For much of 2023 and 2024, Texas multifamily operators were fighting a war of attrition; new supply flooded Sun Belt markets, concessions became standard practice, and occupancy rates slipped across the board. Now, as that supply wave recedes and short-term loans originated in 2021 and 2022 reach maturity, a different dynamic is emerging: lender-owned assets […]
Nightly rate compression is no longer a temporary correction in the short-term rental market; it’s a structural condition. Competition has intensified, supply has caught up with demand in many markets, and pricing tools alone cannot restore the margins operators enjoyed four or five years ago. The operators pulling ahead now aren’t necessarily the ones with […]
Bergen County has long been one of northern New Jersey’s most competitive residential markets; good schools, proximity to Manhattan, and distinct town-by-town character keep demand high. But affordability constraints and persistently tight inventory are now pushing a growing share of would-be Bergen buyers into Passaic, Essex, Morris, and Union counties, according to Heather Corrigan, a […]
The spare bedroom used to become a nursery, a home office, or a guest room. Increasingly, it’s becoming a podcast studio or a video set, a shift that reflects how content creation has moved from side hustle to income stream for a growing number of homeowners. Taras Legar, Founder / Principal Designer at Leg Art […]
As established corridors price out smaller developers, a growing number of multifamily investors are targeting transit-connected neighborhoods just beyond primary demand nodes, and Jersey City’s West Side is emerging as one of the clearest examples. Jersey City’s waterfront has absorbed more than a decade of multifamily capital, and the results are visible in both the […]
Courtney Poulos, Founder, SERHANT. CA, Team Lead, ACME | SERHANT. in Los Angeles, California, is helping build support for an idea that would change how real estate agents work across state lines: a single, nationwide real estate license. Poulos, who leads ACME | SERHANT in Los Angeles, recently graduated from the Advanced Management Development Program […]
A closer look at high-profile office openings reveals an opportunity for real estate markets to interpret corporate location decisions more accurately and confidently. Real estate markets have long treated corporate office announcements as reliable proxies for economic momentum. A major firm plants a flag in a city, and the expectation follows that jobs, housing demand, […]
The assumption that Adirondack buyers want maximum privacy and distance from town is giving way to a different market reality: properties within walking distance of restaurants, coffee shops, and waterfronts are outperforming remote listings, even when those remote properties offer superior trail access or acreage. The Premium Buyers Are Paying Chase Jermano, a Licensed Real […]
Asset managers answer for NOI, CapEx returns, refinancing packages, and exit prices. IT managers handle networks and security. Property managers handle tenants. The operating technology connecting all three belongs to no one, and according to Bill Douglas, CEO of OpticWise and co-author of Peak Property Performance®, that structural gap is becoming increasingly costly as rents […]
Three luxury high-rise projects are going up along the Fort Lauderdale and Pompano Beach waterfront: a Waldorf Astoria, a W Hotel property, and a Ritz-Carlton tower. For investors watching South Florida, this kind of branded development pipeline signals institutional confidence in a corridor’s future. But the opportunity these buildings represent requires a longer holding period […]
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 climbed so sharply that the discount on a home needing work often doesn’t cover the cost of fixing it. A higher purchase price can […]
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-figure annual premiums and find the actual cost far lower. That gap between perception and reality, according to one agent with 37 years in the market, may be steering […]
Site selection has become one of the clearest drivers of self-storage performance. According to Tom de Jong, Executive Vice President at Colliers, well-sited facilities are outperforming their peers by 15 to 18 percent in operating metrics and reaching stabilization noticeably faster. The Three-Part Lease-Up Equation That Sets Strong Assets Apart De Jong notes that the […]
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 no longer applies. The county’s residential market is being driven almost entirely by a supply-and-demand imbalance so severe that conventional economic indicators – rates, geopolitical risk, consumer sentiment […]
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 Saratoga – that assumption is being tested by modular home developments priced to compete directly with older existing inventory. The dynamic is straightforward: buyers […]
Home values have climbed steadily in most U.S. markets, but transaction volume remains well below the peaks of 2020 and early 2021. That gap matters more than it might seem: brokerages earn money on deals closing, not on values rising, and when fewer transactions clear, revenue falls even as the cost of running a brokerage […]
