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14 Jun 2024

ELIZABETH CITY, N.C., June 14, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — New Again Houses®, a company that transforms old houses into fantastic modern homes, is thrilled to announce the opening of their 52nd location in Coastal Carolina, NC! The brand-new franchise location—led by Zachary and Mae Chrisman—will now be able to buy and sell homes in Beaufort, ...

New Again Houses® Welcomes New Cash Home Buyers in Coastal Carolina, NC
Steve Marcinuk
01 May 2026

After nearly a decade of sharp price growth and intense competition, the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Triangle is settling into something that feels increasingly unfamiliar to agents who started their careers in the post-pandemic market: normalcy. Inventory is rising, buyers are taking their time, and sellers are learning that presentation matters again. The cooling follows a national ...

Steve Marcinuk
02 Feb 2026

The growing housing affordability crisis has made it increasingly difficult for millions of American families to qualify for traditional mortgage financing. According to the National Association of Home Builders, 57% of U.S. households are unable to secure a mortgage. This gap has created both a challenge and an opening for real estate professionals to develop ...

Buying a rental property seems straightforward: purchase a home, find a tenant, and collect rent. But for many new landlords, the real costs become clear only after the first few months. Insurance premiums, maintenance bills, management fees, and a range of smaller expenses quickly add up, often shrinking the profit margin that looked promising on ...

The Wilmington rental market shows a clear split in performance by bedroom count, a factor now determining which properties succeed and which struggle. Catherine Huffman, co-owner of Keyrenter Wilmington, reports that rents for three-bedroom and larger homes have increased year over year, while two-bedroom units have declined over the same period. “Three bedrooms and up ...

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Steve Marcinuk
24 Sep 2026

North Carolina’s Research Triangle has ranked among the country’s top relocation destinations for decades, but growth pushing northward into Franklin County, now the second-fastest-growing of the state’s 100 counties, is reshaping the luxury housing market in this part of the state. The buyers arriving are not shopping for production homes in master-planned communities. They are ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

Charlotte continues to attract roughly 130 new residents a day, according to recent estimates. But for developers trying to acquire land in the region, population growth alone is not translating into straightforward transactions. Development costs have climbed, municipal fees have increased, and review timelines have stretched, all of which have widened the gap between what ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
24 Jul 2026

The land investment space has long been dominated by two extremes: speculative holds on raw acreage and full-scale horizontal development with entitlements, infrastructure, and vertical construction. Between those poles sits a less visible model, buying large rural tracts, subdividing them under existing by-right zoning provisions, and selling smaller parcels to retail buyers who want to ...

Heather Hook
23 Jul 2026

Faith-driven multifamily firm participates in quarterly community serve event, bringing investors on-site to serve residents through prayer walks, community programming, and face-to-face engagement CHARLOTTE, NC – July 2026 – Investors traded spreadsheets for shovels and prayer walks on June 20, joining Steven Libman – co-founder of Integrity Holdings Group (IHG) and founder of Investing With ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
22 Jul 2026

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 ...

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Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The gap between Houston’s residential market and its coastal neighbor shows what happens when short-term rental speculation meets a correction. Harris County, Texas, currently has roughly six months of housing inventory – enough to classify it as a balanced-to-soft market where sellers need to price carefully and present homes in strong condition. But the sharper ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
14 Sep 2026

The U.S. rental market built aggressively during the pandemic era, particularly in Sunbelt cities like Nashville, Austin, and Dallas. Now much of that new inventory, especially high-end apartments, is sitting partially empty, competing for renters whose budgets have tightened considerably since construction began. The disconnect is straightforward: developers built expensive Class A apartments in markets ...

Alejandra Rodriguez
09 Sep 2026

In most American markets, holding a property for ten or twelve years builds a cushion of equity. In Manhattan, that assumption no longer holds across large segments of the market, according to Nikolay Afanasyev, Founder & CEO of CITY SPHERE Property Group, a boutique brokerage covering Manhattan and parts of Brooklyn. Rising building carrying costs, ...

Steve Marcinuk
09 Sep 2026

For buyers waiting on the largest purchase of their lives, the appraisal process is one of the last black boxes in a home purchase. Turnaround time isn’t a single number; it’s the sum of scheduling, inspection, report production, quality review, and any revision cycles that follow, and thin appraiser panels and uncontrolled revision cycles are ...

Steve Marcinuk
28 Jul 2026

The company has already published over 5,000 articles in collaboration with over 1,800 market experts across all 50 states, powered by a tech-forward approach to research and reporting. MIAMI, FL – July 28, 2026: KeyCrew Media, the expert-sourced real estate news network, today unveiled KeyCrew Local, a network of local real estate news sites and ...

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