Real estate markets ebb and flow in reaction to world events, and the anxious countenance that seems to envelope virtually everything and everyone these days might suggest a volatile housing market.
But inside Arkansas’ primary residential real-estate markets, the chaos embodied by the supply-chain issues that followed the COVID-19 pandemic has subsided, and the “usual suspects” continue to be in demand, such as Bella Vista and Cave Springs in northwest Arkansas, the Heights and west Little Rock in central Arkansas, and the lakes in Hot Springs.
Meanwhile, Americans are starting to figure out why Arkansas has for so long been considered a hidden gem by natives and return visitors. Nice things can be had in the Natural State — and for a lot less than most other places, and not just in the state’s most prominent markets of Little Rock, northwest Arkansas and Hot Springs, either…