Bakersfield’s housing market sits in an unusual position for California: median prices around $400,000, rising inventory, and builders actively offering credits and rate buydowns to attract first-time buyers. The result is a market where resale sellers who ignore what’s happening next door, sometimes literally next door to a new construction community, are watching their listings ...
The common shorthand for Nashville’s housing market, either “still hot” or “finally cooling,” misses what’s actually happening on the ground. According to Kortney Wilson, Founder & Team Leader of The Kortney Wilson Group at eXp Realty, the metro area is behaving less like a single market and more like a collection of distinct submarkets, each ...
Most real estate websites still greet visitors with a contact form, a passive tool that asks for information before offering anything in return. That model is increasingly out of step with how buyers actually shop: browsing has shifted heavily into evenings and weekends, attention spans have compressed, and the rise of zero-click search, where consumers ...
Rising inventory usually signals a cooling market. In the Minneapolis–St. Paul metro, it signals something else: more people choosing to move at the same time. The Twin Cities are carrying their highest housing inventory since 2018 or 2019, yet transaction volume has risen in step – producing a busy market with more options rather than ...
The short-term rental boom that swept through New York’s Hudson Valley during the pandemic years has given way to a less forgiving environment. Regulations are tightening across municipalities, operational costs have risen, and supply has flooded the market as second-home owners listed their properties on rental platforms simultaneously. STR investors are pulling back, and a ...
The starter home in South Jersey used to cost around $250,000. That number has shifted upward by roughly $100,000 to $150,000 depending on the county, pushing the introductory price into the $350,000 to $400,000 range, according to Maria Robles, a Realtor Associate Broker with Real Broker, LLC, who has worked the South Jersey market for ...
Home prices in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro are declining, but the cost of building anything continues to climb. That disconnect, cheaper finished homes, more expensive inputs, is compressing builder profits and creating budget surprises for owners who haven’t priced a project recently, according to Vamsi Emani, Chief Cost Estimator at Aguirre Project Resources (APR) in ...
Ocean City, New Jersey, is a barrier island in Cape May County where generations of families have vacationed, rented, and eventually bought property. The town bills itself as “America’s Greatest Family Resort,” and its dry-town status and family-friendly character have created a buyer pool that renews itself decade after decade, largely from the Philadelphia metro, ...
Most homeowners replace a roof only when forced to, and the material they choose is usually whatever went on last time. But in regions where hurricanes, wildfires, and hailstorms have damaged the same homes repeatedly, that default is breaking down. Metal roofing has grown from roughly 3% to 17% of U.S. residential installations, according to ...
For much of 2023 and 2024, Texas multifamily operators were fighting a war of attrition; new supply flooded Sun Belt markets, concessions became standard practice, and occupancy rates slipped across the board. Now, as that supply wave recedes and short-term loans originated in 2021 and 2022 reach maturity, a different dynamic is emerging: lender-owned assets ...
Nightly rate compression is no longer a temporary correction in the short-term rental market; it’s a structural condition. Competition has intensified, supply has caught up with demand in many markets, and pricing tools alone cannot restore the margins operators enjoyed four or five years ago. The operators pulling ahead now aren’t necessarily the ones with ...
Bergen County has long been one of northern New Jersey’s most competitive residential markets; good schools, proximity to Manhattan, and distinct town-by-town character keep demand high. But affordability constraints and persistently tight inventory are now pushing a growing share of would-be Bergen buyers into Passaic, Essex, Morris, and Union counties, according to Heather Corrigan, a ...
The spare bedroom used to become a nursery, a home office, or a guest room. Increasingly, it’s becoming a podcast studio or a video set, a shift that reflects how content creation has moved from side hustle to income stream for a growing number of homeowners. Taras Legar, Founder / Principal Designer at Leg Art ...
Most housing markets respond to interest rates. When borrowing costs rise, prices soften. When political uncertainty builds, buyer activity slows. In Monmouth County, New Jersey, that logic no longer applies. The county’s residential market is being driven almost entirely by a supply-and-demand imbalance so severe that conventional economic indicators – rates, geopolitical risk, consumer sentiment ...
Most first-time buyers in the Northeast assume new construction is out of reach. In the Capital Region of upstate New York – the sprawling metro area anchored by Albany, Schenectady, and Saratoga – that assumption is being tested by modular home developments priced to compete directly with older existing inventory. The dynamic is straightforward: buyers ...
