Vacation home demand near 7-year low due to costs, employer policies

Mortgage-rate locks on second homes were down 47 percent from their pre-pandemic levels in Aug. 2023 as market factors have made owning a second home more costly and complicated in the last year, Redfin reported. Continue reading

Sotheby’s snags leading South-Central Texas team to form affiliate

The team formerly known as the Southern District Properties Group at Compass will now become Sotheby’s newest affiliate in Texas, Southern District Sotheby’s International Realty. Continue reading

Turks and Caicos latest affiliate to join The Corcoran Group

This marks the brand’s 23rd affiliate overall, 45th overall market and the fifth Caribbean market it has entered in to over the course of about two years. Continue reading

Summer market will be hot, but not scorching, economists say at Inman Connect

Daryl Fairweather of Redfin and Jeff Tucker of Zillow said the market would still continue to be strong through the end of 2021. Continue reading

Second-home markets hope for the best as stay-at-home rules extend

Real estate agents in Montana, Arizona, and Florida explain how the coronavirus has impacted their markets and offer their predictions for a robust recovery. Continue reading