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10/13/2026

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10/13/2026

MoveZen Property Management Expands Into Columbia With More Than Rental Management NEWS PROVIDED BY MoveZen Property Management
Oct 13, 2026, 09:15 ET
MoveZen Property Management expands to Columbia, SC, with services for homeowners, investors, and real estate firms. COLUMBIA, S.C., Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MoveZen Property Management has expanded into Columbia and the surrounding communities, extending its South Carolina operations beyond Greenville and Rock Hill. The expansion gives the capital region the benefit of MoveZen's experience, gained over more than 20 years of providing crucial housing services to homeowners across the Southeast.

/PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- MoveZen Property Management has expanded into Columbia and the surrounding communities, extending its South Carolina operations beyond...

10/13/2026

A common situation we see every fall is where a property owner priced their listing based on summer rental rates, wouldn’t budge in August despite the well documented decline that begins towards the end of the month, then spend four months trimming the rent a little at a time while the best renters signed leases somewhere else - See this real world example.

A real rental listed at $2,420 in May was cut 13 times to $1,755 by late September and still hadn't leased. Replay how chasing a falling market plays out.

10/08/2026

Because landlords get locked onto peak summer rental rates, and fail to understand how swift moving the rental market is, it’s extremely common for homes that didn’t rent in early August to still be on the market in December, but 15-25% lower. That’s 3+ months of avoidable vacancy (about $5k in these examples, as of now),plus as shown a $200 discount or $2400 in year 1. Grand total = $7,500 to find out that fall isn’t summer in rental housing. Unfortunately, it happens every year for my 20+ year career, often to the same people over and over. This isn’t investment it’s a pet project driven by bias.

https://movezen360.com/the-painful-peril-of-chasing-a-falling-market-day-late-dollars-short/

10/04/2026

Not a good sign for future rental rates: What’s behind the construction slowdown? Experts say the construction slowdown is a result of higher interest rates, rising material costs, labor shortages and zoning regulations.

After a post-pandemic construction boom not seen since the 1970s, the Raleigh-Cary pipeline is down compared to 2024, new data shows.

10/01/2026

Buying A Home Is Becoming Much More Expensive Than Renting One The extra costs that homebuyers take on to access these benefits - has been growing quickly. But the rental market is unquestionably cooling, and as a result more families are revisiting the "buy or rent" decision.

The costs associated with homeownership -- beyond just the listing price -- are increasing rapidly

10/01/2026

A huge win for all of NC though it's important to know that modern factories run with a lot less people than they used to. Caterpillar to invest $1B in new Sanford factory, buoyed by $85M in local incentives

The construction equipment maker, which has hired 600 new workers in Sanford this year, says a new facility will help increase production of compact track loaders and telehandlers. The company had considered expanding in other states.

10/01/2026

What this image shows is that for rental investors the "rent" is practically just a subsidy while you hold a hard asset in the face of deep devaluation of the US dollar. Holding the asset is the investment (backwards from how it should be due to govt policies), the rent is just a bonus. To be fair, a lot of investors bought cheap homes on cheap blocks and they will often find themselves in bad shape but for smart purchases it's almost impossible to lose these days. That's complicated by our expectation that corporate bailouts (not housing) that will dwarf 2008 are just around the corner.

https://www.apartmentlist.com/research/since-2020-home-prices-have-outpaced-rents-everywhere

09/26/2026

We would deeply appreciate your vote for our Best Property Manager of York County SC! We work extremely hard to bridge the gap between owners and renters, and we hope it shows in earning your vote. It's a long list so best to search for MoveZen or property management. Thank you!

https://www.postandcourier.com/york-county/contests/best-of/ #/gallery/?group=558552

09/23/2026

Raleigh named best place to buy a home before prices soar — again

We completely agree. Rental rates are lower than we ever thought possible in the triangle and the sales market has struggled for several years. In strong cities you are unlikely to see huge price drops on desirable homes, but you might see things stagnant for several years and then a huge snap back as is so common in our lives these days. Also buying the right home not just any home is a major factor in success that was largely forgotten during the covid years and we'll be writing more about what we saw this year that seemed to create major but not so obvious differences in listing performance.

Even though the homebuying market in Raleigh is cooling a bit, the city remains attractive to buyers, compared to many metros across the U.S. — for now.