Inland Sussex County, Delaware Top 5 Home Sales: New Ellendale Home Leads at $1.4 Million
Two newly built homes made the list, alongside wide acreage in Milton, a Cape Cod in Laurel and a water-view home in Slaughter Beach.
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Hunterdon-Somerset (New Jersey) Top 5 Home Sales: Basking Ridge Sale of $2.5 Million Leads a Week of Five-Bedroom Homes
Every home in this week’s group has five bedrooms, and they range from a 1971 home on less than an acre to one built in 2019.
Essex County (New Jersey) Top 5 Home Sales: $4.2 Million Short Hills Home Leads the Week
A Short Hills home at the top and two sales in Livingston framed a week of single-family sales across four of the county’s towns.
Eastern Panhandle, West Virginia Top 5 Home Sales: A Wooded Falling Waters Colonial Leads the Week
Two Colonials on more than an acre each, a pair of ranch homes and a newly built home in Huntfield made up the top of the market.
Dover & Kent County, Delaware Top 5 Home Sales: Camden Wyoming Home Leads at $900,000, Smyrna Lands Two
A brick contemporary in Camden Wyoming, a pond-side retreat outside Milford, two newer homes in Smyrna and a 1960s ranch in Dover made up the week’s top sales.
Charleston & Kanawha Valley, West Virginia Top 5 Home Sales: Hurricane Homes Take Three of the Top Five Spots
The week’s sales ran from a Teays Valley farm to homes in the Woodridge, Woodbridge and Tiffany Estates subdivisions.
Burlington & Champlain Valley, Vermont Top 5 Home Sales: Grand Isle Lakefront Home Leads at $3 Million
Two homes on the Lake Champlain islands and three in Chittenden County, from Colchester to Shelburne and Essex Jct, made up the week’s top sales.
Bethany-Fenwick & Inland Bays, Delaware Top 5 Home Sales: Keen-wik Waterfront Home Leads at $2.7 Million
Two canal-front homes in Selbyville, a Craftsman condominium in Ocean View, a pond-side home in Bethany Beach and a new home in Millsboro made up the week’s top sales.
Bergen-Passaic (New Jersey) Top 5 Home Sales: Englewood Cliffs Leads at $4.8 Million
Five towns each claimed one sale on a list that stayed entirely within Bergen County, from Englewood Cliffs to Upper Saddle River.
GID and StepStone Close $985 Million Deal for 87-Building, 8 Million-SF Industrial Portfolio
GID keeps managing the light industrial portfolio across eight markets, including Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas and Seattle, through a new joint venture with StepStone Real Estate.
Seacoast Area, New Hampshire Top 5 Home Sales: New Exeter Cape Leads the Week at $2.2 Million
A new home in the StoneArch at Eagle Ridge community in Exeter led a group that also included a new condominium near Hampton Beach, a Dover home built in 1850, a Hampton Colonial and a renovated Cape in Rye.
Lewes-Rehoboth Area, Delaware Top 5 Home Sales: North Rehoboth Oceanfront Condo Leads at $2.4 Million
A condominium on the ocean in North Rehoboth led the week, and one brokerage listed two of the five sales.
Hudson County (New Jersey) Top 5 Home Sales: A Hoboken Row House Leads at $3.1 Million
A single-family row house led the week, and condominiums made up the other four of the top sales.
The Week Ahead in Real Estate
The Federal Reserve’s Oct. 27-28 meeting falls between September new-home sales and the first estimate of third-quarter GDP, with D.R. Horton’s year-end results and UWM’s rights-offering pricing window also on the calendar.
Qualia Moves Into Homebuyer Payments, Taking Aim at Wire Fraud in Earnest Money and Closing Funds
The closing software company’s new Earnest Money Deposit and Cash to Close products let title and escrow firms collect buyers’ funds by secure link inside Qualia Core, replacing checks and emailed wire instructions.
17% of Apartment Executives Facing Maturing Loans See Possible Foreclosures, NMHC Survey Finds
NMHC’s October survey found all four apartment market indexes below 50, with debt financing at 10 and 17% of executives with maturing loans warning of possible foreclosures.
Rexford Industrial Lifts 2026 Outlook as Southern California Occupancy Jumps to 96.9%
Rexford Industrial raised its 2026 Core FFO guidance after same-property occupancy rose 200 basis points, while cash rents on new leases fell 7% and buybacks reached $708.7 million.
Home Insurance Premiums Rose 54% in Five Years, Fastest of Homeowners’ Hidden Costs, Zillow Finds
Zillow and Thumbtack put the typical homeowner’s maintenance, tax and insurance bill at $16,566 a year. Insurance rose 54% in five years, led by Dallas, Tampa and Denver.
Equity LifeStyle Eyes 5.1% Manufactured Home Rent Growth in 2027 as Short-Stay RV Income Slides
Equity LifeStyle’s core manufactured home rents rose 5.7% in the third quarter and it expects about 5.1% growth in 2027, while seasonal and transient RV revenue fell 5.6%.
Vornado and Ken Griffin Close $3.3 Billion Loan for 350 Park Avenue as Construction Gets Underway
Vornado, Ken Griffin and Rudin closed their 350 Park Avenue joint venture, Citadel’s 1.05 million-square-foot lease and a $3.3 billion construction loan from seven banks on Oct. 21.
York, Pennsylvania Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: $1.3 Million Spring Grove Farmhouse Leads a Week of Acreage
Spring Grove had the two highest-priced sales of the week, and only one of the five homes came with less than nine acres of land.
Worcester, Massachusetts Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: Boylston Contemporary Leads at $2.1 Million
Two contemporaries, a Craftsman lake home and a pair of Colonials that sold for the same price made up the week’s top tier in five different towns.
Winston-Salem, North Carolina Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: Highland Park Townhouse Leads a Week Reaching Kernersville and Denton
A townhouse took the top spot, and all five sales landed between $849,950 and $1,008,000.
Hampton Roads-Currituck Beaches, Virginia Top 5 Home Sales: Whalehead Club Home Leads at $1.65 Million
Three beach homes in Corolla, a sound-view home in Harbinger and a waterfront contemporary in Port Haywood made up the top of the market.
Syracuse, New York Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: Cazenovia Lakefront Estate Leads at $1.95 Million
A compound on Cazenovia Lake and a ridgetop home on more than 25 acres outside the same village led a week of country and lake properties.
Springfield, Massachusetts Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: A West Springfield Brick Ranch Leads at $900,000
Sales in five towns, from West Springfield to Wilbraham, made up the week’s top tier, with prices running from $620,000 to $900,000.
Scranton-Wilkes-Barre Area, Pennsylvania Top 5 Home Sales: Glen Meadows Home Leads at $679,900
Every home in the week’s top five sits on more than an acre, and four of the five are in Lackawanna County.
Rochester, New York Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: A Central Business District Condominium Leads, With Homes in Canandaigua, Pittsford and Victor
The week’s top sales ran from a condominium in Rochester’s Central Business District to a home on a golf course in Victor.
Richmond, Virginia Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: Gated Henley Contemporary Leads at $2.1 Million
A home finished in 2025 on nearly three acres led the week, followed by a custom West End home and three older brick homes in the city of Richmond, the oldest of them designed in 1921.
Raleigh, North Carolina Metro Area Top 5 Home Sales: Lochmere Lakefront Home in Cary Leads at $1.95 Million
Two sales in Cary, two in Wake Forest and one in Raleigh, ranging from $1.515 million to $1.95 million, made up the week’s top five.