Broker Public Portal: Brokers Report on Adoption With a partnership with Homesnap, brokerage firms are finding success with the Broker Public Portal. The Broker Public Portal has quickly evolved into a viable alternative to paying for advertising and leads on the portal sites. REAL Trends spoke with two brokers who were early adopters to talk […]
Tech Firm Market Leader Joins the Keller Cloud Keller Williams has announced Market Leader, a pioneer in sales and marketing technology for the real estate industry, as a Platinum Partner in the Keller Cloud Innovator Program.
2019 Market: Opportunities and Challenges An uncertain market creates opportunity for brokers who learned from their mistakes in previous down markets. With the housing sales forecast for 2019 decidedly uncertain, this sets up to be a challenging year for all incumbents, regardless of their size, market, brand name or business model. The news about executive […]
Global Trends: Prices Will Rise in 2019 at Slower Pace Here are the factors affecting property prices, according to the 2019 Knight Frank Prime Global Forecast. Slowing price growth is the story for 2019. Five of the 15 global cities tracked in the Knight Frank Prime Global Forecast—New York, Singapore, Dubai, Mumbai, and Hong Kong—all […]
CoreLogic Releases Most Recent HPI Forecast CoreLogic®, a leading global property information, analytics and data-enabled solutions provider, released its latest CoreLogic HPI Forecast Validation Report that compares its 12-month CoreLogic Home Price Index (HPI) Forecast to the actual CoreLogic Home Price Index. The report compares the changes in national and key Core-Based Statistical Area-level (CBSA) […]
Top 5 Reasons to Invest in Belize Real Estate in 2019 When most people think of paradise it’s usually sunny and warm year-round, crystal blue waters, pristine beaches, stress-free tranquility. Often there’s an icy margarita in there somewhere too. And while different people imagine different versions of nirvana, there’s usually one common thread in trying […]
Study: Moving Back in With Parents Helps Young Adults Save Down Payments We’ve all heard the news about homeownership being unattainable for young adults. A new HotPads® analysis concludes that rising rents are making it harder for renters to save for a down payment. The solution? Move back in with Mom and Dad.
How to Capitalize on Gen Z Online Behavior Email marketing to millennials is still a hot (and super-important) topic. Real estate professionals now have an additional generation of users to consider: Gen Z. Born anytime after 1997, Gen Z recipients will become increasingly important and prominent as they grow up and start making money.
Oregon Governor Signs Rent Control Law Oregon Gov. Kate Brown has signed legislation that creates a new statewide rent control law, the first of its kind in the nation. The law, which caps annual rent increases to 7 percent plus inflation throughout the state, will go into effect immediately. The rent increase restrictions exempt new construction for […]
Is Flipping Flopping? Returns from house flips are at a four-year low, but financed flips were at an 11-year high, says new report. Top major market flipping rates were in Memphis, Phoenix, Las Vegas, Tampa and Birmingham. House flipping is continuing to decline in the United States, with some notable exceptions, according to ATTOM Data […]
