Zillow Predicts Housing Affordability Will Be Stretched, Amazon HQ2 Runner-Up Cities Will Prosper in 2019 Pricey and high-tax markets will feel the impact of rising mortgage rates the most, turning some potential buyers back to the rental market. The housing market is slowing as 2018 comes to an end, but home shoppers looking for a […]
CINC (Commissions Inc.) Partners with Reach150, a SmartZip Company
Realtor Association Becomes First In the Nation to Offer a Health Plan The Baldwin County Association of Realtors will offer group health, dental and vision insurance to its 2,300 members. What was thought to be impossible is now possible at the Baldwin REALTORS® in Robertsdale: group health insurance is now a benefit offered through association […]
Can You Accept That Holiday Gift? Your guide to RESPA-compliant gifts. It’s that time of year when settlement providers want to thank you for referring business to them. Here are some tips for whether or not you should accept that gift or say, “No thank you!”
Tougher Road Ahead for Home Buyers and Sellers in 2019 Mortgage rates and home prices to rise; home sales will decline 2.2 percent. High-end inventory gains expected in parts of West Coast, New England, Tennessee. Rising mortgage rates and home prices will make it more difficult to buy or sell a home next year, according […]
Redfin Launches Concierge Home-Selling Service in Seattle For a 2% listing fee, Concierge gives home sellers the option to let Redfin take care of deep cleaning, staging and decluttering. SEATTLE, Nov. 19, 2018 /PRNewswire/ — (NASDAQ: RDFN) — Redfin (www.redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage, will now offer Redfin Concierge service to home sellers in the Seattle metro area. With Redfin Concierge, […]
Zestimates Are No Match For a Real Estate Agent With Hyperlocal Expertise Conversations about automated valuation models (AVMs) can be painful. Buyers and sellers often think prices listed on consumer-facing sites like Zillow are accurate when in reality, Zestimates are automated estimates that can be incomplete. But sometimes this works in an agent’s favor.
Good News for Home Shoppers: Inventory is Growing Some of the hottest markets in recent years are now seeing the biggest growth in homes for sale. There were 3 percent more homes on the market in October than there were a year ago. The median home value nationwide is $221,500, up 7.7 percent from this […]
Millennial Outlook Tempered Despite Strong U.S. Economy EY Releases Results of Second National Poll Exploring Millennial Views on Economic Future, Including Business, Career Prospects, and Student Debt. Today, Ernst & Young LLP (EY) released the results of a survey of Millennials across the country, highlighting how the generation has defined itself a decade after the […]
RealtyJuggler CRM for Real Estate Receives Huge Performance Enhancement RealOrganized, Inc. announced a major performance improvement to the RealtyJuggler Real Estate CRM. RealtyJuggler has received a back-end hardware and software upgrade that has doubled speeds, and in some cases makes using RealtyJuggler 8 times faster than before. These performance gains are especially noticeable on mobile, […]
