Real Estate Blog

For the second time, Cincinnati’s Citirama home show will take place outside of the city limits.

The 15th edition of Citirama is scheduled to run Sept. 7 through Sept. 15. It is being held in Springrose Meadows and produced by the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati in partnership with the city of Springdale.

The site developer for Springrose Meadows is Meierjohan Building Group, which has developed many previous Citirama sites. To get a look at the homes in this year’s show, click…

This week’s “on the market” takes a look at some of the most expensive homes for sale in Wildwood.

The home’s featured this week are located in the 63038 and 63005 ZIP codes, which include Wildwood. In the first half of 2019, the two ZIP codes had a combined 435 home sales. The median sale price was $461,875 in the 63038 ZIP code and $555,248 in the 63005 ZIP code.

Here’s a glimpse at some of the priciest homes on the market in Wildwood:

19203 Brookhollow Drive, $2.8 million: Built in 2005,…

A coalition of San Francisco-area organizations and lawmakers wants to stop an Arizona developer from proceeding with a project at one of the Bay Area’s most controversial waterfront sites.

A new state law aims to shorten the time it takes to review applications for new subdivisions in Austin and elsewhere in Texas. But city of Austin staff worry how they're going to adequately review applications under the tighter timelines.

Deep Creek holds 73% of Maryland's total lake real estate market value.

This decision came after the company commissioned a survey of 1,000 recent homebuyers that showed more than half of buyers didn’t know how much money their agents made or how.

Home prices on Oahu declined in August, compared to last year, while sales of single-family homes increased and sales of condominiums decreased, according to statistics from the Honolulu Board of Realtors.

There were 360 single-family homes sold on Oahu last month, a decline of 1.7% from 354 sold in August 2018. The median price of those homes was $790,000, which was a decline of 2.5% from $810,000 in August 2018.

The median price of a condominium on Oahu also declined, to $419,500, a decline of…

Annual new single-family homes built over the last decade has more than doubled and Bend-area homebuilding growth has been even stronger.

Mortgage rates have reached their lowest level in three years, but that hasn’t been enough to jumpstart home sales in metro Denver.

Buyers purchased 5,219 homes and condos last month in metro Denver, a nearly 11% decline from July and a 7.9% drop from August of last year, according to the Denver Metro Association of Realtors market trends report.

Measured across the first eight months of this year, home sales in metro Denver are down 0.72% compared to the same period of time last year.

The decline in sales is happening despite 30-year mortgage rates that are at 3.49 percent, the lowest rate seen since October 2016, according to Freddie Mac.

“Super-low mortgage rates have not yet consistently pulled buyers back into the market,” Lawrence Yun, chief economist with the National Association of Realtors, said last week.

Economic uncertainty appears to be holding back some buying demand, Yun said, but he continues to argue the market desperately needs builders to step up and construct m..

Hundreds of Denver property owners are shutting the door on short-term rental investments as Denver cracks down on rule-breakers in a way no other American city is doing.

As of Thursday, 154 people have surrendered their licenses and another 126 have withdrawn applications this year as four people faced felony criminal charges for falsifying documents related to their rental properties, according to data obtained by The Denver Post from the city’s Department of Excise and Licenses. In 2018, 93 surrendered licenses and no one withdrew an application.

The surge in surrenders and withdrawals has come as the city began asking property owners to sign affidavits, swearing they were in compliance with a rule that their short-term rental locations were also their primary residences. This summer, the Denver District Attorney’s Office, in cooperation with the excise and licenses department, began filing criminal charges against people who investigators say lied on their paperwork.

“This was a..