Mortgage applications were in decline last week, according to new data from the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). The Market Composite Index, the MBA’s measure of mortgage loan application volume, dropped by 1.6% on a seasonally adjusted basis from one week earlier...
Chicago voters rejected the referendum on the so-called “mansion tax” designed to increase the real estate transfer tax on residential and commercial properties sold for $1 million and higher. The Associated Press, citing a 98% return on ballots, reported the...
Vancouver-headquartered RESAAS Services Inc. (TSXV: RSS) (OTCQB: RSASF), a provider of technology solutions for the real estate industry, announced a new partnership with Zillow Group (NASDAQ: Z, ZG) that will allow the Coming Soon listings posted inside RESAAS to be...
While the ink isn’t even on the paper yet, much less dry, the recent $418 million settlement offer by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) (which it called an “agreement reached” in its press release) has experienced real estate agents expecting the...
A New York City homeowner was arrested for attempting to evict squatters from her property. WABC-TV reported Adele Andaloro inherited her family’s home in the Flushing section of Queens and was in the process of selling it when she discovered two male squatters moved...
Closed escrow sales of existing, single-family detached homes in California totaled a seasonally adjusted annualized rate of 290,020 in February, according to new data from the California Association of Realtors (CAR). This represented a 12.8% increase from the...
Hits and Misses for the Real Estate Week of June 22-26