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 Kitsap County, Washington – a military-anchored peninsula separated from Seattle by Puget Sound – a broker has adapted that mechanism for private resale listings, using rate lock […]
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. Its neighborhoods: downtown, the Heights, Journal Square, are each at different stages of development, attracting different buyer profiles, and responding differently to the […]
Platform gives clients and borrowers direct visibility into deal status, documents, and communication with the Kaufman & Company team ORLANDO, FLORIDA — Kaufman & Company, the private investment and holding firm led by founder and CEO Daniel Kaufman, today announced the launch of Bridgestar.ai, a new client and borrower portal built to give partners a […]
When consumers ask ChatGPT or Claude to recommend a local real estate agent, the systems draw on published narrative content – not ad spend, not review volume, not SEO keywords. That distinction is already reshaping how some brokers approach visibility, and forward-looking agents are beginning to engage with the channel. A New Kind of Reputation […]
When families evaluate whether an aging parent needs assisted living, the checklist tends to focus on physical safety: can they manage the stairs, are they falling, can they drive. What gets far less attention, according to Doug Halperin, Principal at Elevated Estates, is the emotional and social dimension of aging alone. Halperin argues that loneliness […]
The home watch industry has spent years operating quietly, mostly outside the notice of the broader real estate and property technology world. That is starting to shift, according to Clem McDavid, founder of HomeLedger, whose software platform Watch Tower now supports home watch operators across eight states, with the heaviest concentration in Florida and Arizona […]
New Cheyenne, Wyoming-based company targets ski resorts, distressed ski assets, and ski real estate, with acquisitions already underway CHEYENNE, Wyo., August 2026 – DEK Builds LLC today announced its official launch as a new acquisition platform focused exclusively on ski resorts, distressed mountain assets, and ski real estate throughout North America. The company has opened […]
New platform at www.landbriefing.com ranks U.S. metros on momentum, employer catalysts, affordability, and supply risk, giving buyers a starting point before land opportunity becomes obvious. LOS ANGELES, CA — Kaufman Real Estate & Consulting, the advisory arm of Kaufman & Company, today announced the launch of LandBriefing (www.landbriefing.com), a research platform built to help developers, […]
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 starting over. This budget shock is largely preventable. Preventing it means adopting a practice that public infrastructure projects have used for years. On public projects such […]
When a storm destroys a roof, the instinct is to replace it with the same material. The insurance check often covers exactly that: the same style, with the same vulnerability. But in regions where severe weather recurs, homeowners and insurers alike are increasingly questioning that default. That’s according to Renee Ramey, executive director of the […]
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 discounts that would normally attract a rush of buyers. But the buyers who can actually act on those prices are almost […]
The moment a real estate investor receives their first K-1 partnership tax return, many assume something has gone wrong. The document shows a loss. Their bank account shows distributions. The two seem impossible to reconcile, and that confusion, according to Steven Libman, founder of Investing With Purpose™, leads investors to misread one of the most […]
The largest gathering of electric aircraft ever assembled just happened at Oshkosh Air Venture, and it revealed something the industry keeps getting wrong: the electric aviation revolution isn’t primarily about flying cars and urban air taxis. It’s about something far broader, with implications that reach across every segment of aviation from emergency services to agriculture […]
For first-time buyers looking to enter the Austin market — including many relocating from out of state — the metro area offers a wide range of options: a vibrant, in-demand urban core alongside a growing ring of suburban communities that are opening the door to homeownership in ways worth exploring. According to Kathy Sokolic, Principal […]
Cedar has long been the default choice for exterior wood applications in American residential construction. It’s available, familiar, and relatively affordable. But builders and architects working on high-end homes, particularly full-clad exteriors in mountain regions, are increasingly moving away from domestic species and toward thermally modified alternatives that offer greater dimensional stability and longer warranties. […]
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 novelty amenity to core sales pitch across landlocked and desert markets – Texas, the desert Southwest, and now southern Utah – with several of the resulting communities […]
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 shrank by half, and homes routinely drew multiple offers within days. That era is ending, not with a crash, but with a split. Homes […]
