When Yuval Shram, founder and CEO of TAY Investments, appeared on the Mr. Deed Podcast, he brought with him more than 15 years of hard-won experience building a multifamily real estate portfolio across New Jersey and beyond. What emerged from the conversation was a masterclass in patient, principled development – and a clear-eyed vision for ...
After several years of breakneck activity driven by low interest rates and pandemic-era migration, Miami’s luxury residential market has settled into a calmer rhythm. Inventory has grown, buyers are taking more time, and the bidding wars that defined 2021 through 2023 have largely faded. Yet demand at the upper end remains solid, with significant deals ...
Las Vegas carries a powerful association with hospitality and short-term stays. That reputation draws a steady stream of real estate investors who assume the city’s culture translates into a permissive environment for Airbnb-style rentals. According to Ilona Fedorko, a realtor with Scofield Group LLC, that assumption is wrong — and acting on it without due ...
The mortgage rate lock narrative has become a catch-all explanation for tight inventory, but on-the-ground evidence suggests it applies to a far narrower slice of the market than conventional wisdom assumes. The rate-lock story has become one of the most repeated explanations in residential real estate: millions of homeowners are sitting on 2.5% and 3% ...
Hurricane Sandy’s rebuild cycle didn’t just repair a coastal market — it replaced it with a fundamentally different one, and the effects on pricing, inventory, and investment opportunity are still unfolding more than a decade later. When Hurricane Sandy struck the New Jersey Shore in 2012, it left behind a landscape of damaged and destroyed ...
In competitive markets where homes sell in under a week, and buyers routinely bid above asking price, a friction point is emerging that neither buyers nor sellers can fully control: the appraisal. According to Paula Koontz, Team Lead and Realtor at The Koontz Team, Keller Williams Classic Properties Realty, appraisal shortfalls are becoming one of ...
As major carriers exit California’s market and the FAIR Plan becomes the default for hundreds of thousands of homeowners, the gap between insurance payouts and actual reconstruction costs has widened into a structural crisis for disaster recovery. California’s insurance market has been deteriorating for nearly a decade, according to Kevin Cox, CEO and founder of ...
Buyers’ appetite for major renovation projects in Manhattan’s luxury townhouse market has narrowed sharply, as project timelines and contractor costs have stretched far beyond what buyers are willing to absorb. The calculus around buying a townhouse in need of significant work has changed dramatically. What was once considered a straightforward value-add opportunity has become a ...
National headlines about a cooling housing market may be accurate in parts of the country, but they don’t reflect what is happening on the ground in New Jersey’s Somerset County. While markets like Phoenix, Austin, and Chicago have experienced notable corrections, this corner of the Northeast has remained firmly in seller’s market territory, and the ...
After years of clear seller’s and buyer’s markets, Charlotte’s residential real estate market has become harder to read. Some homes sell within hours. Others sit for months. The difference often comes down to the individual property rather than broader market conditions. This marks a departure from the predictable patterns that defined the market through the ...
New York City’s townhouse market is shifting in ways that reward preparation over promotion. While renovated properties are moving fast, sometimes without ever reaching public listings, unrenovated homes are sitting longer as buyers pull back from the cost and complexity of major construction projects. The divide is sharpening, and the brokers navigating it most effectively ...
Rising property taxes in Vermont are compounding an already severe affordability crisis, creating a two-sided squeeze that is pricing young buyers out of ownership while forcing landlords to raise rents — leaving an entire generation with no affordable path in either direction. A Crisis Within a Crisis The national conversation about housing affordability tends to ...
With 361 residential sales above $10 million recorded in 2025, South Florida’s ultra-luxury segment is running at roughly twice the pace of five years ago — and the buyer profile bears little resemblance to the speculative market that collapsed in 2008. The “Bubble” Narrative Outside South Florida, the reaction to Miami-area luxury prices is often ...
Most real estate technology has been designed to serve buyers who are ready to transact. But according to Benjamin Quinn, Director of Real Estate Operations at Roomvo, that buyer may represent a small minority of the people actually using listing portals. Quinn argues that the prop tech industry has overlooked the dominant user segment on ...
Inheriting property can feel like an unexpected gift — a tangible piece of someone’s life, and often a significant financial asset. But the transition from estate to sale is rarely straightforward. Families navigating inherited real estate face a distinct set of pressures: multiple decision-makers, emotional attachment, unfamiliar processes, and a market that rarely meets expectations. ...
