According to the NAR 2017 Member Profile, 18 percent of Realtors® earn their business from real estate referrals by way of satisfied past clients and customers, and 13 percent from repeat clients. Not other agents. Not family members or friends. Not people who charge…
Step aside, Millennials. There is a new generation in town. Generation Z homebuyers are poised to enter the real estate market. Generation Z, also known as the “Net” or “Digital” generation, comprises those born from about 1996 to 2010. The oldest among them are…
Health insurance coverage has been a hot topic in the news for the past several months. Getting creative and finding alternatives for health insurance for real estate agents has meant that more agents are covered today than in the past. Still, solutions might come…
The U.S. real estate market is experiencing a surge in both resident and nonresident foreign investors. International buyers from China, Canada, India, and more are scooping up residential, commercial, and industrial properties. This is good for business for real estate agents across the nation.…
Nearly 15 years ago, homeowners were anxious to refinance their homes, thinking the interest rates had hit historic lows. “Thirty-year fixed rates were at 5.3 percent then, which was a rock-bottom point,” said Keith Gumbinger, vice president of HSH.com mortgage data firm. “We became…
You can’t go too far these days without seeing something that’s “smart” and seemingly integral to our lives, from our phones and TVs to our cars, watches, and on a much larger scale: our homes. Now smart homes are being retrofitted with technology that…
Affordable housing crisis used to conjure up images of impoverished, low-income families crowded into public slums or “projects.” But in many large cities across the United States and the world, the affordable housing crisis has inched up to envelop the middle class. Limited housing…
When potential homebuyers come to you for help in finding a home, you’ll want to be certain that they’re qualified to make the purchase before you start working with them. Getting preapproved for a home mortgage is another matter: That means that a lender…
New conversations are starting about the occasionally fractious relationship between appraisers and selling agents. The complaint that some real estate agents are guilty of appraiser blacklisting (refusing to allow certain appraisers to appraise their listings) isn’t a new one. But it seems to have…
If you are a member of the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR), you will have free access to transaction management software, zipLogix, starting in January 2016. NAR’s board of directors just approved a proposal that will offer more than 1 million NAR members access…
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