What a difference a month makes!!! At this time in March there was snow on the ground, winter storm damage everywhere, and an historic chill in the real estate market.  At time of writing we're enjoying our second day in a row of 70+ degree weather, and the daffodils are in full bloom (though there's still a lot a storm damage in this [...]

Snow wasn’t the only thing falling last month. According to market data released this week by the Association of Realtors, the Cape logged our lowest-EVER number of new listings for the month of February. Not only that, but new listings dipped between January and February for the first time since 2015 (which was also a brutal winter). [...]

Cape Cod saw a small decline in summer bookings compared to 2024, according to our advertising partners at weneedavacation.com.  The frenzy of COVID bookings has clearly ended and now the vacation market is stabilizing, though at higher prices and higher demand than pre-pandemic levels. We expect 2026 to have similar booking rates to 2025 [...]

It’s all about the punctuation. In 2023 this column concluded with exclamation points: Huge increases in median price! Low inventory! High interest rates! In 2024 it concluded with question marks: Can prices continue to go up? Will interest rates ever come down? Is the COVID market over? Now in 2025 we’re ending with a period: This is the new [...]

Happy New Year!  After a year of mixed signals, 2025 went out with a whimper.  The number of single family homes for sale dipped to a 2-year low in December. Taken on it’s own, that fact would be cause for concern. However, during the same period Days on Market ticked up to it’s second-highest level (32 days). These two metrics combine to [...]