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Fannie and Freddie Conforming Loan Limits Raised for 2026
The increase is linked to the 3.26% house price increase recorded between the third quarters of 2024 and 2025. Continue Reading Fannie and Freddie Conforming Loan Limits Raised for 2026
Report: Home Delistings Up 28% Year-Over-Year
Roughly one in five homes that were delisted over the summer were re-listed within three months. Continue Reading Report: Home Delistings Up 28% Year-Over-Year
DELVING INTO REAL ESTATE SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING BEST PRACTICES
Source: Ris Media --- Looking to recruit quality agents, attract potential buyers and elevate your brand? When it comes to Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and even TikTok, we have 8 best practices to live by. Social Media Marketing for REALTORS® Keep it...
A Guide to Finding the Best Real Estate Agency in Dubai
Source: Digital Journal --- Finding the best real estate company in Dubai requires research, referrals, and consideration of various factors. Ask for referrals, do your research, check their dubai trade license, consider their experience, check their availability,...
Our view: Columbus’ housing market not cutting it. We must all open our eyes to crisis
Source: The Columbus Dispatch --- It is easy to disregard a number. It is considerably harder to ignore people. As illustrated by two recent incidents, the affordable housing crisis is having a costly impact on real people in plain sight. Central Ohio can no longer...
With Housing Market Dip, 7 ‘Million-Dollar Cities’ Remain in San Diego County
Source: Times of San Diego --- The U.S. has lost 58 “million-dollar” communities — areas where the typical home is worth $1 million or more — since the housing market peaked last July, a new analysis shows. One of them is in San Diego County, in Bonita, where that...
Mortgage giant Fannie Mae tackles climate risk, but changes to underwriting may take several years
Source: CNBC --- Global warming has already caused irreversible damage to the earth’s ecosystems and communities, according to a critical report just issued from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The damage is extending to the U.S. housing...
Is Apartment-phobia Driving America’s Housing Crisis?
Source: Intelligencer --- The United States is very good at sabotaging itself through policy errors. But few of our nation’s governing failures are as simultaneously needless and detrimental as our inability to build housing. There are between 1.5 million and 6...
Houston Housing Market Forecast
Source: US News --- Houston tends to appeal to a wide range of buyers. It's one of the more affordable major cities in Texas, and it's loaded with jobs and amenities. Evan Compean, founder and owner of Compean Group, has been in the Houston real estate business for...
Despite Banking Turmoil and Flight to Safety on Bonds, FOMC Raises FFR by 25bps
In what was deemed a “game-time decision” by Fed Chair Jerome Powell, the FOMC has opted to raise the Federal Funds Rate by .25%, or 25 bps, according to the statement released today. The target FFR is now 4.75-5%, which is now the highest it has been since 2007. The...
Luxury Home Sales in Miami-Dade Surpasses Pre-Pandemic Levels
Miami-Dade $1-million-and-up transactions surged triple digits versus pre-pandemic 2019 transactions as total pending home sales and showing appointments rose again for the second consecutive month, according to February 2023 statistics released by the MIAMI...
A New Luxury Apartment Community is Coming to Norwalk, CT
Toll Brothers, Inc. a national builder of luxury homes, through its Toll Brothers Apartment Living rental division, and Harris Realty Company LLC have announced a new joint venture to develop Piper, a six-story, 393-unit multifamily rental community in Norwalk, Conn....
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