Housing Market California Both Realtors, investors, home buyers and renters across California continue to wait in limbo for the 2024 California housing market to unfold.  Is this spring the "inflection point" the media have touted for markets? Is this the year, frustrated buyers will finally have the opportunity to buy, or will rising home prices…

30 Key Trends for the Property Management Industry in 2024 As you turn your attention ahead to the new year, you might be carrying a large set of legacy business challenges with you. Rent payment delays, falling rent, rising vacancy rates, debt, fewer trained staff and higher wage costs, higher maintenance and financing costs, rent…

Corporate Landlords Selling Properties? The big news in 2023 was about corporate landlords and billion dollar-sized investment firms buying up rental houses and condos. Fast forward to late 2023, and there are signs these mega-sized firms are selling off some multifamily properties due to high financing costs and a rental market that is cooling. After…

Real Estate Housing Market Forecast US resale home sales have dropped to their lowest level since 2010. The lagging effect of fast-rising mortgage rates, mortgage rate lock ins, and tougher loan qualification has stopped first-home buyers from entering the housing market, and homeowners are locked in at previous lower mortgage rates and can't sell. The…

Australian Housing Market Forecast The latest recession appears to have hit the Australian housing market fairly hard, and some worry the housing market might slide hard from here to May. Some housing market experts forecast a dim outlook.  Adelaide Timbrell, senior economist at ANZ. believes Australian housing prices are on a steep decline and will…