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Steve Marcinuk
13 May 2026

The Monmouth County residential real estate market is navigating a stretch of competing pressures — rising mortgage rates, historically low inventory, and buyer hesitation that is reshaping how homes are priced, marketed, and sold. The conditions are not unique to New Jersey, but local factors are creating dynamics specific to this market that go beyond ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 May 2026

South Florida’s real estate market has long attracted buyers seeking warm weather and a lower tax burden. As of mid-2026, the forces reshaping the region go well beyond lifestyle appeal. Political migration, corporate relocation, and pending tax legislation are creating conditions that reward informed buyers and penalize those who move on assumptions alone. Marina Bartashnik, ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 May 2026

As residential markets across the Southeast cool in 2026, one small coastal community in South Carolina is posting sharply different results. Pawleys Island, situated between Myrtle Beach and Charleston, is seeing a year-over-year appreciation of 15.6%, a figure that stands in sharp contrast to broader regional softness. The reasons lie in the area’s physical constraints, ...

Steve Marcinuk
13 May 2026

After more than a decade of reinvestment in formerly industrial and overlooked neighborhoods, Buffalo’s real estate market is entering a new phase. Infrastructure projects, rising property taxes, and institutional purchasing activity are all converging at once, creating both opportunity and friction for buyers and sellers across Erie County. For agents working on the ground, navigating ...

Steve Marcinuk
11 May 2026

Nashville’s reputation as one of America’s fastest-growing cities has long attracted investors, developers, and transplants drawn by job growth, no state income tax, and a vibrant urban culture. As of mid-2026, the market has entered a more complicated phase that rewards careful analysis over momentum-driven optimism. Tasha DeRegis, founder of Sell My House Fast TN, ...

Steve Marcinuk
11 May 2026

The self-storage sector rarely makes headlines the way multifamily or office markets do, but for investors paying close attention, it offers dynamics that reward discipline and long-term thinking. As construction costs stabilize, equity remains cautious, and home sales sit near multi-decade lows, the developers best positioned to benefit are those who started planning years ago ...