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American Real Estate Association Starts Petition to End NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy
AREA seeks to promote the petition on social media with the hashtag #EndCC. Continue Reading American Real Estate Association Starts Petition to End NAR’s Clear Cooperation Policy
NAR Publishes Consumer Resource Series on Post-Settlement Practices
NAR President Kevin Sears said the series “provides an exceptionally clear roadmap for the process of working with an agent who is a realtor.” Continue Reading NAR Publishes Consumer Resource Series on Post-Settlement Practices
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SentriLock Expands Basic Tier for SentriKey Showing Service
The basic tier of SentriKey Showing Service provides realtors with a complete showing and client management tool. Continue Reading SentriLock Expands Basic Tier for SentriKey Showing Service
Tech Trends: Technology Needs to Make Your Life Easier, Or It’s Not Worth It
“I’ve done over 3,000 loans in my career,” said Uplist President Jeff Bell. Continue Reading Tech Trends: Technology Needs to Make Your Life Easier, Or It’s Not Worth It
CRMLS Now Offering CubiCasa’s Floor Plan Product
CRMLS users will receive special access to free floor plans, discounts on add-on features, and access to a network of real estate photographers. Continue Reading CRMLS Now Offering CubiCasa’s Floor Plan Product
MLO recession survival guide Part 2: Buyers’ agents and underwater home sellers
Source: firsttuesday Journal --- Consumer mortgage originations plummet — so what now? The rapid mortgage interest rate hikes of 2022 caught homebuyers and sellers completely off balance. With prices toppling traditional sales volume and mortgage rates essentially...
Reflecting Its Growing Market Domination, Heroic Headshots Becomes Headshots.com
Staggering Growth Rate Gives Company Springboard for Name Change; Expected to Raise Awareness in the Real Estate Industry, Where Headshots Are Vital LOS ANGELES (November 28, 2022) --When your company experiences an astounding 1,000% YOY growth rate, you’ve got to be...
Will 2023 Be a Good Year to Refinance a Mortgage?
Source: The Ascent --- When mortgage rates dropped to record lows in 2020, homeowners across the country rushed to refinance their loans. And many were able to reap a lot of savings in the process. But refinance volume has slowed down significantly this year, and for...
The 9 US cities where buyers have the best shot at scoring a home because home prices have dropped the most since the spring
Source: Insider --- Throughout much of the pandemic, rock-bottom mortgage rates, as well government aid meant to stimulate the US economy, spurred on an unprecedented home-buying bonanza. Enticed by the desire for larger living spaces and the ability live virtually...
Regular homebuyers in Las Vegas and Phoenix stand a chance now that investors are fleeing pandemic boomtowns
Source: Insider --- Investors are retreating from pandemic boomtowns like Phoenix, Arizona and Las Vegas, Nevada as home prices continue to fall in those markets, according to a new analysis from real estate brokerage Redfin. Overall, investors purchased $42.4 billion...
ECHO offers lease incentives to real estate agents for placing homeless tenants
Source: Austin Monitor --- Real estate agents in Austin have an incentive to find market-rate homes for those experiencing homelessness, and help one of the city’s main homeless services nonprofits lower the number of people facing housing instability. Austin’s Ending...
The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Remote Work on U.S. Housing Markets
Source: Economic Innovations Group --- The rapid growth of remote work has ushered in a variety of economic changes, with notable impacts on the housing market. An emerging literature suggests remote work has shifted both where people live and how much housing they...
When real estate agents fire clients
Source: The Real Deal --- Breaking up is hard to do. But even the most tolerant real estate agents reach their limits and have to bid farewell to a client from time to time, as three brokers shared in interviews with The Wall Street Journal. Compass agent Cindy...
How Real Estate Agents Are Using QR Code Technology To Simplify The Home-Buying Experience
Source: Forbes --- The popularity of QR codes have seen many ups and downs over the course of its almost 30-year existence, but with the need for contact-less menus and transactions during the pandemic, barcode technology is coming back in a big way. From...
Reverse mortgages explained
Source: Observer Reporter --- Q. With reference to a recent column in which the reader said she had lost her home to a reverse mortgage, there are two primary ways this can happen, and I want to explain how to avoid this so that it never happens to any other reader....
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