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The Real Estate Industry’s Greatest Challenge— Trust When it comes to giving up consumer data, agents don’t trust the brokerage. Most national, regional, and local brokerage organizations have some form of CRM and other consumer-facing technology to offer their agents. However, a majority of agents don’t use their company’s CRM. They use their own. What […]

Residential Real Estate Firms: The Truth About High Valuations An analysis of recent financial reports and valuations of firms. We’re aware of a real estate services company with gross revenues that grew nearly 40% over the past 12 months. Unfortunately, their gross margin declined by 25%, their interest expense from operating credit facilities grew from […]

UAE Developments: Residential Areas in Abu Dhabi Open to Foreign Residents to Buy Freehold Property The residential real estate market in Abu Dhabi received a boost this year with stimulus packages and relaxed business regulations. The United Arab Emirates is an oil-rich country on the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the middle […]

The CFPB Moves to End the GSE Patch The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) recently announced that it plans to terminate the GSE patch, a safe harbor under its Ability to Repay requirements for loans eligible for purchase by Fannie Mae or Freddie Mac, on its scheduled expiration date of January 10, 2021, or possibly […]

Northeast Region Sees Third Consecutive Month of Increased Buyer Traffic Midwest, South and West Regions Report More Moderate Year-Over-Year Declines Key Points: Showing traffic in the Northeast Region was 2.7 percent higher year over year, continuing a trend that began in May July showing activity across the U.S. was down 0.6 percent year-over-year, the smallest […]

All Real Estate is Local: Analyzing the Post-Recession Housing Market at the State and Metro Level Home price growth began falling just before the start of the Great Recession and continued declining rapidly throughout 2008 and 2009. Over the past decades, state and metro housing markets have experienced numerous highs and lows in terms of […]

U.S. Home Value Growth Strong, but Slowing Home value appreciation has slowed each month this year and is at its lowest level since 2015. The rate of year-over-year home value growth has fallen in each of the past seven months. The median U.S. home is worth $229,000, up 5.2% from this time last year. Rents […]

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Price Differentials: Are iBuyers the Relocation Management Businesses of the 1970s? The costs of iBuyers and relocation management are eerily similar. Here’s an analysis. I reviewed an analysis of iBuyer activity researched and publish by Collateral Analytics publish on August 7, 2019. In it, the Ph.D. researchers looked at up to four markets where iBuyers […]