| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.09.2024 | The Real Estate Race: Navigating the Trillion-Dollar Markets of Atlanta and Chicago | In the world of real estate, two cities are racing ahead: Atlanta and Chicago. Both have crossed the trillion-dollar mark in real estate asset value. They are vibrant, competitive, and filled with opportunities. But they also present challe... |
| 11.09.2024 |
Atlanta’s real estate elite: Top agents in a trillion-dollar market | Atlanta is one of the most active and valuable real estate markets in the United States. The city represents over $1 trillion in residential real estate asset value, creating a ripe environment for real estate agents and homebuyers alike. A... |
| 14.08.2024 |
Denver’s housing market takes sharp turn toward buyers | Denver-based Realtor Bret Weinstein took on a client whose house had been on the market for 60 days.
Despite dropping the price to $625,000 from $650,000, it sat for another 45 days with no offers. Another price cut to $600,000 didn’t help ... |
| 29.07.2024 |
Montana’s housing market experiences a summer cooldown | Warmer summer weather has brought cooler housing market conditions to Montana.
“The market right now just feels like it’s a bit lukewarm,” said Brian Huskey, a Billings, Montana-based ERA American Real Estate agent. “There is still moderate... |
| 25.07.2024 | Indiana's Housing Market: A Rising Tide in the Midwest**
** | ** Indiana's housing market is experiencing a renaissance. Once a quiet corner of the Midwest, it now buzzes with activity. Buyers from out of state flock to the Hoosier State, drawn by its affordable homes, low taxes, and a job market that... |
| 25.07.2024 | Florida's Condo Market Faces a Perfect Storm of Challenges**
** | ** Florida's condominium market is in turmoil. Rising insurance costs and new safety regulations are creating a perfect storm. The once-booming market is now struggling. Buyers are hesitant. Sellers are feeling the pinch. The landscape has ... |
| 25.07.2024 | Navigating the Storm: Florida's Condo Market Faces Dual Challenges**
** | ** The Florida condominium market is in turbulent waters. Rising insurance costs and new safety regulations are creating a perfect storm for buyers and sellers alike. The once-thriving market is now a cautious landscape, where uncertainty r... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Real Estate Tightrope: Navigating Legal Battles and Market Challenges**
** | ** The real estate landscape is a complex web of regulations, market dynamics, and legal battles. Recently, two significant stories have emerged from the world of real estate that highlight the tension between regulations and market realiti... |
| 25.07.2024 | The Real Estate Rollercoaster: Ohio's Growth and Florida's Struggles**
** | ** The real estate landscape in the United States is a tale of two cities. In Ohio, a surge of talent is reshaping the market. Meanwhile, Florida's condo market is grappling with challenges that threaten its stability. These contrasting nar... |
| 25.07.2024 | Navigating the Shifting Sands of Florida's Condo Market**
** | ** Florida's condo market is in turmoil. Rising insurance costs and new safety regulations are creating a perfect storm. The once-booming market is now a cautious landscape. Buyers are hesitant. Sellers are anxious. The aftermath of the Sur... |
| 24.07.2024 |
Indiana markets are indicative of the Midwest regional housing boom | Prospective buyers from out of state often come to Indiana for its growing job market, low taxes and relatively affordable housing.
Indianapolis-area Realtor Annie Caruso, a founding member of Circle Real Estate, had a buyer coming from the... |
| 24.07.2024 |
Double whammy: Florida condo market grapples with rising insurance costs, milestone inspections | While there is no doubt that the Florida housing market has slowed since the height of the post-pandemic homebuying boom, the state’s condominium market has been especially hard hit, according to local agents.
“It has definitely slowed,” sa... |
| 10.07.2024 |
Interest rates and inventory challenge buyers in northwest Ohio | While Northwest Ohio’s housing market has remained fairly strong in recent months, local real estate agents say things become a bit more complicated when you segment the market by price point.
“Things under $300,000 are still moving fairly ... |
| 28.06.2024 |
The hazy, lazy days of summer hit the northern New Hampshire housing market | For many, summertime in northern New Hampshire is the perfect opportunity to get back to nature, relax lakeside and generally slow down a little. According to local real estate agents, the region’s housing market seems to have read the same... |
| 20.06.2024 |
Interest rates plague Illinois agents and housing market | Interest rates are a major headache for real estate agents across Illinois.
On the sell side, agents say that low mortgage rates from a purchase or refinance transaction in late 2020 or early 2021 are keeping many potential sellers in their... |
| 22.05.2024 |
Nothing is off limits for buyers looking to get into the tight Rhode Island market | From waiving inspections and financing contingencies, to free leasebacks and uncapped escalation clauses, real estate agents say that buyers in Rhode Island are willing to do almost anything to get into a house right now.
“It is really fren... |
| 14.05.2024 |
Santa Monica: An unexpected haven for first-time buyers | With a 90-day average median list price of $4.3 million, Santa Monica, California doesn’t seem like a place where one would expect to find many first-time homebuyers. But local real estate professionals would beg to differ.
“Most of the dem... |
| 03.05.2024 |
Opinion: Riding the wave of seasonal real estate sales | Thanks to high mortgage rates, mortgage refinance rates, and even higher home prices, the vibe among homebuyers has been fairly bleak these past couple months. In Fannie Mae‘s most recent National Housing Survey, only 17% of consumers said ... |
| 03.05.2024 |
Low inventory creates challenging conditions in North Carolina’s housing market | No matter where you are in the Tar Heel State, real estate professionals across North Carolina are frustrated by the lack of housing inventory.
