In the Twin Cities South Metro, Middle-Market Homes Are Stuck Between Builder Incentives and Rising Rates

The most competitive segment of the Twin Cities housing market isn’t where most people assume. In the south metro – an area spanning Burnsville, Lakeville, Prior Lake, and surrounding communities – the lower end moves quickly and the upper end has been surprisingly active. The middle of the market is stuck, squeezed by a dynamic that has less to do with demand than with what builders can offer that existing homeowners cannot. Jason Huerkamp, co-founder of Huerkamp Home Group of Keller Williams Preferred Realty, has operated in this market since 2001 and currently runs a 32-agent team across the Twin...

Santa Barbara, California’s Tight Housing Supply Is Structural, Not Cyclical

Most housing markets along the California coast have loosened over the past two years...

East Bay California Buyers Rushed Purchases as Promised Fed Rate Cuts Stalled

Many homebuyers believe the Federal Reserve directly sets mortgage rates. That belief has been...

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In Tahoe-Truckee, California, Second-Home Buyers Are Passing on Homes That Need Work

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On an Island Across the Bay From San Francisco, California, Condos Are the Best Deal Nobody Wants

Alameda, California, sits less than ten miles from downtown San Francisco, connected to Oakland by bridges and a tunnel. It has roughly 80,000 residents,...

In Tracy, California, Buyers Have Time and Options – and Sellers Are Adjusting

Tracy, California sits roughly an hour from San Francisco, San Jose, and Sacramento – a position that has long made it a magnet for...

In California’s Marin County, Family Money Is Helping Buyers Compete in the Tight Housing Market

Most cash offers in Marin County don’t come from tech workers carrying suitcases of stock-sale proceeds. They come from parents funding a child’s purchase,...

Clark County, Washington, Is Technically Still a Seller’s Market. It Doesn’t Feel Like One.

By the numbers, Clark County, Washington, remains in seller’s market territory. At 3.9 months of inventory, the metro area just north of Portland, Oregon,...

KeyCrew Media Partners with Eakin Group’s Ed Eakin to Co-Produce Los Cabos Luxury and Golf Community Real Estate Coverage

The partnership will feature Eakin, a Certified International Property Specialist (CIPS) and the second person ever to receive NAR’s CIPS Excellence Award, as an...

In Tahoe-Truckee, California, Second-Home Buyers Are Passing on Homes That Need Work

The national conversation about housing being “stuck” does not map neatly onto every local market. In Tahoe-Truckee, according to Christy Morrison, broker and owner...