Market Insights

When a housing project costs $500,000 per unit, it looks like waste – unless half that money goes into building roads, water lines, and power infrastructure that most American communities ...

Below the luxury tier, Manhattan’s condo and co-op market has a mismatch problem. Buyers under $2 million overwhelmingly want units that are updated, low-cost to maintain, and ready to...

For decades, home appraisals have arrived as dense, narrative-heavy documents filled with jargon that most buyers skim before handing back to their lender. A sweeping data-standards overhaul...

Housing affordability is the standard explanation for rising rental delinquency, and it is accurate but incomplete. Stagnant wages and rising housing costs are squeezing tenants, but accordi...

San Jose’s housing market carries an average sale price near $2 million, but that figure obscures a sharp divide in outcomes. Homes that are well-prepared and well-priced still draw mu...

The towns wedged between Newark and Jersey City – Kearny, North Arlington, Harrison, Belleville, don’t generate the same national attention as their larger neighbors. But for buyers ...

Homebuyers in the western Houston suburbs are seeing more inventory than they’ve had in years, but their budgets aren’t stretching as far as they once did. With resale homes in t...

Philadelphia’s residential market has entered a period where the margin for error on listing price has narrowed considerably. Properties priced at market value and presented well are s...

In a metro area long defined by the stability of federal employment, the Washington, D.C. real estate market is splitting along lines that track closely with buyer mobility. Single-family ho...

Homeowners across San Antonio and much of Texas are discovering that what worked two years ago no longer applies. Inventory in the metro has climbed sharply, new listings have surged, active...

Philadelphia’s residential market has long been known for its relative price stability, modest gains in good years, modest declines in bad ones. But that evenness is masking a widening...

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 ...

For most of the past decade, buyers in New York City’s outer boroughs focused first on finding a home they could afford, then figured out how to pay for it. In Queens, that sequence is...

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 th...

When average home prices dip in a county-level report, the natural instinct is alarm. Your home is losing value. The market is softening. But in Collin County, Texas – one of the fastest-g...