“The challenge remains lack of inventory — that’s definitely the big one,” said Alison Alston, t... |
| 25.04.2024 |
Buyers are struggling to compete in the white-hot Cincinnati market | Monika DeRoussel was in a meeting, away from her phone and email, when a client messaged her that a property in their price range and desired neighborhood had a for-sale sign in the yard. When the meeting concluded, DeRoussel quickly reache... |
| 12.04.2024 |
Louisiana’s housing market has an insurance problem | After heating up like the rest of the country, the Louisiana housing market has continued to cool since interest rates began to rise in the second half of 2022. While the slowdown has resulted in a return to pre-pandemic levels of market ac... |
| 05.04.2024 |
The Bay Area is the country’s 4th-hottest housing market | As of March 29, the San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont metropolitan area was the fourth-hottest housing market in the country. The Bay Area metro had a 90-day average Market Action Index score of 61.19, according to data from Altos Research. In ... |
| 29.03.2024 |
While the Austin housing market isn’t sizzling, agents say it is still warm | It is nearly April, which means temperatures in the Austin metropolitan area are heating up — and so is the housing market.
But like the temperatures, which are far from the triple-digit figures the residents of the Texas state capital will... |
| 22.03.2024 |
Rising insurance costs, ample inventory create a unique market in Southwest Florida | Unlike many other metropolitan areas across the country, the housing market in Southwest Florida is comparably flush with for-sale inventory.
“I think one of the major trends we are seeing is that our overall inventory is up 60% year over y... |
| 14.03.2024 |
Tight inventory and frustrated buyers challenge agents in Virginia | No matter where you are in the state, real estate agents in Virginia are facing low inventory conditions that are creating frustrating scenarios for their buyers.
“I think people are getting used to the interest rates where they are now, bu... |
| 08.03.2024 |
“It seems impossible:” Bergen County, NJ’s housing market is vexing agents and buyers | Real estate agents in the leafy suburbs of Bergen County, New Jersey say the current housing market — with historically low inventory and record-high prices — is actually more challenging than the multiple offer chaos they sweated through d... |
| 01.03.2024 |
Indiana’s housing market is primed to bounce back in 2024 | Last year was a tough one for the Indiana real estate market.
“Sales from 2022 to 2023 were down 14%,” Mark Fischer, the CEO of the Indiana Realtors Association, said. “We were up year over year in inventory, but we were at a 25 year low on... |
| 23.02.2024 |
Boston is the nation’s hottest housing market | Although the Greater Boston area may still be plagued by persistently chilly temperatures, its housing market is still red-hot. According to data from Altos Research, the Boston-Cambridge-Quincy, MA-NH metropolitan area was the hottest hous... |
| 13.02.2024 |
Dearth of new construction strains migration hotspot of Alabama | Century 21 Regency Realty agent Cheryl Piccinini has lived and traveled all over the world, but there is no place she would rather be than Alabama.
“No matter what you want, you can find it here,” the Enterprise, Alabama-based agent said. “... |
| 08.02.2024 |
Agents in Illinois grapple with the state’s housing inventory shortage | Last year marked the 10th consecutive year of population declines for Illinois. According to estimates from the U.S. Census Bureau, the state lost 32,826 residents from July 2022 to July 2023.
Despite the population decline, Illinois’ housi... |
| 16.08.2023 |
Phoenix building restrictions squeeze construction firms and agents | A ban on residential building permits in parts of the Phoenix area is angering builders and agents, who feel it may curb the supply of affordable housing.
“Our main concern on the implication of the model that was released is housing afford... |
| 22.06.2023 |
Mortgage rates decline (again). What does it mean for the summer home-buying season? | Mortgage rates declined again this week following the Federal Reserve‘s recent pause on monetary tightening. However, rates on home loans remain at elevated levels compared to last year and that pause looks temporary.
What should we expect ... |
| 19.06.2023 |
Homebuilders are all smiles right now | For the first time in nearly a year, homebuilder confidence moved into positive territory thanks to strong consumer demand, limited competition from the existing home sales market, and an improving supply chain.
The National Home Builders A... |
| 08.06.2023 |
Median income earners can only afford 25% of current listings | It is no secret that housing inventory is low. As of June 2, there were 433,104 single family homes on the market nationwide, according to data from Altos Research.
And while this situation is certainly far from ideal, according to a report... |
| 31.05.2023 |
DataDigest: Where renters can actually afford to buy | With mortgage rates currently at 7.04%, many first-time homebuyers – typically millennials – will be forced to continue to rent.
But the U.S. housing market is not a monolith, so today we’re going to look at some markets where affordability... |
| 25.05.2023 |
When will housing inventory turn the corner? | While the first four and a half months of 2023 had significantly more housing demand than we expected coming out of the ice-cold fourth quarter, the real story of the year is the restricted supply of homes to meet that demand. Low inventory... |
| 23.05.2023 |
Homebuilders are taking advantage of low existing inventory | Homebuilders, whose sentiment hit the midpoint mark of 50 earlier this month for the first-time since July 2022, have yet another reason to celebrate. The sales pace of new homes has also increased for the fifth consecutive month, according... |
| 02.03.2023 | Real estate agents wonder if inventory levels will ever return to ‘normal’ | Temperatures are rising, the sun is setting later, and the daffodils are starting to peek their green leaves out of the earth — spring is coming. And just like the bears who are starting to wake up from their long winter naps, homebuyers an... |
| 03.06.2021 | Zoom Towns Will Define the Future of the Tech Industry | The pandemic put the brakes on economies worldwide, but it’s also fueled a historic housing market recovery in some areas. Now that many tech industry professionals are working remotely, they’re leaving crowded cities and moving to “Zoom to... |
| - | Texas housing markets are sagging. Data suggests it might get worse | With its low taxes, affordable housing and warm weather, Texas has been a hot destination for households in high-cost markets since COVID struck in 2020.
But the housing markets in the state’s four major metropolitan areas show inventory co... |