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Tech Trends: 5 Tips on How to Use Your Technology Strategically
You must use technology to make things easier for your clients. Don’t just think of technology to make your life easier. Continue Reading Tech Trends: 5 Tips on How to Use Your Technology Strategically
Black Knight Sells Optimal Blue for $700 Million
In May 2022, Black Knight announced it was being acquired by Intercontinental Exchange Inc. for $13.1 billion. Continue Reading Black Knight Sells Optimal Blue for $700 Million
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Understanding the 1% rule for real estate investors
Source: Yahoo! --- Thinking of investing in real estate? Before buying an investment property, you need to make sure that it will generate at least enough money to cover your monthly carrying costs — and, ideally, more. That’s where the 1 percent rule comes into play....
HOW TO FIND COMPS IN REAL ESTATE
Source: Ris Media --- How much is a house worth? Knowing the value of a home can be crucial when buying or selling. The location and market trends will be very important, but they aren’t everything. What decides how much your house is worth are the real estate...
GUIDE ON CHOOSING A REAL ESTATE AGENT IN DUBAI
Source: Realty Biz News --- Dubai's real estate market is fast-paced, and choosing the right broker can make all the difference in selling or buying property. There are many agents to choose from, and it can be challenging to determine which one is the best fit for...
Local woman invents new board game to teach people about real estate
Source: Fox 2 Now --- A local woman invented the Flip that House board game to help families learn about real estate. Inventor Gwendolyn Taylor showed us how to play out on the Lakeside Renovation and Design Weather Deck. Sonya Bartlett, realtor and owner of Sonya...
What are the Updates on Tenancy law for Family-only Residential Buildings in the UAE?
Source: Lexology --- Pursuant to Law Number 2 of 2007 on Regulations of Landlord-Tenant Relationship in Sharjah and its amendments, low-income bachelors or labourers are not allowed to live in certain residential neighbourhoods which have been specially demarcated for...
Why brokerages and mortgage lenders are rushing into JVs
Source: Housing Wire --- The excited and at times nervous first-time homebuyers that James Dunn often represents ask him how that whole process of taking out a mortgage works, and Dunn, a Los Angeles-based real estate agent with eXp, replies with a few trusted names....
STANDING OUT WITH CUSTOM REAL ESTATE TECH
Source: Ris Media --- After almost half a century in real estate, it’d be easy for Augusta, Georgia-based Meybohm Real Estate to rest on its laurels. With 340 agents and five offices, the brokerage caters to clients in 14 different counties throughout Georgia and...
Kelowna remains iconic real estate hotspot
Source: Kelowna Capital News --- A summer like no other may be a common refrain to describe the unprecedented sales rush in the Central Okanagan real estate market this year. The good times are likely to continue well into the future for the real estate development...
Warehouses become prime local real estate
Source: Hawaii Public Radio --- One often hears about Hawaiʻi’s housing shortage, but there’s another building type in short supply: warehouses. According to a report from Colliers International Hawaii, the vacancy rate in the industrial sector fell to 1.73% percent...
BBB expert explains potential pitfalls of reverse mortgages
Source: Fox 2 Now --- ST. LOUIS – Reverse mortgages have been around for 60 years now and they are advertised to seniors as a way to access the equity of their home quickly. Since the pandemic began more than a year and a half ago some have been turning to these loans...
The Market for Single-Family Rentals Grows as Homeownership Wanes
Source: New York Times--- The lawns are manicured. The swimming pools sparkle in the sun. And the homes, all of them turnkey and smelling of fresh paint, are lined up in tidy rows, an army of cookie-cutter porches standing at attention. Covid-19 inflamed the real...
How Industry Mogul Ryan Serhant Is Redefining The Luxury Real Estate Space
Source: Philadelphia Style Magazine --- SERHANT. is the first real estate brokerage designed and reimagined for the marketplace of tomorrow. The company grew from the #1 ranked sales team in New York City into a full-service firm that is revolutionizing the...
Psychoanalyzing the Housing Frenzy With Redfin’s CEO
Source: Curbed --- In the first week of April 2020, Glenn Kelman made a bad decision that was still on his mind 15 months later, because, he told me, “I get paid a lot of money to make good decisions.” Like so many bad decisions, this one seemed at first like a good...
