National Housing Survey Reveals a Mixed Bag for Real Estate The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® dipped 1.5 points in April to 88.3, dropping after March’s 5.5-point jump, and down 3.5 points from the same time last year. The number of Americans who say it is a good time to buy a home decreased 8 percentage […]
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The Life Of A Lead The best CRM is the one an agent uses. Building on existing relationships will keep your business thriving. Affter a year in real estate operations, I’ve chosen to return to the ranks of real estate software. I hope to put my experience to use helping improve technological efficiencies and engagement […]
2019 Residential Real Estate Market Update Australia And New Zealand What’s happening in these very different real estate markets? With house prices falling significantly in the major cities in Australia, the inevitable question is “will the downturn spread to New Zealand in 2019?” The two real estate markets are different, so we need to examine […]
A Shrinking FHA Footprint In 2019? An update to the TOTAL Mortgage Scorecard may foreshadow additional Federal Housing Administration (FHA) restrictions over the coming years. The Federal Housing Administration (FHA) announced on March 14 that it’s updating its TOTAL Mortgage Scorecard to redefine which loans need to be manually underwritten. While the impact of this […]
Gen Xers’ Adult Children Influence Their Buying Decisions One in six Gen Xers purchased a multi-generational home, overtaking younger boomers as the generation most likely to do so; with 52 percent of those Gen X buyers indicating that they did so because their adult children have either moved back or never left home. A National […]
U.S. Median Listing Price Hits $ 300,000 Based on homes advertised on realtor.com’s website, the U.S. median home listing price crossed into uncharted territory in March, increasing 7 percent year-over-year and hitting $ 300,000 for the first time. The typical U.S. home list price has set a new high right on the cusp of the […]
Driving to The Net If agents are responsible for tending to their leads and databases to eventually sell these contacts a home; what are brokers responsible for? wanted to take you back to 2012. There was a story that came out that Target knew that a young woman was pregnant before her father did.
QUALITY MATTERS It’s All About The Manager A great manager is what it takes for companies to be productive. Five years ago, the Gallup organization embarked on one of the most ambitious deep dives it has ever conducted—an analysis of the future of work based on a decade of input from nearly two million employees […]
REAL TRENDS 500 OBSERVATIONS The Numbers Tell A Story The newly released brokerage rankings offer insight and valuable information about the real estate industry. We break it down. Each year, for the past 31 years, brokers, agents, analysts, and investors have highly anticipated the release of REAL Trends’ acclaimed brokerage rankings. Without fail, this report […]
