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...
A Market with Lots of Potential, but Still Some Risk by Carole VanSickle Ellis Memphis, Tennessee, started 2025 out with a bang. According to the Memphis Chamber of Commerce, the city headed into 2025 with an outstanding economic record:...
A Contradictory Market with Plenty of Potential by Carole VanSickle Ellis Although nationwide investor interest in single-family home purchases is declining, the Cleveland, Ohio, market is still heating up. According to Realtor.com, Cleveland rents are startlingly affordable relative to other...
Troubling Trends are Emerging, but the Pennsylvania Region Isn’t Giving Up by Carole VanSickle Ellis Beaver County, Pennsylvania, is considered part of the Greater Pittsburgh region of the state, and, like the Steel City itself, Beaver County is currently enduring some economic tightening not...
“Meck County” is Poised for More Growth… for Those Who Can Afford It by Carole VanSickle Ellis In September 2024, Hurricane Helene, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since 2017’s Maria, made landfall in the Big Bend region of Florida, moved inland, and stalled over Tennessee and western North...
Georgia’s Most Populous County Offers Vast Opportunities by Carole VanSickle Ellis The state of Georgia boasts more counties than every other state in the United States except for Texas, and of all Georgia’s 159 counties, none are more populous than Fulton County. Containing roughly 90% of the...
3 Specialized Markets & Sectors to Watch in 2025 by Carole VanSickle Ellis In late 2024, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its annual forecast for “The Top 10 Housing Hot Spots” for 2025. Not surprisingly, most of these markets were located in relatively affordable areas of...
A Window of Opportunity Could be Closing in the “Air Capital of the World” by Carole VanSickle Ellis Wichita, Kansas, has been a destination from its inception. Located near the confluence of the Arkansas and Little Arkansas Rivers, Wichita is named for the Native American tribe that inhabited the...