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, according to Heather Etzel, a Licensed Real Estate Salesperson with Four Seasons Sotheby’s International Realty. Buyers are no longer waiving inspections or bidding blindly against themselves. […]
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 City and Albany, homeowners who locked in mortgage rates of 2% to 3% five or six years ago are staying put, even when their families outgrow […]
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 healthy annual pace of 40 million square feet to single digits. Today, according to Bert Rosenblatt, Managing Principal at Cresa’s New York office, that vacancy rate sits […]
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 the math that once made the market accessible is now working against both sides of the transaction simultaneously. Sellers who locked in mortgage rates below 3.5% recognize that even […]
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 toward condo and townhouse purchases they once assumed were out of reach. Heather Corrigan, a Realtor with RE/MAX Signature Homes who handles rentals and sales across Bergen […]
Homes in Celina, Texas have dropped 15 to 20 percent from their pandemic peaks, and 5.7 months of inventory suggests prices haven’t finished falling. The Dallas North Tollway extension is scheduled to reach the city next year. It will cut commute times to Plano and Frisco, where corporate headquarters employ the relocating professionals who drive […]
Construction lenders appraise progress by visiting a job site and checking visible milestones: foundation poured, framing complete, roof on. That system breaks down when 60 to 80 percent of the building happens inside a factory miles away. For buyers and developers choosing factory-built homes, this mismatch creates delays, awkward drawdown schedules, and friction that traditional […]
The bidding wars in northern New Jersey have migrated away from the places most people expect. Downtown Jersey City – long the default destination for buyers priced out of Manhattan – has softened in recent months, while suburban towns surrounding it continue to generate multiple-offer scenarios. The competitive energy has moved outward, to places where […]
A Brooklyn resident spending an hour on the subway to reach midtown Manhattan could swap that commute for a Metro-North train ride of comparable length, and arrive home to a four-bedroom house with a yard instead of a one-bedroom co-op, according to Thomas Klug, Broker & Owner of Hudson Valley Premier Properties Realty, who has […]
When a city converts office buildings into housing, the headline usually celebrates new apartments. What gets less attention is what happens to the businesses that now have fewer places to lease. In Manhattan, residential conversions have removed enough supply to shift the power balance between landlords and tenants, and the effect is accelerating, according to […]
In central New Jersey’s Monmouth County, where bidding wars and over-asking sales are routine, the hottest zip codes are not always where the best investment math lives. According to Jonathan Gruebel, a Realtor with Coldwell Banker Realty who has worked the Monmouth County market for more than 30 years, value increases as buyers move south, […]
A data point from early 2026 caught attention in the Rochester, New York, market: property values dropped roughly 2 percent between February and May. In a region where prices have climbed steadily for six years, even a modest dip raises a natural question: is the correction finally here? According to Mark Siwiec, Broker/Owner & CEO […]
When mortgage rates were near historic lows in 2021 and 2022, Portland buyers stretched into the city’s outer neighborhoods to get more house for less money. That trade-off made sense when borrowing was almost free. Now, with rates still elevated, according to Scott Edelman, a Realtor with Sold by Scott, homes on Portland’s edges are […]
In parts of upstate New York, a brand-new home costs about the same as monthly rent, or less. That reality surprises buyers who assume new construction means $800,000-plus price tags, according to Sarah Itterman, a Realtor with Sterling Real Estate Group, an independent brokerage based north of Albany that has been voted the top independent […]
Florida already attracts buyers with no state income tax. A ballot measure expected in late 2026 could add another financial incentive: a homestead exemption that jumps from $50,000 to $250,000, according to Tony Baroni, Founder & Team Leader of The Tony Baroni Team at Keller Williams Realty. For anyone considering a move to the state, […]
There’s a moment every serious home buyer knows. You open a listing, click through the photos, and within seconds you’ve already decided whether you can picture yourself there. No walkthrough. No floor plan conversation. Just an immediate, emotional yes or no. Kristin Egmont, a Connecticut real estate agent with more than 20 years working Fairfield […]
Selling a house usually means photos, showings, and open houses. But a growing number of homeowners in Montgomery County, Maryland are choosing a different path, one that skips the public listing process entirely. Justin Mitchell, Founder of Maryland Cash Home Buyers, a Frederick-based real estate solutions company, said the reasons behind that choice usually come […]
