After launching a new website with some wow features such as a visual search for homebuyers and personalized match scores, Homes.com is focused on making home search easy and “connecting buyers to agents who can help them,” says David Mele, President of Homes.com. “We don’t plan to get into the transaction. But, there is a […]
Implementing a search engine optimization (SEO) campaign that allows you to compete with the listing portals can be difficult. Portals continue to dominate search results and retain the mass amounts of traffic due to their national presence and unlimited budgets. That’s why your brokerage must find ways to capitalize on and nurture opportunities not deemed […]
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U.S. HOME PRICES AT LEAST AFFORDABLE LEVEL SINCE Q3 2008 Home Prices Less Affordable Than Historic Averages In 59 Percent of Local Markets; 75 Percent of Local Markets Not Affordable for Average Wage Earners
Some people inherit their millions; others build companies or participate in sound investment strategies. Not into any of those? Just buy a house in an emerging market and wait comfortably for its value to surge past the $1 million mark.
Mortgage Payments Require Largest Share of Income Since 2009 Rising mortgage payments chip away at relatively affordable monthly housing costs Americans have enjoyed for a decade.
Differentiation Through Technology & Innovation Innovation is coming fast and furious to the real estate industry and many brokers are focused on adding value for the customer and differentiating their brokerage from the pack. VIVO Realty, with two storefront offices in Dallas and one storefront office in Plano, Texas, decided the way to offer that […]
In episode 8 of the REALTrending podcast series, REAL Trends President Steve Murray gives his take on how to compete with new business models, whether brokers need a robust tech platform to have a competitive advantage and what books CEOs should read. Plus, the Fed keeps raising interest rates. What impacts will this have […]
The market for the sale and purchase of brokerage companies is at an all-time high right now. REAL Trends has done more valuations so far this year than it did in a full year just a short time ago. We are also representing more sellers than ever in our 31-year history. And, it’s across the […]
Housing Starts Rise Total housing starts rose 5 percent in May to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.35 million units, according to newly released data from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Commerce Department. This is the highest housing starts report since July 2007.
