Expensive homes miss the recovery
In recent weeks, mortgage brokers, bankers, and even Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke have been talking about a housing rebound later this year. And the figures seem to back up their optimism: New home sales...
View ArticleReal Estate Bloggers Wanted!
Welcome to Real Inventive – a fresh, innovative real estate blog that provides an online space where real estate agents and brokers can network, learn about new real estate technology and regulations,...
View ArticleAlmost half of homeowners with a mortgage could be underwater by 2011, says...
This CNN article is not good news for those of us in the real estate industry. In it Karen Weaver from Deutsche Bank estimates that home prices in the US will fall another 14% causing 48% of homeowners...
View ArticleNew Real Estate Listing Network Challenges MLS
The launch of a new real estate listing network aimed at real estate franchises challenges the supremacy of the real estate industry’s traditional multiple listing services (MLS) and is generating a...
View ArticleReal Estate ‘Dictionary’ Aimed at Standardizing Descriptions
Real estate websites and classified ads can leave first-time home buyers wishing they had a Secret Agent decoder ring so they could decipher the abbreviations and description shortcuts used by real...
View ArticleInternet Radio Show Tunes In to Real Estate Trends
If you want to wake up your real estate business, tune in to Agent Caffeine on Blog Talk Radio at 9 p.m. EST every Thursday. The brainchild of Realtor Kelly Mitchell, who serves as the show's host and...
View ArticleTech Tools, Social Networks Providing Traction for 100% Real Estate Commission
The 100% real estate commission isn’t exactly a new idea. In 2009, Trulia blogger Joseph Ferrara, posed the question, Is 100% agent commission the future of real estate? It was Ferrara’s view that...
View ArticleHome Price Rebound Predicted for 2013
Economists are predicting a rebound in home prices next year that many feel signals the end of the real estate industry's woes. Residential housing prices have been inching upward in many markets this...
View ArticleAlmost half of homeowners with a mortgage could be underwater by 2011, says...
This CNN article is not good news for those of us in the real estate industry. In it Karen Weaver from Deutsche Bank estimates that home prices in the US will fall another 14% causing 48% of homeowners...
View ArticleNew Real Estate Listing Network Challenges MLS
The launch of a new real estate listing network aimed at real estate franchises challenges the supremacy of the real estate industry’s traditional multiple listing services (MLS) and is generating a...
View ArticleReal Estate ‘Dictionary’ Aimed at Standardizing Descriptions
Real estate websites and classified ads can leave first-time home buyers wishing they had a Secret Agent decoder ring so they could decipher the abbreviations and description shortcuts used by real...
View ArticleInternet Radio Show Tunes In to Real Estate Trends
If you want to wake up your real estate business, tune in to Agent Caffeine on Blog Talk Radio at 9 p.m. EST every Thursday. The brainchild of Realtor Kelly Mitchell, who serves as the show's host and...
View ArticleTech Tools, Social Networks Providing Traction for 100% Real Estate Commission
The 100% real estate commission isn’t exactly a new idea. In 2009, Trulia blogger Joseph Ferrara, posed the question, Is 100% agent commission the future of real estate? It was Ferrara’s view that...
View ArticleHome Price Rebound Predicted for 2013
Economists are predicting a rebound in home prices next year that many feel signals the end of the real estate industry's woes. Residential housing prices have been inching upward in many markets this...
View Article5 of the Nation’s Top Ten Places to Sell a House are in California
The Movoto Real Estate Blog has analyzed the nation’s 100 largest cities in terms of population against a long list of criteria to determine the Top 10 cities in the nation for home sellers. When all...
View ArticleShort Sale Sellers Back in the Real Estate Market
During the worst of the real estate crisis in 2009, 45% of all homes sold nationally were foreclosures or short sales. But in the last quarter, sales of bank-owned properties reached their lowest level...
View ArticleHas NAR Betrayed Agents With AgentMatch?
AgentMatch, the new offering from realtor.com, has agents in a tailspin thanks to realtor.com’s close ties to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). In a beta testing phase now, and only available...
View ArticleThe Zillow-Trulia Merger & Your Real Estate Business
Last week, Zillow revealed publicly its intent to buy Trulia for $3.5 billion. Obviously this news (and the rumors we’ve been hearing for some time) are hot topics of conversation in the real estate...
View ArticleWarning: Negative Real Estate Game Changers Part Two
Continued from Tuesday. Brokers, beware! CFPB/RESPA regulations resulting from the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act of 2010 could turn out to be costly for real...
View ArticleThe Face of the New Real Estate Investor
In a climate where real estate trends appear to show millennials as procrastinators in the home investment arena, it may surprise many real estate professionals to get a gander at one of today’s real...
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