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Sacramento, CA: Small Multifamily Housing Barriers Begin to Crack

Small multifamily housing remains severely undersupplied in Sacramento. A combination of regulatory loosening and an underused FHA program could create a meaningful entry point...

Colorado State Land Board’s Long-Term Strategy Drives Land Acquisition and Stewardship

The Colorado State Land Board manages about 3 million acres of land across the state using an investment philosophy that stands apart from typical...

Boston’s North Shore Sees Gentrification, Rising Prices & Shrinking Inventory

The North Shore Massachusetts housing market is undergoing a dramatic transformation. Once-affordable working-class neighborhoods like East Boston, Chelsea, and Revere are seeing surging prices,...

First-Time Buyers Are Struggling in Metuchen – But Million-Dollar Homes Are Selling Fast

Metuchen, New Jersey, is seeing a striking divide in its real estate market: high-end homes are selling rapidly, while first-time buyers are being priced...

Michigan Tax Reforms Simplify Affordable Housing Development but Leave Funding Gaps

Michigan’s expansion of Brownfield Tax Increment Financing (TIF) to include housing, along with new payment-in-lieu-of-taxes (PILOT) options for “missing middle” developments, marks a move...

Why Middle-Income Families Can No Longer Afford New Housing — and What It Will Take to Fix It

If you’ve searched for a place to rent recently and come away stunned by the prices, you’re not imagining things — and you’re not...

Stabilizing Distressed Multifamily Assets in Workforce Housing

The market for distressed multifamily assets is seeing renewed activity as lending conditions improve and transactions pick up. For investors willing to take on...

U.S. Affordable Housing Supply Shortage Will Persist as 2025 Construction Starts Lag Far Behind 2021 Peak

New multifamily construction starting in 2025 dropped sharply from the 2021 peak, deepening a supply shortage in the affordable housing market that is unlikely...

Out-of-State Buyers Drive 75% of New Home Sales in Pocatello, Idaho, Leaving Local Buyers Facing Higher Prices

The influx of out-of-state buyers is reshaping Pocatello’s newly built homes market. While these buyers see new homes as more affordable than what they...

Bay Area Affordable Housing Opens Door to Homeownership: More Working Families May Finally Buy

For decades, affordable housing in the Bay Area focused almost entirely on rentals. Nearly all public funding went to building apartments for low-income families,...

Atlantic City, New Jersey Waterfront Homes Now Accessible to Middle-Class Buyers

Atlantic City’s residential real estate market is changing, moving beyond its casino image to offer new opportunities for middle-class buyers. Eric Millstein, Real Estate...

Chicago Real Estate: Affordability and Opportunity in a Competitive Market

Scott Newman, a veteran Chicago broker with nearly two decades of experience and team leader at Team Newman powered by KW ONEChicago, has seen...

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In South Florida’s 55-Plus Communities, Condos Sit While Single-Family Homes Sell Fast

If you’ve been shopping for a home in one of South Florida’s active adult communities lately, you may have noticed something strange. Some listings...

Septic System Failures Are the Top Deal Killer in Hudson Valley Real Estate

In off-grid communities across the Hudson Valley, infrastructure risks that rarely appear in market data are quietly derailing real estate transactions at the inspection...

Orlando’s Housing Reality Check When the Math Simply Doesn’t Work

The Orlando real estate market is experiencing a significant slowdown that reflects broader economic challenges facing homebuyers nationwide. With only 400 sales per week...

How School District Demand Drives Home Sales in Jericho, New York

Strong school districts continue to drive buyer demand in certain Long Island suburbs, insulating these markets from broader economic volatility. While much of the...

Insurance Costs Emerging as Top Deal-Breaker in Waterfront Property Sales

The rising cost and complexity of insuring waterfront properties is fundamentally reshaping coastal real estate markets, according to Kevin Donovan, a waterfront specialist broker...

Measuring Community Success by Life Per Square Foot, Says Developer

A Texas developer is challenging traditional measures of master-planned community success, arguing that human-centric metrics may be better indicators of long-term value than conventional...