For the past few years, buyers shopping for cottage cluster homes in Portland, Oregon faced a strange tradeoff: newer, efficient homes in walkable neighborhoods, but often tiny, sometimes under 800 square feet. That cramped footprint wasn’t a design choice. It was a direct result of the city’s fee structure, which forced developers to build small. […]
Some property managers on Florida’s Space Coast are giving landlords a counterintuitive recommendation: price your unit slightly below what you think it’s worth. The local rental market isn’t seeing dramatic vacancies, but units also aren’t renting instantly. The argument is that tenant quality and turnover costs matter more than squeezing a few extra percentage points […]
The listed price on a new-construction home north of Dallas often understates what buyers will actually pay each month. A growing number of developments sit outside city limits – technically in Collin County – where a special taxing structure called a Municipal Utility District adds a cost layer that catches many relocating buyers off guard. […]
The skilled-trade shortage in U.S. construction has persisted for years, but the industry’s response is taking a specific new form: developers are moving production into factories, and those factories are increasingly being built on American soil. For buyers in markets where labor constraints have slowed new housing and driven up prices, domestic factory production could […]
In almost every industry where technology takes hold, prices eventually fall. Streaming made music cheaper. Digital distribution made books cheaper. Software automation made banking cheaper. But in construction, AI is breaking the pattern – and the people paying for new buildings are the ones left out. The efficiency gains from AI in construction are flowing […]
Portland set a goal of adding 6,000 housing units per year through 2032. Last year, the city managed 1,652. That shortfall has created space for development models that don’t follow the conventional acquire-permit-build sequence. One emerging approach skips the land acquisition step entirely by partnering directly with existing landowners who have buildable space but no […]
The real estate headlines in mid-2026 paint a familiar picture: interest rates remain a drag on activity, affordability is stretched, and transaction volume is softening. But in the communities stretching across Montgomery County north of Houston, conditions on the ground look considerably different. Inventory is expanding in some pockets while remaining tight in others. New […]
The narrative around Joshua Tree’s short-term rental market has settled into a simple story: the boom ended, and what’s left is a cautionary tale. The reality on the ground is more nuanced. The correction that began in 2022 didn’t eliminate opportunity in the high desert; it redistributed it, punishing generic properties while leaving experiential, well-positioned […]
A few years ago in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, a house with a hole in the ceiling could attract 20 offers overnight. That market is gone. What replaced it is one in which condition determines whether a property moves at all, and where sellers who can’t or won’t invest in repairs are increasingly turning to […]
The North Dallas suburbs – McKinney, Frisco, Prosper, and surrounding Collin County – spent the past decade absorbing wave after wave of corporate relocations. Toyota moved its headquarters to the Plano-Frisco corridor. Texas Instruments is building a new facility in Sherman. Professional sports franchises set up training operations across the area. That inflow hasn’t stopped, […]
The gap between perception and data in Tampa Bay’s housing market is wider than usual. With 3.8 months of inventory in Tampa and 4.1 in Orlando – figures that technically describe a seller’s market – the mood on the ground tells a different story, according to Tony Baroni, Founder & Team Leader of The Tony […]
Construction technology has attracted billions in venture capital on the promise that software and automation would bring costs down. But for owners and developers – the people actually funding projects – costs have continued to climb year over year, even as contractors and subcontractors report real efficiency gains from AI adoption. The gains are real; […]
Two markets separated by a single zip code are moving in opposite directions. Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida, posted a 13.6% year-over-year price increase in the second quarter, a pace driven by scarce land and a buyer pool heavily weighted toward cash purchasers relocating from the Northeast and California, according to Gwinn Volen, Owner, CEO & […]
The common assumption about modular construction is that it exists to serve one purpose: cheap housing for cost-constrained developments. That framing is outdated. Modular systems are increasingly showing up in five-star hotels, commercial buildings, and resort developments – applications where finish quality and design matter as much as cost savings. The shift is being driven […]
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 buyers compete to how sellers price, and increasingly, how long a listing sits. The divide isn’t between Portland and its suburbs. It’s between move-in-ready […]
