For a growing share of American households, staying in an apartment isn’t a holding pattern before homeownership. It’s a deliberate financial decision – one driven by math that has shifted sharply against buyers in recent years, according to Chamari De Silva, Director of Marketing at Renew, a renewal, retention, and management platform for multifamily operators. ...
Housing markets across the U.S. are splitting into two distinct stories in 2026, with high-end demand holding steady while entry-level segments cool under mounting affordability pressure. Houston illustrates this national divide with unusual clarity. Houston’s housing market is not one market. At $1.2 million and above, properties move quickly, driven by corporate relocations and executives ...
Younger, working-class families are bypassing established Dallas suburbs in favor of lower-maintenance housing in fast-growing peripheral cities – and the capital hasn’t followed them yet. The most significant demand shift in the Dallas-Fort Worth market in mid-2026 isn’t happening in the submarkets that dominate real estate headlines. According to Nadeem Khan, a Realtor with Crown ...
Most commercial real estate investors still treat Arkansas as a flyover state. The numbers suggest otherwise: office, retail, and industrial properties across the state are running at 3 to 6% vacancy across most asset classes, according to Bryce Richardson, president of commercial sales at Brick Real Estate in Faulkner County, Arkansas. National office vacancy hovered ...
A home that would have drawn 15 offers in a weekend three years ago now sits for 60 to 120 days or longer in the Scottsdale area, and according to Brad Kimmelman, Team Leader, Senior Global Real Estate Advisor with The Homanity Team at Russ Lyon Sotheby’s International Realty, the listing itself is rarely the ...
Two homes list in Houston’s western suburbs in the same week. One is priced at $550,000. The other at $1.25 million. The cheaper home sits for 90 days. The expensive one sells over asking with multiple offers. That split, counterintuitive on its surface, is what Bryan Lillis, team lead at Luxe Realty Houston, describes as ...
Real estate standoffs usually resolve themselves, prices drift, expectations adjust, and transactions eventually clear the backlog. In California’s Coachella Valley, some sellers are skipping that process altogether: rather than cut prices to move a stalled listing, they’re pulling it off the market and waiting out the slow summer season instead. The shift reflects a broader ...
In parts of the eastern Coachella Valley, parcels that look like obvious development opportunities on paper are worth far less than their location suggests – because they cannot be connected to the electrical grid. The local utility serving that portion of the valley is at capacity, according to Troy Kudlac, Broker – President of KUD ...
Buying a single-family rental in a fast-growing Sun Belt city usually starts with job growth, population trends, and neighborhood quality. What many investors skip entirely is the one factor that can erase all of those advantages: how many new apartments are being built nearby. The argument sounds counterintuitive. You are buying a house, not a ...
The instinct when relocating is to buy immediately, lock in a home, plant roots, get settled. In the Dallas-Fort Worth market right now, the smarter move for out-of-state buyers is the opposite: rent for a year, study the terrain, then purchase. Buyers who skipped that step during the pandemic overpaid badly, and the ones arriving ...
In some of Seattle’s most desirable neighborhoods, the person bidding against you for an older home is not another family. It is an investor who plans to tear the house down and build two or three townhomes in its place. Recent zoning changes in Seattle have made this strategy legal and profitable, according to Eric ...
Many first-time buyers in New Jersey delay purchasing for years because they believe they need 20 percent down. According to Anastasia Cafiero, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Central who serves Monmouth County’s Freehold, Marlboro, and Manalapan areas, that belief is wrong, and the actual entry point is low enough that some renters could buy ...
Across Los Angeles County, the conversation around housing affordability has settled into a familiar shape: rents keep climbing, and the leap to homeownership feels further out of reach with each passing year. For most renters, that means resigning themselves to paying more every month with no path toward building equity, since local home prices have ...
Mountain real estate in Colorado’s Summit County has long carried a reputation as a stable store of value: limited land, world-class ski resorts, and steady demand from wealthy second-home buyers. But several pressures are converging in ways that test that assumption. Buyers treating a Summit County purchase as a guaranteed hedge may be underestimating risks ...
The model homes dotting Austin’s northern suburbs come with rate buy-downs, closing cost credits, and move-in-ready kitchens. But the purchase price often hides at least three costs that can push a household toward financial distress within the first two years of ownership. None of these costs show up on a listing sheet or during a ...
