Privately owned housing starts increased 18.6 percent from December 2018 to January 2019 but was still 7.8 percent lower than January 2018, according to the most recent statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Housing starts were reported at a seasonally adjusted rate of 1,230,000, of which 926,000 were single family homes.
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These days, sellers can find just about anything they want about buyers online, depending on how deep into that rabbit hole they want to go. It’s our job as agents to prepare our buyer clients for that situation. Here are tips that’ll help your buyers put their best face forward.
Buyers can be tricky, and getting them to make a commitment to you can be even trickier. We all know the key to a lasting real estate career is buyer loyalty, but are you effectively achieving this? Here are three things you should be doing to earn their loyalty from the get-go.
Watch Byron Lazine and Nicole White give a real estate agent’s perspective on industry-related topics. This week, they’ll take a look at the Compass acquisition of popular real estate customer relationship management platform Contactually.
The perceived headwinds in the housing market aren’t the rising interest rates or supply and demand — they are our politicians. Everything starts with perception, and politicians have encouraged the fear that has crept into our mindset. Here’s what Washington has done to our industry and why we will survive it.
Hear from the latest platforms that are embracing deep data pools and demographic trends, including Localize.city’s Steven Kalifowitz, Cherre’s L.D. Salmanson, HouseCanary’s Josh Seiff and Triplemint’s David Walker.
Fathom Realty, the cloud-based, flat-fee commission brokerage announced plans on Tuesday that it intends to file a draft registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission to take the company public. The company expects the documents to be filed sometime in the second quarter.
Where’s the disconnect, and what does it take to bridge that gap? Listen in as moderator Denee Evans, CMLS, and Sam DeBord, Coldwell Banker Danforth, explain the disconnect between brokers and the MLS.
Real estate brokerages anticipate big challenges to come from evolving technology and “nontraditional market participants,” according to a new NAR survey.
Florida real estate agent Laura Calhoun was freshening up a property when an emergency forced her to put her life-saving skills to use.