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Heather Hook
05 Aug 2026

Photo credit: Sonja Zinke The Litchfield Hills, Hudson Valley, and Southern Berkshires sit within a remarkably compact geography. From Salisbury, Connecticut, you can be in New York State in five minutes and in Massachusetts in under ten. Within that small radius, however, the communities on offer are genuinely distinct from one another, and for buyers ...

Heather Hook
04 Aug 2026

Mid-year data from six northern New Jersey towns shows buyer demand diverging sharply by submarket, with some neighborhoods accelerating into summer while others have shifted toward buyer advantage. Two Markets, One Region, One Week Broad statements about the state of the real estate market tend to obscure more than they reveal. According to Mark Slade, ...

Heather Hook
04 Aug 2026

Commercial real estate ownership research has remained a manual process long after other brokerage workflows went digital. According to Dan Mosher, CEO and Co-Founder of DealGround, the reason is structural: property records are fragmented across 50 states and thousands of counties, and until recently, no technology could efficiently connect the multiple steps required to trace ...

Heather Hook
04 Aug 2026

In Cornwall, Connecticut, a town of a few thousand residents, a covered bridge, one general store, and one restaurant, five significant real estate transactions closed over a relatively short period. The properties ranged from a 187-acre country compound to a mountaintop stone cabin with views that required imagination to fully realize. On paper, they have ...

Heather Hook
03 Aug 2026

CARLSBAD, CA, July, 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has recognized Bryan Devore, Seniors Real Estate Specialist and Director of the Senior Division at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert in recognition of his expertise in senior real estate transitions, including downsizing, aging-in-place planning, and probate ...

Heather Hook
03 Aug 2026

Requesting historical utility bills from sellers is a standard step in residential due diligence. But according to Tim Stanislaus of Pearl, the practice produces data so compromised by occupant behavior that it cannot predict a buyer’s actual costs and may actively mislead them. The Occupancy Problem That Invalidates Seller Bills Stanislaus argues that the utility ...

Heather Hook
03 Aug 2026

Artificial intelligence can retrieve data, but it cannot interpret a buyer’s financial constraints, timeline, or the pricing dynamics of a specific neighborhood in a specific week. That distinction is becoming harder for clients to detect as more agents deploy AI tools to handle communication they once managed personally. The Difference Between Support and Substitution Alex ...

Heather Hook
03 Aug 2026

Century-old brick factory building to gain three new stories; Oldivai to deliver modular workforce housing — an iteration of its Project Zero model — directly across the street JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — July 2026 — Kaufman Real Estate & Consulting, together with development partner Oldivai, today announced a two-site redevelopment in the heart of Jacksonville’s Springfield ...