“The District” Could Face Atypical Headwinds in the Coming Months By Carole VanSickle Ellis In 1783, a mutiny of Continental Army soldiers in the new United States’ then-capital city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, demonstrated to the Founding Fathers that their future nation’s capital city must not, as James Madison would argue roughly five years later, “rely on any state for its own security.” Just a few years later, Article One, Section
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The Queen City Remains One of the Fastest-Selling Markets in the Country By Carole VanSickle Ellis When a multitude of large, urban markets began cooling off with the advent of 2023, Cincinnati, Ohio, just kept getting hotter. The midwestern city, also often referred to as “The Queen City” thanks to poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1854 poetic reference to it as “The Queen of the West,” was ranked as one of
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The “City of Subdued Excitement” Could Turn a Corner in 2023 By Carole VanSickle Ellis Although Washington state remains the third-most expensive state in the country in which to buy a home, many analysts believe prices in the Bellingham, Washington, area might ease in 2023. Bellingham, known to locals as the restrained “City of Subdued Excitement,” has been anything but subdued when it comes to home values in recent years.
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The Palmetto State’s “Emerald City” is Still a Prime Location for Investors By Carole VanSickle Ellis The Greenville, South Carolina, real estate market has normalized, and that means the Palmetto State’s “Emerald City” is looking more alluring than ever in 2023. Ranked fifth on Realtor.com’s “Top 10 Real Estate Markets to Watch in 2023 and Into the Future,” Greenville boasts a combination of “better housing affordability, greater numbers of renters
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Changing Trends Bring Opportunities in the New Year By Carole VanSickle Ellis As the end of 2007 drew to a close, the state of the housing market was not confusing; it was just bleak. 10 million mortgage borrowers were set to lose their homes. New-home sales volumes had fallen by more than 26% (a record), and the median price of a home had fallen by 10%. The housing market was
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“Tennessee’s Top Spot” Could Beat the Heat in 2023 By Carole VanSickle Ellis Clarksville, Tennessee, might have been a “hidden gem” in the early 2020s, but now Tennessee’s self-proclaimed “Top Spot” market is making headlines both for meteoric appreciation and the potential for local home values to plummet by as much as 20% in 2023 according to a recent study released by Fortune magazine. Interestingly, many local real estate professionals
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