Most homes for sale in the Portland metro area were built before 1970. That single fact, an overwhelmingly old housing stock in a rainy climate, shapes nearly every transaction, from how buy...
The days when scarce inventory alone justified a seller’s asking price in Naples, Florida, are fading. According to Michael Downer, founder and realtor with the Quintessential Naples T...
A low monthly HOA fee looks like savings. In practice, it often signals deferred maintenance. A large, unavoidable bill is heading toward the owners. Thomas Beattie is Co-Founder and CEO of ...
One of the biggest reasons long-term California homeowners never sell is property taxes. After decades in the same house, their assessed value – and therefore their annual tax bill – sit...
Two years ago, buying a home in Corona, California felt like a sprint: tour a house, make an offer that afternoon, hope not to get outbid by a half-dozen other buyers. That urgency is gone. ...
The pitch sounds compelling: buy a condo near the ocean in South Florida, rent it out, and let tenants cover your costs while the property appreciates. But the math on South Florida condos a...
A decade ago, a real estate investor seeking a private bridge loan needed one thing: a property with enough equity. The building was the security, and that was sufficient. Today, private len...
In a state where some coastal markets are showing visible strain – rising inventory, price drops, sluggish sales – Brevard County on Florida’s Space Coast is holding steady. The ma...
Insurance companies already know what’s wrong with a house before a buyer makes an offer. They know the roof age, the flood exposure, the permit history. Buyers typically don’t h...
Families priced out of Los Angeles, San Diego, or Orange County are increasingly landing in the Coachella Valley, where a four-bedroom home with a pool can close for under $800,000. Vlada Ma...
The housing slowdown in Southern California is not distributed evenly. In the corridor stretching from Temecula through North County San Diego, homes priced below city-specific thresholds ar...
A beautifully renovated home on a barrier island might seem like the safest bet in coastal Florida. But in Sarasota, buyers are learning that a home’s elevation relative to the base fl...
Automated valuation tools pull comparable sales data from nearby properties and produce confident estimates of what a house is worth. But in metros where housing stock spans more than a cent...
A new home that costs 12 to 18 percent more than a conventional wood-framed house sounds like a hard sell. But Neil Prakash, an architect working in mass timber construction in British Colum...
In most housing markets, a small shift in mortgage rates changes a monthly payment by a manageable amount. In Orange County, California, where typical purchase prices run well above a millio...
