When a tenant and landlord both want to part ways, a cash-for-keys agreement used to be one of the cleaner solutions available. The landlord pays the tenant to vacate voluntarily, the tenant walks away with money in hand, and both sides avoid the cost and stress of eviction court. In Santa Monica, that option has ...
When housing inventory is this tight, buying land and building from scratch can look like a logical workaround. In the Hudson Valley, the math on that strategy is harder than most buyers expect, and one factor that rarely shows up in early conversations is the tax treatment of new construction. A Two-Part Cost Problem Brokers ...
In the market for self-employed borrowers, the best rate isn’t always what wins the loan. Often, it’s whichever lender gets there first. When a broker is working with a freelancer, a small business owner, or a real estate investor seeking a mortgage, that borrower’s loan application often goes out to several lenders at once. In ...
The narrative around Miami’s luxury real estate market in mid-2026 is one of cooling, a natural correction after the frenzied pace of 2021 and 2022. But on the ground in South Beach and Miami Beach, the picture is more layered than the headlines suggest. Inventory has expanded, buyers have gained negotiating leverage, and yet deal ...
Out-of-town buyers who purchased older barrier-island homes during the COVID boom are discovering that renovation costs and flood-compliance requirements make their properties nearly impossible to improve economically. Florida’s barrier islands have long attracted buyers drawn to waterfront access and established neighborhoods. But a federal regulation that many buyers overlook is reshaping the economics of older ...
The short-term rental boom that swept southwest Florida during the pandemic years is unwinding, and the exit is not clean. According to Michael Byrd, a realtor with Realty One Group MVP, a convergence of municipal restrictions, rising platform fees, and oversupply has left a significant cohort of Airbnb investors unable to service their debt, and ...
With roughly 165 active projects across Miami-Dade and Broward County, buyers can afford to be choosy. Brandon Talalaevsky of Property Pro Partners argues that aggregate inventory numbers miss the real story: which projects meet today’s higher standards and which don’t. When headlines describe Miami’s condo market as slowing, they typically draw on metro-wide or county-level ...
The Silicon Valley luxury market is riding a wave of capital spending on AI infrastructure that even its biggest beneficiaries acknowledge looks overheated. John Young, co-founder of Young Platinum Group at Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, has analyzed Palo Alto housing data across three major downturns over the past 28 years. His conclusion: while the ...
Real estate inventory data in New York’s Hudson Valley may be overstating how constrained the market actually is for buyers, according to Vicki Stent, a licensed real estate salesperson with Coldwell Banker Village Green Realty. Stent says that even during periods when headline inventory numbers pointed to shortage conditions, she was consistently finding suitable properties ...
When homes sit unsold for months in a market with rising inventory, the instinct is to blame interest rates or buyer hesitation. Michelle Chase, Team Leader at The Michelle Chase Team with Home Wise Realty Group, points to a different culprit: agents who take listings at prices they know are too high. Chase has spent ...
The idea that rising home prices benefit everyone in a housing market is getting harder to defend. What real estate professionals are seeing in markets like San Luis Obispo County tells a more complicated story, one where the same price appreciation that rewards longtime owners is systematically locking out everyone else. Hal Sweasey, broker and ...
Pasco County, Florida, has a reputation problem. For years, people who knew the Tampa Bay area thought of it as farmland, aging homes, and not much else. That picture is nearly a decade old, but it persists, and for buyers still acting on it, the gap between perception and reality is closing in ways that ...
A ballot measure arriving in November 2026 could do more to change Central Florida’s housing market than any interest rate move in recent memory. Real estate professionals in the region are watching it closely, and some argue that buyers who understand what is at stake will be better positioned than those who don’t. Lisa Foor, ...
Ask someone from Tampa or Clearwater about Pasco County, and the answer has historically been predictable: old, rural, farmland, nothing going on. According to Cory Byrd, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker F.I. Grey & Son Residential, Inc., who grew up in the Tampa-Clearwater area before relocating to Pasco, that perception was once grounded in reality ...
Sussex County, Delaware, is frequently cited as one of the most tax-friendly places to live in the United States. Property taxes are among the lowest in the nation, and the overall cost of living compares favorably to neighboring states like New Jersey and Maryland. Yet according to Dustin Parker, Founder and CEO of The Parker ...
