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, […]
The Desolate Wilderness
Wendi Harrelson, Keller Williams regional director for the South Texas region, talks with editor-in-chief, Tracey Velt about lessons learned, personal passions and their top strategies for recruiting and retaining productive agents.
Single-Family Starts Post Slight Decline as Builders Grapple With Affordability Issues Rising housing affordability concerns continue to weigh on single-family production even as total housing starts edged higher in October. According to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Commerce Department, total housing starts rose 1.5 percent in […]
Breaking Down a 5-Star Homebuying Experience With trustworthiness in real estate agents remaining low (per Gallup, only 18% of Americans think real estate agents have high ethical standards), Open Listings wanted to identify ways to increase buyer trust & satisfaction by studying the traits modern homebuyer value in great real estate agents.
UpNest Earns Place on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500 List UpNest, a fast-growing real estate agent marketplace, announced it was ranked number 85 on Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500™, and number 21 in the Bay Area. Technology Fast 500™ is a ranking of the 500 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, life sciences and energy tech companies in North […]
