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June 3, 2026 — National self-storage advisory team represents buyer on 291-unit, 54,775 SF facility in one of the fastest-growing submarkets in the Des Moines MSA ANKENY, IA – June 2026 – The De Jong Self Storage Team at Colliers has represented the buyer, Lekaks Texas, LLC, on the acquisition of SafeKeep Self Storage, a 291-unit, 54,775 rentable square foot self-storage facility located at 1792 NW Polk City Drive in Ankeny, Iowa. The transaction closed on May 11, 2026.
June 3, 2026 — When Mark Slade of Mark Slade Homes first walked through 25 Burnett Terrace in Maplewood, NJ, he was looking at a 1923 home that hadn’t seen a meaningful update in over two decades. The sellers had made a start – painted the kitchen cabinets white, laid some flooring in the basement – but the list of what remained was long.
June 3, 2026 — FREDERICK, MD, June 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Justin Mitchell, Founder of Maryland Cash Home Buyers, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Mitchell will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on direct cash purchasing, as-is property acquisition, and motivated seller dynamics across Maryland’s residential real estate market.
June 3, 2026 — The conversation around vertiports is fundamentally changing. Six months ago, commercial real estate owners arriving at infrastructure developers came with basic questions about what vertiports even were.
June 3, 2026 — When someone inherits a property in Mississippi, the first instinct is often to figure it out among family. Decide who is in charge, split things up, and move forward.
June 2, 2026 — Private and hard money lending gets a bad reputation, and much of it comes down to the rate. When a borrower hears 12 percent and has a bank quote sitting at six, the math feels obvious.
May 29, 2026 — Flexible workspace operators are systematically underestimating meeting room demand – and it is costing them on multiple fronts. Lost revenue from requests they cannot accommodate.
May 29, 2026 — Mark Gordon chairs the Insight Advisory Committee for the Colorado Association of Realtors and is careful about what he says publicly from that role. Some of what the committee is working through has not yet been released.
May 28, 2026 — TRUMBULL, CT, May 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Kristin Egmont, a licensed real estate agent with Coldwell Banker Realty, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Egmont will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on residential home sales, seller strategy, and local market dynamics across Trumbull, Fairfield County, and New Haven County, Connecticut.
May 28, 2026 — Somewhere in a neighborhood near you, a volunteer is checking the mailbox for HOA dues. It is probably not a daily task – more like every few days, whenever they remember.
May 28, 2026 — Most people watching the New York City luxury market right now are focused on interest rates, tariffs, and geopolitical uncertainty. A specific group of international buyers is not.
May 26, 2026 — BOCA RATON, FL, May 22, 2026 – RiskFootprint™, the leading provider of parcel-level hazard and climate intelligence for real estate and financial decision-makers, has announced the launch of RiskFootprint™ + Microsoft Copilot, a new workflow that delivers instant, defensible hazard and climate summaries from any RiskFootprint™ report. The integration pairs RiskFootprint™’s peer-reviewed, multi-agency hazard intelligence across 34+ natural hazard categories with Microsoft Copilot’s AI reasoning layer to produce a clear, auditable narrative for buyers, lenders, underwriters, and architecture and engineering consultants, all in seconds.
May 21, 2026 — More than a third of investors plan to buy zero properties this year. A veteran who has closed through every cycle since 1991 says excessive selectivity is the single biggest mistake he sees.
May 21, 2026 — MAPLEWOOD, NJ, May 21 2026 – KeyCrew Media, a real estate analytics and media network, has selected Mark Slade, founder and team lead of The Mark Slade Homes at Keller Williams, as a KeyCrew Verified Expert. Slade will contribute market intelligence and expert analysis on residential real estate buying, selling, and investment across the Essex and Union County train town corridor in northern New Jersey.
May 21, 2026 — A large number of real estate investors who could benefit from cost segregation have never heard about it from their tax preparer. Some were told it was not worth it for their property.
May 21, 2026 — Real estate investors know a 1031 exchange lets them defer capital gains when selling one property and rolling the proceeds into another. What fewer understand is how cost segregation fits into that transaction, and the specific mistake that can quietly undermine the tax benefit before the ink dries on the new purchase.
May 19, 2026 — Walk into most real estate conversations in Rochester, Minnesota and the pitch sounds similar: hire our team, get more coverage, more agents, more availability. It is a compelling idea on the surface.
May 19, 2026 — The interest rate gap between new construction and resale homes in the New Braunfels, Texas market has grown wide enough that it is actively reshaping how buyers make decisions. While resale buyers are navigating rates in the high fives to low sixes, some new construction builders along the I-35 corridor are offering financing as low as 4.
