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Heather Hook
30 Jun 2026

A three-day investment summit in Panama City revealed that American investors considering international real estate aren’t pursuing a single strategy. Multiple development approaches across different geographic zones and price points appeal to fundamentally different investor profiles – and all are finding traction simultaneously. The Invest Panama Summit (May 28-30, 2026) brought twelve investors from across ...

Heather Hook
30 Jun 2026

Investors evaluating secondary and tertiary Midwest markets for multifamily capital deployment tend to screen on population size first. By that measure, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, with a metro population of approximately 300,000, typically does not make the cut. What that screen misses is a market that has produced consistent rent growth for four decades, near-zero ...

Heather Hook
30 Jun 2026

For thirty years, Mike Simon worked inside the real estate services industry. He watched title reps, loan officers, and insurance professionals buy one data platform after another, load CRMs with historical MLS transactions and agent histories, and then mostly ignore them. Not because the data was bad. Because data, on its own, does not tell ...

Heather Hook
30 Jun 2026

OVERLAND PARK, KS, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Logan Freeman, Managing Broker of Midwest CRE Advisors, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Freeman will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on edge data center site selection, stranded power capacity, brownfield industrial conversion, and industrial outdoor storage across ...

Heather Hook
30 Jun 2026

TUCSON, AZ, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Tony Ray Baker, Realtor and Team Leader at REMAX Fine Properties, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Tony Ray will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on residential real estate across Tucson, Oro Valley, Marana, Sahuarita, Catalina, Vail and Green ...

Heather Hook
30 Jun 2026

In a market where inventory is tight and every listing carries real stakes, agents are looking beyond the standard marketing playbook. Professional photography, virtual tours, and social media posts have become table stakes. What’s shifting is where agents are allocating their remaining budget, and a growing number are turning to streaming, otherwise known as connected ...

Heather Hook
30 Jun 2026

Foreclosure activity in Baltimore County, Maryland is not just rising – it is rising from a starting point that was already severely elevated. According to Justin Mitchell, Founder of Maryland Cash Home Buyers, a Frederick-based direct buyer operating across Maryland’s residential markets, the headline numbers tell part of the story, but the more significant signal ...

Heather Hook
26 Jun 2026

CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 2026 – State energy offices, municipalities, and utilities invest billions of taxpayer and ratepayer dollars each year through efficiency rebates, weatherization, electrification, and the federal Home Energy Rebate programs. But once the work is done, evidence of the upgrade is buried in rebate files, and program records the housing market never sees. ...

Heather Hook
26 Jun 2026

The conventional wisdom about foreclosure is that it is an adversarial process – borrower against lender, each side maneuvering for advantage. Jack Miller of Gelt Financial LLC argues that this framing causes borrowers to misread the situation in ways that cost them dearly. With rising rates and softening property values pushing more owners toward default, ...

Heather Hook
26 Jun 2026

Most buyers start their Florida Keys home search online. They browse listings, fall in love with the water, and contact an agent ready to buy somewhere in the Keys. The problem, according to Sandy Tuttle, is that “somewhere in the Keys” is not actually a useful starting point. Tuttle is the founder/owner of Island Welcome ...

Heather Hook
26 Jun 2026

Study Underscores How Home Performance Shapes the True Cost of Ownership CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va., June 23, 2026 – Pearl, an independent standards and ratings organization that defines and measures home performance, today announced that its Pearl SCORE™ data has powered a new Realtor.com® study quantifying how a home’s performance shapes its total cost of ownership – ...