How AI Is Changing the Home Search — and How to Make It Work for You
For most of the internet era, searching for a home meant the same ritual: set your price cap, pick a number of bedrooms, check a few boxes, and scroll. Then the real work started — sifting through pages of results, opening listing after listing, digging for the details that actually mattered. That r
Negotiation Is Back
Here’s a shift worth noticing if you’re buying: negotiation is a normal part of the process again.Nearly half of sellers - 46% in May - gave buyers some form of concession, a record for that month. Price reductions are far more common than they were during the frenzy.For buyers, that’s not a warning
2026 Mid-Year Market Check-In: What the First Half of the Year Tells Us About Your Next Move
For the past two years, a lot of people have been waiting on the housing market to do one specific thing: drop rates dramatically and "unfreeze." That was the plan for buyers and sellers alike. I'll move when rates come down. That big drop never fully arrived. And the market changed anyway. It didn'
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