Agents as Shareholders More firms are offering ownership shares of the parent company. We look at the benefits. While there have been several firms in past years that had agents as shareholders, the idea wasn’t widely accepted. However, The Group Inc. of Fort Collins, Colorado, and Graham and Boles of Winston-Salem, North Carolina, started their […]
CFPB: The Qualified Mortgage Rule Did Not Increase Costs New report details qualified mortgage rule by analyzing Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) data. The Qualified Mortgage (QM) regulation has not materially increased mortgage costs or decreased access to credit, according to a report publish by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) on January 10.
CEO Shares 4 Strategies for a Down Market The market is predicted to soften this year. What are you doing to turn it into an opportunity?
Price Cuts On the Rise, But New Construction Picked Up in 2018 Most indicators point to a slowing of the housing market, although sales of newly built homes rose in late 2018. In another sign of a slowing housing market, the share of homes sold above asking price declined each month in the second half of 2018, […]
Point, Click, Information Service Using Photography, Augmented Reality and Image Recognition in Real Estate. In the competitive landscape of real estate technology, photography, augmented reality and image recognition has become more prevalent as a leading source to gain an edge on the competition and provide an interactive experience for consumers. With major companies such as […]
Music Man: One Agent’s Journey From American Idol to Coldwell Banker With a stint as a fourth-place finalist on American Idol, three albums and an international tour under his belt, Jason Castro decided to settle into real estate. That doesn’t mean music is out of his life forever. “I still perform at least once a […]
Agent Sends Children of Buyers and Sellers to School for a Year Julia B. Fee Sotheby’s International Realty agent Jessica Chan sponsors the annual tuition for the Chinese School of Southern Westchester (CSSW). A first-generation Chinese American, Jessica Chan of Scarsdale, N.Y., was looking for a way to give back to the community. She didn’t […]
Gen Z’s First Home Purchase: Where to Buy and How Much to Save As the discussion over housing affordability has heated up, realtor.com calculates how much an 18-year-old today needs to save to purchase a home, while LendingTree compared metro areas to determine which cities offer most amenable conditions for first-time homebuyers. A new analysis […]
Tami Pardee, CEO and founder of Halton Pardee and Partners, talks with REAL Trends editor-in-chief, Tracey Velt about her time in the real estate industry and being named the number four team in transaction volume in the 2017 REAL Trends The Thousand.
International Team Wins Zillow’s $1 Million Prize for Improving Zestimates The winning trio, from the U.S., Canada and Morocco, teamed up in the final round of the contest. After nearly two years of competition among more than 3,800 teams from 91 countries, Zillow awarded the $1 million Zillow Prize in the contest to improve the […]
