With nearly half of homebuyers this year being first-timers, real estate professionals can help the nervous customer in numerous ways By many estimates, first-time buyers will make up about half of all buyers this year, and more than six in 10 of these will be millennials. One poll indicated that 45 percent of millennials (ages 22 […]
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Nearly 60 percent of all spring home shoppers are considering a home that needs renovating, as rising home prices and limited entry-level inventory continue to be a hurdle, according to realtor.com®’s spring home buyer survey . Just over half of home buyers considering a home that needs some TLC are willing to spend more than $20,000 […]
Rethinking the Comparative Market Analysis The CMA is more than a means to determine a home’s value, it is key to building a business based on referrals. Many real estate professionals fail to understand how important the Comparative Market Analysis (CMA) is for their business. A well-researched, well-rehearsed and well-presented CMA is the most important […]
The Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) announced the appointment of Sam DeBord as chief executive officer, effective immediately. DeBord brings 20 years of expertise in real estate brokerage, mortgage lending, and technology consulting to the 850-member organization.
Pro Teck Valuation Services’ monthly Home Value Forecast uses a number of leading real estate market-based indicators to report on activity in the single-family home markets in the U.S., and concludes the market is slowing down. Pro Teck Valuation Services’ monthly report of housing inventory is showing an increasing number of markets that have a […]
The largest RE/MAX franchise in the country will become the first brokerage to bring real-time buyer demand insights to Minnesota and Western Wisconsin. Minnesota-based RE/MAX Results has announced a company-wide launch of Buyside, a groundbreaking new platform providing its sales professionals and their customers unprecedented insight into the buyer demand in their marketplace. The platform […]
A transaction coordinator role handles tasks such as opening escrow and scheduling inspections and appraisals so that the real estate professional they serve can focus on lead generation.
iBuyer will make referrals when a customer’s home is ‘outside of its buying criteria.’ Agents pay referral fee only if the customer closes on a transaction Opendoor has announced a new initiative, the Opendoor Agent Partner Program, which pairs buyers and sellers with highly-rated real estate agents when it is the customer’s best option. As a […]
Home Inspection Pioneer Marks 40th Year April is National Home Inspection Month HouseMaster, a pioneer in the home inspection industry, is celebrating its 40th anniversary by taking a retrospective look at the industry. The company had its beginnings in the early 1970s, when founder Ken Austin met a builder who was trying to get the concept of […]
