Pipes and roadways have frozen plus air travel is a mess. Thoughts of sugarplums have passed. Now visions of warmer weather, sunset watching from your boat, and the lake home lifestyle are dancing in your head. The analysts at Lake Homes Realty, the country’s largest lake real estate brokerage, have reviewed more than 50 million…
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As interest rates rose in 2022, so did the cost of purchasing a second home. Naturally, this led to a slow market for second and vacation homes, one that left some ambitious disrupters cutting staff and budgets in the third quarter. However, second homes and vacation homes — especially those in desirable locations — are…
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From Staff Reports When people are looking for a place to get away from it all, Florida is the top state they turn to, according to a new study. The Sunshine State receives, on average, 155,110 searches from vacation-goers every single month. In addition to visitors from other states, more than 10 million overseas tourists…
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Staff Reports During the COVID-19 pandemic, housing prices in the Austin area shot up at an alarming rate as big budgets moved in and bought up what was once firmly middle-class housing. However, with the pandemic in the rear-view mirror and the road ahead littered with potholes, the Austin real estate market is hitting the…
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Staff Report Online holiday shopping is in full swing and Dallas residents are right there in the mix. Only, many Dallas-area residents are putting something on their Christmas list that won’t fit under a tree — a lake house. Why not ask Santa for a lake house to celebrate the holidays in 2022 and in the…
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Pacaso, the embattled company that offers fractional ownership of luxury vacation properties, just announced the launch of its Second Home Specialist Certification program right after the company laid off a significant portion of its workforce. Pacaso CEO Austen Allison blamed interest rate hikes on the massive cuts to the company’s staff: In the last few…
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