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Most buyers shopping for a condo in South Florida zero in on location first – the zip code, the view, the proximity to the water. But brokers active in the Miami market argue that buyers are focusing on the wrong variable. In a market where conditions vary sharply from one building to the next, the ...
Sarasota looks straightforward from a distance: warm weather, beaches, a real downtown, prices that still undercut Tampa and St. Pete. For buyers relocating from out of state, the value case seems obvious. What agents on the ground keep finding, though, is that the costs most likely to derail those purchases never appear in the listing ...
Most people thinking about Orlando real estate are focused on the suburbs, the master-planned communities, the new construction corridors, the areas that boomed when remote workers flooded in from the Northeast. Downtown Orlando has largely been left out of that conversation. The urban core has struggled, and investors have been reluctant to commit capital to ...
Florida’s insurance market has scared off plenty of would-be buyers in recent years, and Naples is no exception. Stories of skyrocketing premiums and dropped policies have created a widespread belief that insuring a home on the Gulf Coast is either unaffordable or not worth the trouble. Agents working the Naples market are pushing back hard ...
A few years ago, making an offer on a Florida condo meant reviewing the listing, scheduling a showing, and negotiating a price. Today, buyers are asking for the association’s budget, the latest financial statements, and a structural integrity report – before they even submit an offer. That change is real and accelerating, according to Denis ...
When people think about how US-Canada relations affect everyday life, real estate rarely comes to mind. But in the 1000 Islands region of upstate New York, where the international border runs through the St. Lawrence River just minutes from some neighborhoods, the cooling relationship between the two countries is showing up in property transactions, tourism ...
New construction is supposed to be the release valve when a housing market runs low on supply. Build more homes, ease the shortage, and take some pressure off prices. In Northern Nevada, that mechanism is largely failing, not because of a lack of demand or a shortage of willing builders, but because of the approval ...
In a state where some housing markets have lurched from frenzy to slowdown and back again, the suburbs west of Houston have earned a reputation for staying relatively steady. But agents who work those markets every day say the stability is real, and also more fragile at the edges than the headline narrative suggests. The ...
Florida’s condo market has spent the past two years generating alarming headlines: soaring insurance premiums, mandatory reserve requirements, special assessments landing in owners’ mailboxes without warning. For buyers eyeing a condo in the Sarasota area, the question is whether those headlines still reflect what is actually happening on the ground, or whether conditions have improved ...
If you are shopping for a condo in Florida right now, the price tag on the listing may be the least of your worries. Real estate professionals working the Gulf Coast market are warning that a wave of structural inspections, unpaid assessments, and tightening lender requirements has made a large share of Florida’s condo inventory ...
For the past three years, buying a home on Florida’s Gulf Coast has come with a hidden cost that shows up long after the purchase contract is signed: insurance. Carriers pulled out of the state in large numbers, leaving many coastal homeowners with limited options and sharply higher premiums. What experts working in these markets ...
Rent prices and vacancy rates are not supposed to move in the same direction at the same time. When a market softens, rents typically fall. When demand is strong, vacancies shrink. But for much of 2024, property managers in Upstate South Carolina were watching both numbers climb together, a contradiction that left landlords confused and ...
For the past several years, the story coming out of Florida’s coastal real estate market has been one of insurance chaos, carriers fleeing the state, premiums doubling or tripling in a single year, and buyers walking away from deals because the numbers no longer made sense. That period is now ending. Legislative reforms passed in ...
Buyers who keep losing out on move-in-ready homes in the DC-Maryland-Virginia market are often fighting the wrong battle. The competition for updated, turnkey properties is intense enough that many buyers are being priced out or repeatedly outbid, and some are passing over a financing option that could change the math entirely. Renovation loans have existed ...
