The Gateway City is Losing Population, but the “Refuge Market” Remains Strong by Carole VanSickle Ellis St. Louis, Missouri, is experiencing a certain troubling downtrend, but that does not seem to be having a negative effect on the Gateway City’s real estate market. This past March, the median...
The “Horse Capital of the World” Remains Stable as 2026 Progresses by Carole VanSickle Ellis Last year, home-flipping rates plummeted in most U.S. cities as returns fell in roughly 70% of those metro areas. In Lexington, Kentucky, however, fix-and-flip investing was still going strong as the...
Student Housing Remains “Head of Class,” but with Caveats by Carole VanSickle Ellis In January of this year, Multifamily Housing News (MHN) reported student housing remained “head of class” for 2026 thanks to Yardi sourced data indicating estimated occupancy for the 2025 2026 (the most recent data...
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,...
