Carolina were watching both numbers climb together, a contradiction that left landlords confused and ...
For the past several years, the story coming out of Florida’s coastal real estate market has been one of insurance chaos, carriers fleeing the state, premiums doubling or tripling in a single year, and buyers walking away from deals because the numbers no longer made sense. That period is now ending. Legislative reforms passed in ...
Buyers who keep losing out on move-in-ready homes in the DC-Maryland-Virginia market are often fighting the wrong battle. The competition for updated, turnkey properties is intense enough that many buyers are being priced out or repeatedly outbid, and some are passing over a financing option that could change the math entirely. Renovation loans have existed ...
There is a ceiling that most real estate agents hit, and it has nothing to do with their market, their skills, or their work ethic. It has to do with what they spend their time on. The agent who is answering emails, scheduling showings, chasing paperwork, and managing their own calendar is the agent who ...
After several years of pandemic-fueled frenzy, Florida’s Gulf Coast real estate market is settling into something more familiar to long-time practitioners. In Sarasota, that correction is being felt across price points and property types. For those who have worked the market through multiple cycles, it reads less like a slowdown and more like a return ...
Florida has always been a boom-or-bust real estate market, and the post-pandemic correction playing out across Sarasota and Manatee counties is a clear reminder of that pattern. After years of compressed inventory and rapid price appreciation, the market is settling into a rhythm closer to its historical pace – and for buyers and investors who ...
The rental market in Upstate South Carolina has been telling a more complicated story than regional growth headlines suggest. While Greenville consistently ranks among the fastest-growing cities in the country, the day-to-day realities of managing rental properties across the region reveal competing pressures: rising rents alongside rising vacancies, an influx of first-time landlords, and tenants ...
The Washington, D.C., metro area real estate market is navigating an unusual combination of pressures in mid-2026. Federal workforce reductions, persistent interest rates, and geopolitical uncertainty have combined to create a market that looks and feels different from recent years. For buyers and sellers trying to time their moves, the signals can be confusing, and ...
As summer 2026 gets underway, the residential real estate market in Southern Westchester County shows little sign of the seasonal slowdown that typically follows Memorial Day. Inventory is gradually increasing, but buyer demand continues to outpace supply, keeping conditions firmly in seller territory across the Sound Shore communities of Larchmont, Mamaroneck, and Rye. For Farrah ...
The Central Florida housing market in mid-2026 looks meaningfully different from the pandemic-era frenzy that defined much of the early 2020s. Inventory is moving more steadily, out-of-state buyers remain active, and a growing number of buyers are finally accepting that historically low interest rates are not coming back. But persistent pricing gaps between seller expectations ...
The narrative around South Florida real estate has grown increasingly complicated in recent years. Headlines swing between stories of pandemic-era price surges and more recent warnings of a cooling market. For agents working across Miami-Dade and Broward counties, the reality is more nuanced than either storyline suggests, and the timing matters. With new condo regulations ...
Most people who own a rental property in a market where prices have tripled face the same question: Is it time to sell? In Little Egg Harbor, New Jersey, where the average sale price has climbed from roughly $140,000 before the pandemic to around $450,000 today, that question is coming up constantly. What experienced local ...
Selling a home in a market flooded with new construction is hard enough. Selling one when the builders down the street are offering sub-5% interest rates and covering closing costs is harder still. That is the situation resale sellers in Clermont, Florida, are facing right now, and agents working the area say the sellers who ...
Few real estate professionals have the vantage point that comes from navigating a market through multiple complete cycles. Janice Mason, a Luxury Real Estate Advisor with Coastal Properties Group and Forbes Global Properties, has been active in Tampa Bay real estate since 1991. Her perspective spans the pre-Internet era, the 2008 housing collapse, the pandemic ...
