REALTORS® Eye Chance to Grow Global Brand REALTORS® plan to further expand their brand to a global audience at the 2018 MIPIM conference, the world’s largest event focused on international real estate, being held March 13-16 in Cannes, France. At the tradeshow, REALTORS® from around the U.S. will have the chance to showcase their markets’ …
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Jan 25
Home Buyers in a Rush to Beat Higher Rates
Home Buyers in a Rush to Beat Higher Rates Mortgage rates are moving higher, and that has some home shoppers rushing to locking in rates before they edge up even more. Mortgage applications for refinancing and home purchases increased 4.5 percent last week compared to the previous week on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Mortgage …
Jan 23
Ways Your Buyers Can Prevent Wire Fraud
Ways Your Buyers Can Prevent Wire Fraud With scammers increasingly targeting real estate transactions, the National Association of REALTORS® is teaming up with the FBI and brokerage Realty Executives International to educate the industry on how to identify and help clients avoid wire fraud schemes. A particular cause for concern is hackers who send fake …
Jan 22
Why Your Clients Hate Automated Messages
Why Your Clients Hate Automated Messages f you’ve set up automated replies to prospect inquiries online, you may be saving time—but turning off potential customers. Only 14 percent of consumers say they will respond to a message they perceive to be automated, while the rest say they’ll ignore it and move on to another service …
Jan 19
Fannie Offers ‘Healthy Housing’ Incentive
Fannie Offers ‘Healthy Housing’ Incentive Mortgage financing giant Fannie Mae launched a healthy housing reward initiative that offers financial awards to multifamily borrowers who provide services that improve the health and well-being of tenants living in affordable housing. These services could range from day care and food access to youth and education programming and job training. …
Jan 18
The Fastest Growing States May See Housing Boom
The Fastest Growing States May See Housing Boom The population of the U.S. is growing, rising by 2.2 million people in 2016, according to the latest Census data. But the population growth is not even across the country. For instance, the South and West saw their populations rise by 1.1 percent in 2016, while the …
Jan 17
Builders Reveal Top 10 Biggest Concerns
Builders Reveal Top 10 Biggest Concerns Homebuilding is still falling short in many markets in alleviating the shrinking inventories of homes for sale. But builders are blaming the construction shortfall on several factors. Read more: What Your Broker Is Worried About Builders revealed the following top 10 “significant” problems they expect to face in 2018, …
Jan 15
Buying Better Than Renting in 54% of Markets
Buying Better Than Renting in 54% of Markets Despite rising prices, buying a home makes more sense than paying increasingly high rents in more than half of the U.S. Buying a median-priced home is more affordable than renting a three-bedroom property in 240 of 447—or 54 percent—of U.S. counties analyzed, according to a new report …
Jan 12
Buyers Betting on Bigger Down Payments
Buyers Betting on Bigger Down Payments With steep competition, some buyers are scrambling to come up with larger down payments to gain a competitive edge. “In many purchase situations, there are multiple offers, and the buyers who have the bigger down payment are more likely to win out,” Daren Blomquist, ATTOM Data Solutions’ senior vice …
Jan 11
Storage Tops Kitchen Uses
Storage Tops Kitchen Uses The majority of homeowners recently surveyed prioritized storage over all other functions of their kitchens, according to the 2018 U.S. Houzz Kitchen Trends Study of more than 1,700 homeowners. Storage, at 63 percent, trumped other priority uses for homeowners in the kitchen like easy to work, play, and live (38 percent), to …