Photo credit: Sonja Zinke The Litchfield Hills, Hudson Valley, and Southern Berkshires sit within a remarkably compact geography. From Salisbury, Connecticut, you can be in New York State in five minutes and in Massachusetts in under ten. Within that small radius, however, the communities on offer are genuinely distinct from one another, and for buyers […]
High-end apartment buildings in Nashville, Austin, and Dallas are struggling to fill units. At the same time, renters in those cities report spending a larger share of their income on housing than ever before. The disconnect is not a paradox. It reflects what got built during the last development cycle and who can afford it. […]
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 Team at Downing-Frye Realty, Inc., buyers have shifted from competing on speed to competing on scrutiny. Sellers who haven’t documented their improvements are watching their listings sit. During […]
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 Eli Report, an AI-powered condo and HOA document review platform based in Vancouver, Canada. Over more than six years, his team has reviewed the […]
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 – sits far below what a new purchase would trigger. Moving means resetting to current market value, which in many Inland Empire communities means jumping from […]
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. Homes that aren’t priced aggressively now sit on the market for roughly two months, according to Shelly Larez, a real […]
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 as rental investments is broken at current price levels, according to Stuart Berger, Team Co-Lead of the Stu Berger and Ana Aizenstat […]
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 lenders who have absorbed years of defaults and litigation say they have inverted that priority. The borrower’s credit history, track record, and transparency now […]
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 market isn’t hot. It’s not setting records across the board. But it’s absorbing demand at a pace that looks more like a healthy norm than either […]
Mid-year data from six northern New Jersey towns shows buyer demand diverging sharply by submarket, with some neighborhoods accelerating into summer while others have shifted toward buyer advantage. Two Markets, One Region, One Week Broad statements about the state of the real estate market tend to obscure more than they reveal. According to Mark Slade, […]
Commercial real estate ownership research has remained a manual process long after other brokerage workflows went digital. According to Dan Mosher, CEO and Co-Founder of DealGround, the reason is structural: property records are fragmented across 50 states and thousands of counties, and until recently, no technology could efficiently connect the multiple steps required to trace […]
A home can have a brand new heat pump, quieter and cheaper to run than the system it replaced, and the listing will still say one word under “Heating”: Forced Air. The upgrade is real. The savings are real. But there is no good way for a standard listing to say so, which means the […]
In Cornwall, Connecticut, a town of a few thousand residents, a covered bridge, one general store, and one restaurant, five significant real estate transactions closed over a relatively short period. The properties ranged from a 187-acre country compound to a mountaintop stone cabin with views that required imagination to fully realize. On paper, they have […]
Most real estate coaches teach that consistent phone outreach builds a productive pipeline. What they rarely address is the cost of having a licensed agent spend two hours dialing contacts who mostly don’t answer, time that produces no revenue and pulls agents away from work that does. Justin Nimergood is the founder and leader of […]
The traditional office lease, five or ten years, fixed rent, passive landlord, made sense when vacancy in major metros hovered in the single digits. In Los Angeles today, roughly 40% of office space sits empty, according to Jerome Chang, founder and licensed architect of BLANKSPACES, one of America’s longest-running coworking brands. That vacancy rate means […]
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 have access to that same information until after closing, or never at all. That gap between what insurers know and what buyers see is not a […]
Ask Larry Mastropieri where he’d put money in South Florida today, and he doesn’t hedge. Backed by a 150+ property investment portfolio of his own and a RealTrends ranking among Florida’s top agents, Larry has spent years buying, selling, and holding in Delray Beach, and his conviction on the market is as strong as ever. […]
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 March is a Realtor and owner of Vlada March Real Estate Group with HomeSmart in Palm Desert, California. She says the value gap between […]
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 are still drawing multiple offers in their first week. Luxury listings, meanwhile, sit with fewer showings and longer days on market. The result is two distinct markets operating side […]
