Real Estate
Markets, mortgages, and the cost of where we live.
Nashville Builders Are Pushing 2-1 Buydowns Hard This Spring
With mortgage rates stuck above 6.3 percent, builders in Nashville's outer counties have made seller-paid 2-1 buydowns standard on new...
Nashville Is About to Have Six New Luxury Hotels. What That Means for the City Depends on Who You Ask.
A 651-foot St. Regis tower, a Ritz-Carlton in The Gulch, and four more luxury hotel projects signal a dramatic reshaping of Nashville's...
Land Contracts Are Quietly Coming Back as Buyers Try to Skip the Bank in a 7% Mortgage Market
An old form of seller financing that fell out of favor in the 2000s is finding a second life as buyers and sellers look for a way around...
Multifamily Rent Growth Stalls in the Sun Belt as Q1 RealPage Data Lands
First quarter multifamily rent growth came in at 0.4 percent year over year nationally per RealPage data published April 22. Sun Belt...
Nashville's Spring 2026 Housing Market Is Giving Buyers Something They Have Not Had in Three Years
More inventory, longer days on market, and real room to negotiate. Nashville's spring 2026 housing market has shifted in ways that buyers...
House Hacking in 2026 Means Buying a Duplex Before You Buy a House
With mortgage rates at 6.33 percent and starter home prices still elevated, more first time buyers are skipping the single family path...
Mobile Home Park Investing Posts Best Returns Since 2019 as Cap Rates Settle and Operators Get Smarter
Mobile home parks delivered 14.7 percent average total return for 2025, the strongest in six years, as institutional capital pulls back and...
NACA Is Quietly Becoming the Best First Time Homebuyer Path in 2026 and Almost Nobody Talks About It
The Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America offers no down payment, no closing costs, and no PMI on 30 year mortgages. With rates...
Spring 2026 Was Supposed to Be the Housing Market's Comeback. Here Is What Actually Happened.
Mortgage rates climbed back above 6.3 percent just as the spring selling season was kicking off. Existing home sales fell 3.6 percent in...
Owner Financing Is Making a Quiet Comeback as Mortgage Rates Stay High
With conventional mortgage rates above 6.5 percent and credit standards tightening, more sellers are agreeing to finance the purchase...
Industrial REITs Are Quietly Having Their Best Quarter in Two Years
Warehouse demand bottomed in late 2025 and is now turning higher. Prologis, Rexford, and First Industrial are all showing meaningful...
Short Term Rental Supply Has Finally Overshot Demand and the Revenue Math Is Breaking
Short term rental active listings hit a new all time high in Q1 2026 while revenue per available night fell across nearly every major...
Nashville's Luxury Home Market Is Behaving Differently From Everything Else. Here Is What the Numbers Show.
While the broader Nashville housing market has shifted toward balance, the luxury segment, homes priced $750,000 and above, is operating by...
Nashville's Housing Market Has Finally Shifted. Here Is What That Means for Buyers and Sellers Right Now.
After years of frenzied competition and double-digit price appreciation, Nashville's real estate market has moved into balance. Active...
1031 Exchanges Are Getting Harder and the 45 Day Rule Is the Reason
Investors doing like kind exchanges in 2026 are running into a tighter inventory window, and missing the identification deadline has become...
The Sun Belt Housing Boom Is Finally Cooling, and the Data Is Clear
Phoenix, Austin, Tampa, and Charlotte rode a five-year surge in prices and population. April 2026 inventory and price-cut data tell a...
Nashville's Real Estate Investment Boomed in 2025. The Building Pipeline Didn't Keep Up.
Investment volume in Nashville jumped 40% to $5.1 billion last year. But the development pipeline is nearly dry — and the gap between...
Mortgage Rates Are at 6.30 Percent Right Now. Here Is What Buyers and Sellers Need to Know.
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate dropped to 6.30 percent as of April 13, pulled lower by the Iran war ceasefire talks and easing bond...
Commercial Office Vacancy Hits A Record And The Math Is Finally Catching Up
National office vacancy hit 20.4 percent in Q1 2026, the highest on record. The real story is not the number itself, it is what the math...
Build to Rent Communities Are Reshaping How Middle Tennessee Thinks About Neighborhoods
Entire neighborhoods of single family homes built to be rented rather than sold are going up across Middle Tennessee. Residents love them....
The Spring Housing Market Is Not Slow. Buyers and Sellers Are Just Frozen by Fear.
Home sales are down 8.3% year-over-year. Consumer confidence is at a record low. The spring buying season, which historically represents...
HUD Expands Section 8 Voucher Portability And Landlords Are Paying Attention
The Department of Housing and Urban Development has finalized a long delayed rule that expands Section 8 voucher portability across metro...
Nashville Condo Inventory Hits Highest Level in Seven Years as Downtown Glut Pressures Prices
Condo inventory in the Nashville metropolitan area rose to 2,847 active listings in March, the highest level since 2019, as a wave of...
DSCR Loans Are How Small Real Estate Investors Are Still Buying in 2026
When your tax returns say one thing and your rental income says another, the DSCR loan is the product built to bridge the gap.
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