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Philadelphia’s median sale price continues to inch up one to two percent annually across most zip codes, a statistic that suggests a stable, readable market. For investors entering the city’s fix-and-flip space, that number is misleading. According to Aziz Dali, a real estate investor and agent at Realty Mark Cityscape who has completed close to ...
In a wobbly economy, small cost differences start to matter. In Pittsburgh, the gap between city and suburban tax rates has become large enough to redirect buyer behavior, and agents working across Allegheny County are watching demand shift accordingly. The city of Pittsburgh levies a 3% local income tax and a 5% transfer tax on ...
Original reporting from other Pennsylvania markets on the KeyCrew network.
Closed sales in the Philadelphia metro area have dropped by about 3 percent, according to recent local data. But 20 miles northeast in Bucks County, closed sales are up roughly two to two and a quarter percent. According to Hernan Alvarado, a Realtor with Realty ONE Group Focus who works both Philadelphia’s urban core and ...
Sellers preparing to list homes in central Pennsylvania may be spending money on the wrong upgrades. Millennial buyers between 30 and 45, the largest active cohort in the Harrisburg-area market, are not chasing high-end finishes, according to Maryssa Chaplin of the Chaplin Group at Keller Williams of Central PA. They care far more about structural ...
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Spokane’s residential market has settled into a pattern that rewards discipline and punishes nostalgia. Sellers who list based on what they remember from a few years ago – when homes drew multiple offers within days – are finding that the market has moved on without them, according to Kim Hagel-Barkley of The Barkley Group in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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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