Home sellers may be losing thousands of dollars when real estate agents avoid discussing professional staging, according to Fiorenza Bilak, founder and CEO of Stage The Space, LLC. While staging is widely recognized as a tool that helps homes sell faster and for higher prices, Bilak says misunderstandings about cost, timing, and impact often prevent ...
Oversupply, rising costs, and tougher regulations have exposed how fragile the short-term rental model really was – and why so many investors are now facing losses, foreclosures, or a forced reset. Short-term rentals (STRs) were once the darling of residential investment, offering seemingly endless returns during the post-COVID boom. But that trend has shifted profoundly ...
While headlines focus on Brooklyn’s soaring median prices, the real action in New York real estate is happening at the ground level, where the pace of deals is outstripping what most buyers – and even some agents – expect. Patrick Dominique, a realtor at One Stop Agency specializing in Queens, Nassau County, and Brooklyn, says ...
In Bergen County’s current real estate market, where homes routinely sell above asking price and inventory remains tight, the biggest obstacle to closing deals is not price but property condition. Paula Clark, a 30-year industry veteran and team leader of The Paula Clark Group, reports that inspection contingencies have become the primary source of negotiation—and ...
Bergen County, New Jersey, stands apart from other suburban markets, maintaining strong home prices despite broader affordability pressures. The key factor is its unmatched proximity to Manhattan, which creates demand that neighboring regions cannot match. According to Paula Clark, a 30-year real estate veteran and team leader at The Paula Clark Group, this geographic advantage ...
The Florida Keys luxury real estate market is showing a counterintuitive trend: sales of canal-front homes have surged nearly 59% over the past year, even as average prices have dropped by 9%. At first glance, this divergence might suggest distress or weakening demand. But according to Michaela Walters, Broker Associate at Walters Luxury Group, the ...
Florida’s coastal real estate markets are facing a marked shift in international participation, as Canadian and European buyers pull back and foreign owners list properties at a higher rate. According to Bob Ruiz, a realtor with Ruiz Group SRQ at William Raveis Real Estate, this reversal is adding pressure to markets already struggling with excess ...
A growing management gap between corporate leadership and field agents is reshaping the real estate industry, according to Bill Crespo, CEO and founder of Path2PRO Coaching. Many brokerage organizations are led by executives with no direct experience in real estate sales or managing agents, creating a disconnect that is opening the door for institutional consolidators ...
Rising inventory in Northeast Florida has changed how real estate agents approach pricing, according to Shelby Hodges, team leader at The Shelby Hodges Group in St. Augustine. Instead of setting a firm listing price based on their expertise, agents now present sellers with a data-driven price range and allow them to choose the final number, ...
While most real estate investors focus on interest rates and access to capital, a different risk is quietly derailing more commercial property deals: environmental liabilities hidden in properties with long operational histories. John Paul Teague, a partner at Musick, Peeler & Garrett LLP who recently closed what he calls “probably the second largest real estate ...
You found the perfect Miami Beach penthouse. The views are stunning, the building is brand new, and the rental income projections look solid. Then the HOA bill arrives — $2,500 a month. Suddenly, your profit margins disappear. Across South Florida, condo investors are facing sharply rising fees that were not factored into their original investment ...
A significant pricing war is taking shape in Florida real estate markets, as builders use deep discounts and below-market mortgage rates to move inventory. This strategy, according to veteran realtor Bob Ruiz of Ruiz Group SRQ at William Raveis Real Estate, has created a market where homeowners who bought in the past two years cannot ...
Conventional wisdom often casts oil-dependent real estate markets as risky, prone to dramatic swings in home values when energy prices fall. Yet Chris Cline of Grassroots Realty Group, a REALTOR® with 19 years of experience in Grand Prairie, Alberta, argues this view overlooks how economic structure can insulate a city from the worst effects of ...
According to Joseph Keshi, founder and CEO of Keshman Property Management, investors often focus on cap rates, appreciation, and tax advantages when evaluating markets. However, Keshi argues that legal differences—especially those related to eviction—directly affect investment performance. Nowhere is this clearer than in how long it takes to remove a non-paying tenant. Keshi describes a ...
A practical solution to Connecticut’s housing shortage is gaining traction in Danbury: converting vacant or underused hotels and motels into apartments. Waleed Albakry, Planning Director for the City of Danbury, says the city is among the top municipalities in Connecticut for this type of adaptive reuse, turning long-closed hotel properties into new residential buildings with ...
