The Hampton Roads metropolitan area in southeastern Virginia sits at an unusual crossroads. It is home to roughly 17 military installations, one of the East Coast’s busiest ports, miles of Atlantic coastline, and a city, Virginia Beach, that holds the distinction of being the largest municipality in Virginia by both population and land mass. Yet ...
While national headlines focus on affordability challenges and rate-locked sellers, Cincinnati is telling a different story. For agents working the market daily, the city offers a combination of low entry prices, strong rental yields, and a buyer base that is moving up the economic ladder rather than being priced out of it. Flor de Maria ...
As residential markets across the Southeast cool in 2026, one small coastal community in South Carolina is posting sharply different results. Pawleys Island, situated between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, is seeing a year-over-year appreciation of 15.6%, a figure that stands in sharp contrast to broader regional softness. The reasons lie in the area’s physical constraints, ...
After more than a decade of reinvestment in formerly industrial and overlooked neighborhoods, Buffalo’s real estate market is entering a new phase. Infrastructure projects, rising property taxes, and institutional purchasing activity are all converging at once, creating both opportunity and friction for buyers and sellers across Erie County. For agents working on the ground, navigating ...
The New Jersey shore market has long attracted buyers needing more space than Manhattan offers or simply drawn to coastal living. But in Monmouth County today, the gap between perception and reality is wider than many outsiders recognize. Inventory remains low, competition is fierce, and buyers winning deals increasingly share one trait: cash. Kyle Golden, ...
San Diego has a housing problem that no amount of new development can easily fix. Unlike cities where builders can push outward into open land, San Diego is essentially full — nearly 95% developed, with little vacant ground left to build on. Yet the population keeps growing, rents stay high, and the gap between what ...
Most American cities follow a predictable economic distribution. Santa Fe, according to one long-tenure market observer, does not, and that structural anomaly has direct consequences for who can buy, who gets priced out, and why the upper tier of the market keeps expanding. An Inverted Distribution Chris Webster, CEO and publisher of Leading Estates of ...
When Space Center funding contracted around 2008, Florida’s Space Coast didn’t just experience a downturn; it experienced one of the more severe regional collapses in a state already among the hardest-hit nationally. The cause, according to Lindsay Sanger Norton, Managing Broker and Owner of The Solutions Group at Real Brokerage, was straightforward: the entire local ...
When a house at 25 Burnett Terrace in Maplewood, NJ hit the market listed at $800,000 and closed at $1,188,000, it became the highest percent-over-asking sale in Maplewood year to date. That number – 48.5% above list price – sounds like luck. It was not. Mark Slade of Mark Slade Homes spent weeks preparing that ...
Student housing operators treat the $1,000 per bed mark as a psychological milestone. Cross it, and suddenly you’re in premium territory. Stay below it, and you’re accessible. But according to industry veterans, that’s not how students actually make decisions. Teddy Abdelmalek, Senior Vice President of Business Development at HH Red Stone, argues that students don’t ...
Along the Jersey Shore, a steady migration is reshaping the residential real estate market. Ocean and Monmouth Counties have become a destination not just for summer visitors, but for a growing wave of buyers from New York, North Jersey, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania – many of them cashing out of higher-priced markets and finding that their ...
Santa Fe, New Mexico, is outpacing the national luxury real estate market. The city jumped 18 places to rank first among the country’s 60 most active luxury markets in Q1 2026, according to the Wall Street Journal’s quarterly luxury market index. Luxury prices rose 11.3% year over year during that period, while the national average ...
Nashville’s reputation as one of America’s fastest-growing cities has long attracted investors, developers, and transplants drawn by job growth, no state income tax, and a vibrant urban culture. As of mid-2026, the market has entered a more complicated phase that rewards careful analysis over momentum-driven optimism. Tasha DeRegis, founder of Sell My House Fast TN, ...
Hoboken, New Jersey’s residential market offers a clear window into what’s happening across high-demand urban markets in the Northeast. Constrained inventory, rising rents, and a widening gap between the cost of buying and renting are changing how residents and investors approach one of the region’s most sought-after zip codes. For Jeffrey Bonk, Salesperson with The ...
As major metropolitan markets contend with rising costs, regulatory complexity, and population outflows, a quieter story is unfolding in south-central Pennsylvania. Lancaster County has been steadily absorbing buyers priced out of, or simply tired of, life in New York, New Jersey, and Philadelphia. David Wissler, Team Lead at The Wissler Team under Coldwell Banker Realty, ...
