Market Insights

It sounds backward, but in New York’s Hudson Valley, paying a higher price for a home in good condition may cost less overall than buying a cheaper fixer-upper. Renovation costs have c...

National headlines about soaring flood insurance have made barrier-island buying sound like a financial minefield. But in Ocean City, New Jersey, buyers routinely arrive bracing for five-fig...

Most housing markets respond to interest rates. When borrowing costs rise, prices soften. When political uncertainty builds, buyer activity slows. In Monmouth County, New Jersey, that logic ...

Most first-time buyers in the Northeast assume new construction is out of reach. In the Capital Region of upstate New York – the sprawling metro area anchored by Albany, Schenectady, and S...

For months, publicly traded homebuilders like Lennar and Pulte have held an advantage over individual sellers in slower markets: the ability to offer buyers below-market mortgage rates. In K...

Jersey City has spent the past several years absorbing buyers priced out of Manhattan, drawn by shorter commutes and significantly more space per dollar. But the city is not a single market....

Most private owners in Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) don’t learn the true cost of their custom home or renovation until the design is fully complete. By then, changing anything means startin...

A gap is forming in San Antonio’s luxury home market. Homes that listed near a million dollars just a few years ago are now trading in the $700,000 to $760,000 range. These are sharp d...

Developers are increasingly betting that buyers will pay coastal prices for water they can’t get to the coast for. Engineered lagoons and machine-made surf breaks have moved from novel...

For six years, Rochester’s residential real estate market operated under a simple rule: list it, and it sells. Property values climbed roughly 75 to 80 percent since the pandemic began...

Inventory remains tight across much of New York’s Capital Region and surrounding counties. Still, the frantic pace that defined 2020 and 2021 has given way to something more measured, ...

The Hudson Valley real estate market isn’t short on demand. It’s short on sellers willing to move. In Dutchess County and the surrounding area, roughly halfway between New York C...

Two years ago, Manhattan’s office market carried vacancy rates around 25 percent, a figure that reflected years of pandemic-era uncertainty and leasing volume that had cratered from a ...

San Antonio has long attracted relocating buyers, military families on PCS orders, civilian contractors, and professionals priced out of Austin, because of its relative affordability. But th...

Renters in Bergen County, New Jersey, are discovering that their monthly payments already approximate what a mortgage would cost. Local agents say this realization is driving more renters to...