When buyers look at Chicago and see property tax rates pushing toward 2 percent – sometimes higher in the suburbs, most recoil. But according to Chris Katsulis, Founder & Team Leader o...
For most sellers, pricing a home “at market value” sounds like the responsible move. Pull comps, match the range, list. But in parts of West Austin right now, pricing at market v...
Homeowners in Lake Nona, Florida, who purchased between 2021 and 2023 and then refinanced to pull out equity are now discovering they cannot sell without writing a check at closing. The patt...
Converting a parcel from general commercial zoning to a mixed-use planned unit development in Lebanon, Ohio, took less effort than getting a routine construction permit in a larger city near...
In most housing markets, the question “what did that house sell for?” anchors every negotiation. Buyers pull comps, sellers cite recent closings, and both sides argue over which ...
The instinct for most real estate investors is to follow the crowd, buy where population is growing, where demand is rising, where prices are climbing. On Long Island, that instinct may be e...
By September 28, 2026, Florida must submit its recommended list of Opportunity Zone census tracts to the U.S. Treasury, according to Frances Kern Mennone, Managing Director of Industry Consu...
In most residential markets, agents anticipate demand by watching school calendars, interest rate movements, or seasonal migration patterns. In Eldorado, New Mexico, none of those signals ap...
The pandemic-era suburban boom that pushed buyers into the far reaches of the Dallas-Fort Worth metro is unwinding. Properties in outer markets are struggling to attract buyers while demand ...
Jersey City’s downtown condo market reports a three-month absorption rate, but according to Patrick Southern, Team Leader at SERHANT (Properties by Southern), roughly one-third of that...
Markets that experienced extreme pandemic-era appreciation are not snapping back to equilibrium. In Montgomery County, Texas, the reset is structural, slow-moving, and widely misunderstood b...
When investors evaluate an industrial property, they typically see one rent figure attached to one building. The yard – the paved or unpaved land surrounding that building – gets bundled...
When buyers relocate to a mid-size city like Chattanooga, they choose a home based on price, lot size, and proximity to restaurants or schools. Traffic rarely makes the short list – the wh...
Lenders lose money on small mortgages. That single economic fact prices out the buyers who can least afford to be priced out – not through bias, but through arithmetic that treats a $100,0...
The conventional wisdom about empty nesters is simple: the kids leave, you sell the big house, you move somewhere smaller. In the Austin market right now, the opposite is happening. Retirees...
