Steve Marcinuk

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 ...

Westchester County, New York, has consistently outperformed comparable suburban markets through multiple economic downturns, from the 1988 stock market correction to the 2008 financial crisis. Its position just north of New York City, combined with access to strong public schools and relatively short commute times, has made it a reliable destination for families relocating from ...

Fort Worth, Texas, has ranked among the fastest-growing cities in the United States, adding roughly 20,000 residents annually over the past two decades. That pace of growth has driven up housing costs, strained permitting systems, and exposed the limits of aging infrastructure across the city — pressures especially concentrated in District 9, which spans downtown, ...

Vail Valley’s real estate market has cooled, not crashed, but the cracks are showing. After years of frenzied pandemic buying that sent home prices soaring and inventory plummeting, Eagle County is now a market where homes sit, buyers walk, and the short-term rental income that sold so many on ownership is quietly falling short of ...

While home prices are easing across much of the United States in 2026, buyers in Westchester County are living a completely different reality. Properties here are routinely closing between 107% and 115% of their asking price, bidding wars involve dozens of competing offers, and inventory remains far too thin to give buyers any leverage. The ...

After several years of compressed deal flow and a persistent gap between buyer and seller expectations, Oklahoma’s retail investment market is showing signs of renewed activity. For those tracking the state’s commercial real estate landscape, the pickup feels less like a sudden reversal and more like a gradual acceptance of new pricing realities – one ...

Across California, state housing mandates and local planning priorities are increasingly at odds. Few places illustrate that tension as clearly as San Diego’s Point Loma Peninsula, where a 67,000-resident community is caught between developer ambitions, state density requirements, and infrastructure largely built during World War II. Two major projects could add tens of thousands of ...

The commercial real estate conversation around Austin often centers on tech campuses and mixed-use megaprojects, but the thousands of small and mid-sized businesses forming the backbone of the local economy are facing a far different reality. Higher interest rates, tighter lending standards, and climbing construction costs have converged to squeeze a segment of the market ...

After more than three decades working across New Hampshire’s seacoast and southern commercial real estate markets, David Choate, former Executive Vice President at Colliers International, offers a ground-level view of a region quietly shaped by tax advantages, proximity to Boston, and steady demographic shifts. New Hampshire’s appeal runs deeper than headlines suggest — a state ...

The Minneapolis-Saint Paul housing market is telling a different story from the rest of the country. While affordability concerns and economic uncertainty dominate national headlines, the Twin Cities have maintained a degree of balance that many comparable metros have lost. The region’s geographic compactness, wide range of price points, and relatively stable inventory have helped ...

After nearly a decade of sharp price growth and intense competition, the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle is settling into something that feels increasingly unfamiliar to agents who started their careers in the post-pandemic market: normalcy. Inventory is rising, buyers are taking their time, and sellers are learning that presentation matters again. The cooling follows a national ...

The off-market real estate space is often portrayed as a straightforward exchange: a distressed seller trades a discount for speed and certainty. But the reality on the ground in Maryland looks considerably more complicated. For investors working directly with homeowners, the bigger challenge isn’t finding motivated sellers – it’s managing the gap between what sellers ...

When a daycare facility in Massachusetts needed to have a leaking flat roof repaired, three contractors came out and recommended the same thing: shingles. It was the familiar answer, the expected one — and according to Adrian Ferreira, it was the wrong one. Ferreira, supervisor of Ferreira Company, a roofing and waterproofing contractor serving Bristol ...

Steamboat Springs, Colorado, has long stood apart from the glitzy resort towns of the American West, built on ranching culture, reliable snowfall, and a fiercely loyal community that valued authenticity over excess. But that identity is now under siege. A staggering $1.6 billion in luxury development is flooding the town with five-star hotel brands, $15 ...