The latest Daft report found that the average market rent for a two-bedroom apartment in Galway city is now nearly €2,300. According to the report, market rents rose sharply in the first quarter of 2026, with the national average increasing by 4.4pc between December and March. This is the largest quarterly increase in rents in a series extending back to 2002. Galway city market rents are up 18.4pc year-on-year with average market rent of a two-bedroom apartment at €2,290.
The main purpose of this scheme and especially for its current extension, is to increase the availability of residential property and to revitalise certain city/town centres around the country that have high levels of vacancy, dereliction and under use. This scheme when originally introduced provided tax relief for certain commercial property, as well as for residential owner-occupiers on refurbishment and conversion works (extended on 1st January 2017 to certain residential landlords) located in the historic city centres of Cork, Dublin, Galway, Kilkenny, Limerick and Waterford.
Cash Now, More Later is designed to give sellers immediate liquidity while allowing them to participate in potential upside when the home later resells on the open market. Agents participating in Cash Now, More Later transactions can earn two commissions: a bonus commission between 1% and 2% when Opendoor initially purchases the home, followed by their standard commission when the property is resold. Agents also remain the listing agent of record throughout the process.
A villa, apartment, or townhouse in Southern Europe may look affordable compared with prime London property, but the asking price is not the full cost of ownership. In Greece, buyers should usually allow around 7-10% of the property price for transaction costs, depending on the deal. The main cost is the property transfer tax. Greece's tax authority states that the standard real estate transfer tax is 3% of the taxable value, plus a small municipal levy.
The Clear Cooperation Policy (CCP) is not technically dead. It is still a rule in NAR's rulebook, still officially binding on every member MLS. But now, the rule is being ignored at scale. Brokerages are operating around it. MLSs are quietly declining to enforce it. And, in the last two weeks of April and the first two weeks of May 2026, the structural alternative to CCP, the system that will replace it, came into focus.
Even so, the first-quarter data marked the 17th consecutive quarter that both the NAHB borrower survey and the Fed lender survey have been in negative territory. For homebuilders and developers, the alignment between the two series underscores that tighter credit is not anecdotal or lender-specific. It has been a broad, cyclical constraint on project pipelines since 2022, even as underlying demand for new homes has remained solid.
HousingWire and MAXA Designs recognized the companies redefining what strong branding looks like in today's housing market during the 2025 Exhibit Awards. Now in its fourth year, the Exhibit Awards program celebrates the marketing, branding and business development teams shaping the mortgage and real estate industry. Through a new collaboration with HousingWire, the program grew this year to include 13 total winners across both national and regional categories.
At 20 feet long and 8 feet wide, the Tulsi by Simplify Further Tiny Homes doesn't try to be anything it isn't. It has everything you need, and nothing you don't. That restraint is exactly what makes it work. While the tiny home market is crowded with builds that either sacrifice livability for aesthetics or pile on features that inflate the price tag, the Tulsi threads the needle - landing at a starting price of $35,000 for a fully functional, NOAH-certified home on wheels.
For more than two decades, Chattanooga has used payment-in-lieu-of-taxes agreements to reshape its downtown. But the tax-break tool that once helped fill the Tennessee River city with market-rate apartments has been retooled for a different purpose: mixing affordable and market-rate units. City officials say seven of every 10 renters are either rent-burdened or severely rent-burdened.
Fore Real focuses on four services: property tax appeals, insurance compliance, lease abstraction and tenant communications. Pegasus provided the use of data from its portfolio as a participant in the joint venture. Fore brought technical expertise, accumulated over its 4-year history as a private company.
Most lost deals in a brokerage are invisible. They don't show up in a report. Nobody flags them. They just never happen. A buyer reaches out, an inquiry comes in, and somewhere in the first few minutes the momentum is gone. The deal didn't fall through on price or inventory. It fell through in the gap between the inquiry landing and anyone doing something useful with it. That gap is what I want to talk about, because I think it's where most brokerage teams are quietly leaving money on the table.
