Tech Trends: As you plan your 2024 outreach strategy, don’t ignore video. Why? According to Brafton (https://www.brafton.com/) video marketing is powerful because it doesn’t take much effort for users to click and watch videos (especially if they’re short), meaning...
A new forecast by Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR), is predicting the sale of 4.71 million existing homes during 2024. Speaking before NAR’s fifth annual year-end Real Estate Forecast Summit: The Year Ahead, Yun predicted...
The Federal Reserve has opted to ring out 2023 by keeping rates unchanged. The central bank’s policy making Federal Open Market Committee voted unanimously to hold the federal funds rate in the range of 5.25% to 5.5%. In offering its decision, the Fed presented a...
Mortgage application activity was on the rise again, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) for the week ending Dec. 8. The MBA’s Market Composite Index was up by 7.4% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier while the unadjusted...
The median asking rent in November declined 2.1% from one year ago to $1,967, according to new data from Redfin (NASDAQ:RDFN). This represents the biggest annual drop since February 2020; the decline from October was 0.6%. “Renters are finally catching a break,” said...
A corner of Warren Buffett’s business empire is being lassoed into the percolating controversy on real estate commissions. Reuters reported that Everest Consulting Group LP, an affiliate of Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRK.A) and Anywhere Real Estate...