Drive around Austin, Dallas, or several fast-growing Southern and Southwestern metros, and you’ll see apartment complexes on nearly every block. Rents have softened, and landlords are offering concessions, discounts like free months and waived fees, to fill units. For renters, the market feels generous. But large investors say this is temporary. A building boom already […]
Most cost segregation firms in the United States built their pricing around institutional investors buying $100 million properties, according to Brian Kiczula, a Real Estate Professional at CostSegRx. Investors in the $1 million to $15 million range – Airbnb owners, small hotel buyers, RV park operators – either overpay for studies sized for much larger […]
The majority of housing decisions for older adults are made under the worst possible conditions: in the immediate aftermath of a fall, a diagnosis, or a sudden loss of mobility, according to Bryan Devore, a Seniors Real Estate Specialist and Director of the Senior Division at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, who works extensively with […]
CARLSBAD, CA, July, 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has recognized Bryan Devore, Seniors Real Estate Specialist and Director of the Senior Division at Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices California Properties, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert in recognition of his expertise in senior real estate transitions, including downsizing, aging-in-place planning, and probate […]
Regional building code disparities are creating systematically different energy cost outcomes for buyers depending on where and when a home was built, a pattern most buyers never investigate before making an offer. Two Markets, Two Different Energy Realities Where a home was built and when it was built are among the strongest predictors of what […]
Requesting historical utility bills from sellers is a standard step in residential due diligence. But according to Tim Stanislaus of Pearl, the practice produces data so compromised by occupant behavior that it cannot predict a buyer’s actual costs and may actively mislead them. The Occupancy Problem That Invalidates Seller Bills Stanislaus argues that the utility […]
Artificial intelligence can retrieve data, but it cannot interpret a buyer’s financial constraints, timeline, or the pricing dynamics of a specific neighborhood in a specific week. That distinction is becoming harder for clients to detect as more agents deploy AI tools to handle communication they once managed personally. The Difference Between Support and Substitution Alex […]
Automated valuation tools have improved dramatically over the past decade, but they still cannot distinguish between a home with modern finishes and one that hasn’t been updated in 35 years. That gap between what algorithms can see and what they miss defines the current state of AI in residential real estate – useful for preliminary […]
Century-old brick factory building to gain three new stories; Oldivai to deliver modular workforce housing — an iteration of its Project Zero model — directly across the street JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — July 2026 — Kaufman Real Estate & Consulting, together with development partner Oldivai, today announced a two-site redevelopment in the heart of Jacksonville’s Springfield […]
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 flood line matters far more than its kitchen counters or square footage. According to Tom Cail, Co-Founder of the Cail Grande Group at RE/MAX […]
The prevailing assumption in mid-2026 is that nobody refinances when mortgage rates sit in the mid-sixes (roughly 6.5 percent). According to Ron Vaimberg, president of Ron Vaimberg International, , that assumption is wrong, and it’s costing homeowners money. His mortgage coaching and training firm has worked with over 300,000 originators since 1997. Vaimberg points to […]
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 century, those estimates often fail to account for physical condition, structural age, and zoning designations that only a human can identify. According to one agency […]
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 Columbia, argues that sticker price is the wrong number to focus on. He says the real cost of a home should be measured […]
The title industry’s automation problem may not be technical. It may be linguistic. According to Jimmy Lewis, CEO & Co-Founder of TrueFocus Automation, experienced abstractors and examiners resist automation tools not because the technology fails, but because it is introduced as a threat to their expertise, and the professionals whose cooperation determines whether the technology […]
Park City has never been a cash flow market, yet out-of-state investors continue to arrive expecting conventional rental returns. According to Derrik Carlson, a Resort Real Estate Advisor with Real Estate in Park City, the Luxury Division of KW Park City Keller Williams Real Estate, this misalignment between investor expectations and market structure is one […]
PARK CITY, UT, July, 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has recognized Derrik Carlson, Resort Real Estate Advisor and team lead of Real Estate in Park City, the Luxury Division of KW Park City Keller Williams Real Estate, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert in recognition of his expertise in Park […]
