For a brief window when mortgage rates hovered near 3 percent, buying a vacation rental condo on Maui was straightforward math. Borrow cheap money for 30 years, collect nightly rental income...
Something quiet has been happening in the northern New Jersey housing market. Buyers who spent the past two years waiting for mortgage rates to fall back toward three percent are starting to...
In South Florida’s residential market, geography matters in ways that don’t show up in regional averages. Properties in western suburban communities with strong school districts ...
Most independent brokerages face a familiar fork: stay small and nimble, or grow and risk becoming indistinguishable from the national brands they once positioned against. Along New Jersey&#...
A market with rising inventory, softening prices, and motivated sellers would typically favor buyers. In southern Denton County, Texas, buyers who like what they see are choosing to wait any...
The usual story about senior housing markets involves inventory, pricing, and interest rates. In Ocean County, New Jersey, one of the state’s densest concentrations of age-restricted c...
Most second-home owners believe their property is fine when they are away. They have smart locks, a Nest thermostat, maybe a security camera pointed at the front door. What they often do not...
The story of people leaving big cities for Montana took hold during the early 2020s and became familiar shorthand for a certain kind of relocation. What is less understood from outside the s...
The balance of power in Northern Colorado’s housing market has tilted toward buyers, and sellers are feeling it. Buyers are arriving at the table more prepared than ever, and what they...
When a housing market loses its outside buyers, prices feel it. That is the situation unfolding in Topanga Canyon right now, where a series of disruptions over the past two years has filtere...
First-time buyers in Conway, Arkansas, are running out of options, and the problem is more structural than cyclical. The forces squeezing entry-level buyers are not temporary, and buyers hop...
Thousands of people relocate to Florida every year without a clear picture of what owning a home there actually costs, and the gap between expectation and reality can be expensive. The stick...
Scroll through any real estate site in South Florida right now, and you will see a growing number of properties flagged as pre-foreclosure or carrying a lis pendens notice, a legal filing in...
The East Bay housing market is not one market right now; it is two, and they are behaving like strangers. At the high end, buyers with strong stock portfolios are spending freely, pushing sa...
Finding shared housing in European cities has never been straightforward, but the gap between supply and demand has grown sharply in recent years. In Switzerland, as in many urban markets ac...
