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Mike McCann, The Real Estate Man

HGTV Opens Voting for 2019 Ultimate House Hunt Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® and Luxury Portfolio International® announce the launch of the HGTV Ultimate House Hunt 2019, a month-long online promotion held each year on HGTV.com. This is the eighth consecutive year HGTV has aligned exclusively with Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® and Luxury […]

Compass Development Names Regional Director, West Coast Compass has named Sandra Eaton as Regional Director, West Coast, for its Compass Development, a division that provides sales and marketing services for luxury urban residential developments.  

It’s Complicated: The Home Search for Parents with Children Real estate professionals know that with school letting out for summer, the scramble is on for many families seeking to buy their first home or move into a larger one before school resumes in September. Having children changes people, and for home buyers that translates into […]

Gap Narrows Between Homeowners’ Perceptions and Appraised Value The average home appraisal in May was 0.79% lower than what the owner estimated, according to the Quicken Loans Home Price Perceptions Index. While a lower-than-expected appraisal is never welcome news, this difference between homeowner estimates and appraisal values is slightly smaller in April, and the first […]

NAR’s REACH Program Invests in Proptech Platform Propy Propy, a Silicon Valley real estate startup, announced that Second Century Ventures, a real estate technology fund backed by the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), has invested in Propy’s proptech platform through REACH Program. This partnership will help leverage the NAR’s network of 1.3 million REALTORS® and […]

Columbus Realtors and Friends Tackle 39 Service Projects for Day of Service Although Realtors donate time and talent to their communities throughout the year, a one-day event in early June organized by Columbus REALTORS® focused the energy of hundreds of volunteers all over central Ohio.

Delinquent Mortgages Down from Year Ago According to a new report from CoreLogic, 4% of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency (30 days or more past due, including those in foreclosure) in March 2019, a 0.3-percentage-point decline in the overall delinquency rate compared with March 2018, when it was 4.3%. This was the lowest […]

Wealthy Millennials Are on the Move Mark Zuckerberg, CEO and co-founder of Facebook, may have been on the forefront of a migration trend when he relocated to California from Massachusetts.