Trulia Names America’s Friendliest Spirited and Most Dog- and Kid-Friendly Neighborhoods. TruliaⓇ, a home and neighborhood site for homebuyers and renters, today announces the national and local winners of The 2018 Neighborly Awards. Nearly 10,000 neighborhoods spanning coast to coast were ranked based on more than 20 million written reviews and answered polls by participating […]
Simon Chen, CEO of ERA Real Estate talks with editor-in-chief, Tracey Velt about what drives ERA Real Estate to succeed as well as insights about the industry and its future.
NRT Unites Technology And Service With Launch Of Listing Concierge Listings experienced as much as a 7% higher sale price. NRT LLC, the nation’s largest real estate brokerage, announced the launch of Listing Concierge, a comprehensive marketing program that marries leading-edge technology with meticulous personalized service to offer customized and automated property listing marketing. […]
Single Women More Likely to Be Homeowners Than Single Men Lending Tree study found single women are outpacing single men in homeownership. In much of the United States, single women are outpacing single men when it comes to homeownership. This trend may be somewhat surprising, given the average woman in the U.S. only makes 80% of what […]
Realtor.com Launches Texting Option to Connect Homebuyers and Agents Consumers can now use SMS to indicate their interest in a property to a realtor.com representative, who will then match and connect them to a real estate professional on the phone. Realtor.com, the Home of Home Search℠, has announced a new text messaging feature that helps facilitate […]
Long & Foster Wins China-Focused Property Marketing Awards Awards involved popular Chinese consumer vote. U.S. real estate network Long & Foster was one of 20 of the world’s very best China-focused real estate marketers that were named winners of the Global Chinese Choice Award by Juwai.com at a gala black-tie dinner event in Shanghai on […]
Delinquency Rates Are Up In Natural Disaster Areas But Down Nearly Everywhere Else CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights. U.S. serious delinquency and foreclosure rates were the lowest for September in 12 years The overall past due rate has fallen on a year-over-year basis for the past nine consecutive months In the wake of major natural disasters […]
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, REALTORS® Launches New Agent Resource Center The high-tech platform combines the industry’s best-of-class marketing solutions. Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach, REALTORS®, the fifth-largest provider of brokerage and related services in the United States, today launched its new state-of-the-art marketing technology platform and agent resource center, the Berkshire Hathaway […]
Homelessness Rate Increases Faster In The Least Affordable Rental Markets If the rent burden increases by 2 percentage points, an additional 1,500 Americans will become homeless. An estimated 661,000 people were homeless in 2017, more than 100,000 more than were officially reported. The expected homelessness rate in a community increases at an accelerated pace after […]
Housing Sentiment Up Slightly Based on Reported Household Income Gains. The Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI) increased slightly in November, rising 0.5 points to 86.2. The increase can be attributed primarily to an increase in the net share of Americans who reported significantly higher income, which hit a new survey high after jumping 5 percentage points. […]
