Watch These Markets Carefully by Carole VanSickle Ellis In February 2024, the United Nations released its annual Environmental Report, warning “nearly two-thirds of our world’s population experiences severe water shortages for at least one month a year” and suggesting water use be “decoupled from...
Is Sin City the Leading Edge of the Downturn? by Carole VanSickle Ellis In 2019, the Las Vegas, Nevada, real estate market wrapped up the year with strong price appreciation. Median home prices hit $313,000, and local population growth supported a healthy demand for single-family residential (SFR)...
The Beantown Market is Still Hot, but Could Be Heading for Trouble by Carole VanSickle Ellis The Boston, Massachusetts housing market has consistently ranked as one of the hottest housing markets in the country, but it could be heading for trouble in 2026. According to The Boston Foundation’s 2025...
4 Markets with Unappreciated Potential for the Right Investors by Carole VanSickle Ellis As 2025 draws to a close, real estate investors around the country are watching market trends and local economies closely, hoping to identify the “next big thing” before the rest of the investing community...
The “Screw Capital of the World” Boasts a Red-Hot Market Rife with Opportunity by Carole VanSickle Ellis In 2013, Rockford, Illinois, also known as “The Screw Capital of the World,” placed third on the Forbes list of “America’s Most Miserable Cities.” At that time, the publication blamed “a...
Big Easy Real Estate is “Shaped Differently” than Other U.S. Markets by Carole VanSickle Ellis In September 2025, home values in New Orleans, Louisiana, also often called “The Big Easy,” dipped by about 1.1% while prices in other similarly sized metro areas rose around the country. Nationally,...
Holding for Now, but “The Crossroads of the West” Could be Heading For Trouble by Carole VanSickle Ellis At the beginning of this year, Zillow analysts predicted that Salt Lake City, Utah, would be one of the “hottest markets of 2025,” boosting the city nicknamed “The Crossroads of the West” eight...
The Magic City is Having “a Moment” in 2025 by Carole VanSickle Ellis In Birmingham, Alabama, homebuyers are accepting the reality of higher interest rates and are making the best of it, thus shoring up the nicknamed “Magic City” housing market for summer and likely for the remainder of 2025. The...
“Rain City” Posts Rising Property Values, Listing Volumes Midway Through 2025 by Carole VanSickle Ellis Seattle, Washington, home values are still heading upward despite rising listing volumes as the market enters the busy summer months. In King County, the median single-family home price hit...
