MAPLEWOOD, NJ, May 21 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Mark Slade, founder and team lead of The Mark Slade Homes at Keller Williams, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Slade will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on residential real estate buying, selling, and investment across the Essex ...
For the better part of five years following the pandemic, the greater Princeton area operated under a simple rule: well-located homes sold fast, prices climbed steadily, and buyers who hesitated often lost out. That dynamic is changing. Across Princeton, Montgomery, West Windsor, and surrounding towns, a more measured pace is taking hold – one that ...
After years of frenzied activity that pushed prices up 38% year-over-year at its peak, Austin’s residential market has settled into a more measured rhythm. Inventory has expanded, negotiating dynamics have flipped, and buyers who once had to accept nearly any terms are now walking away from deals that don’t meet their expectations. Rising interest rates, ...
Across Long Island’s residential market, a specific property type is drawing steady attention from a growing segment of buyers: the multi-generational home. While inventory remains tight and interest rates continue to shape purchasing decisions, families seeking ways to pool resources and live together, without sacrificing privacy, are finding few options built for their needs. Eileen ...
Tucked between Philadelphia, New York, and Delaware, South Jersey has long played second fiddle to its more prominent neighbors. That dynamic is changing. As affordability pressures squeeze buyers out of major metro areas, a growing number of households are looking south within the Garden State – and finding a market that is moving fast with ...
The Nashville housing market has been through a lot in the past several years: a pandemic-era boom, a sharp slowdown, and now what appears to be an early-stage recovery. For professionals who have worked through multiple cycles in this market, the current moment feels familiar in some ways and genuinely different in others. Alex Helton, ...
After years of seller dominance, Orlando’s housing market has tilted back toward buyers. Inventory has grown, bidding wars have eased, and buyers who once waived inspections just to compete are now insisting on them and using the results to negotiate. For home inspection professionals, the change is reshaping daily business in ways that go well ...
Connecticut’s residential real estate market is deep into a stretch that would test even the most experienced practitioners. Inventory sits roughly 63% below pre-pandemic levels, buyer demand remains strong, and properties in desirable areas are drawing double-digit competing offers within days of listing. For boutique brokerages operating in this environment, the pressure is constant, and ...
Cape May County holds the distinction of being the number one second-home destination in the United States, and within it, the barrier islands of Avalon and Stone Harbor sit at the top of the pricing ladder. Average sale prices hover around $3.6 million, bayfront homes trade between $12 and $14 million, and new construction two ...
About eight years into running his own brokerage, Daniel Berger has guided clients through multiple market cycles in Westchester County, New York and Fairfield County, Connecticut — low-rate frenzies, pandemic-era migrations, and the slower, more deliberate market that followed. As broker-owner of RE/MAX Prestige Properties, he personally closed 55 transactions totaling over $40 million in ...
After several years of pandemic-driven extremes, Portland’s residential real estate market is working toward balance. Prices have stabilized, inventory is gradually building, and buyers are approaching purchases with a level of deliberation absent during the frenzy of 2020 and 2021. Headlines can paint a discouraging picture. On the ground, the reality is more layered. Carey ...
As national housing markets grapple with elevated interest rates and economic uncertainty, Loudoun County in Northern Virginia is holding its own – though not without notable changes on the ground. Sales volume is up modestly, prices continue to inch higher, and demand from well-capitalized buyers remains steady. But for sellers who haven’t adjusted their expectations ...
The mortgage rate lock-in effect is real, and it isn’t going away. Millions of homeowners carrying pandemic-era rates in the 2%-3% range are still doing the math and choosing to stay put. That calculus hasn’t changed as much as some expected. What has changed is something harder to measure: the accumulation of life circumstances that ...
Central New Jersey has long been one of the more distinctive housing markets in the Northeast – dense, diverse, and driven by a buyer pool unlike almost anywhere else in the country. As the spring 2026 selling season reaches its peak, the market is showing both resilience and real strain, depending on which segment you ...
Featured responses from KeyCrew’s 3,500-expert intelligence network. After three years of mortgage-rate-driven seller paralysis, U.S. housing inventory is starting to loosen – but the practitioners closest to the transactions say rates aren’t the reason. In responses collected by KeyCrew Media in April 2026, practitioners found near-universal agreement on what’s actually moving sellers, and sharp disagreement ...
