Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
Last week was a pretty strong week for all the housing numbers. New supply and sales numbers keep climbing — both weekly and over last year. Home prices had a slight increase this week across the board. What does this means for home prices this spring? As the data comes in each week this year, I’ve been more optimistic about home sales volume growth than for home-price growth.
Keeping Current Matters
MARCH 25, 2024
Before making the decision to buy a home, it's important to plan for all the costs you’ll be responsible for.
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Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
On the heels of the $418 million settlement recently announced by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), mortgage trade group Community Home Lenders of America (CHLA) has called on the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) to expedite regulatory change that would allow veterans and active-duty service members to fund buyer’s broker commissions when purchasing a home with a VA mortgage.
Real Estate News
MARCH 25, 2024
The class action case, brought by a former Keller Williams agent, argues that the brokerage doesn’t have the right to retroactively alter the program.
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Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
California-based multichannel mortgage lender HighTechLending appointed reverse mortgage industry veteran Brian Boccia to serve as a senior account executive in its third-party origination (TPO) channel. He joins the company after prior experience at companies like Mutual of Omaha Mortgage and Reverse Mortgage Funding (RMF). Aiming to keep in mind the financial difficulties that seniors may be facing, Boccia expressed a commitment to the reverse mortgage space and a need to understand senior pai
Real Estate News
MARCH 25, 2024
Nothing is changing yet, and when change does come, it won’t eliminate buyer agents or cooperative compensation. ‘‘No one can force you to work for free.
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Real Estate News
MARCH 25, 2024
Tax time can be confusing for agents, but tracking mileage, making quarterly payments and hiring an accountant can pay off. A veteran CPA explains.
Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
Illinois-based State Farm General Insurance will not renew 30,000 residential property insurance policies in California , as well as 42,000 commercial apartment policies in the state, the company announced last week. The company is withdrawing completely from offering commercial apartment policies — which impact multifamily property owners, not renters insurance policies — in California.
Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
Premier Sotheby’s International Realty President and CEO Budge Huskey corrects the record on commissions — and the potential impact of the NAR settlement on buyers, sellers and agents.
Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
During a virtual open house hosted by Keller Williams to answer agent and broker questions about the settlements in the commission lawsuits , the overwhelming message was for real estate professionals to focus on what they can control. “ Don’t panic. Remain calm, trust that you are in the right place and go sell real estate,” Wendi Harrelson, the president of Keller Williams Realty International -owned regions, said during the presentation on Monday.
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Real Estate News
MARCH 25, 2024
The inventory of new homes remains elevated, helping offset the low levels of available existing homes.
Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
Today’s brokerage firms must rely on core services to make up for the low margins of the residential real estate practice. As part of the brokerage rankings, RealTrends collects the number of affiliated service transactions a firm does. These numbers, part of RealTrends Verified , are submitted by the firm but not subject to our verification system.
Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
Robby Braun, partner at Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, addresses "misconceptions" about the NAR deal's impact and says Realtors who try to ignore the changes "will get left behind.
Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
New-home sales receded slightly in February but continued to track above last year’s pace, reaching a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 662,000 last month, according to data published Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development ( HUD ). While this figure represents a 0.3% decrease from the revised January rate of 664,000 sales, it also marks a 5.9% rise from the February 2023 pace of 625,000 units sold.
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Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
Coldwell Banker's recent survey reveals key insights into homebuyer and seller attitudes, offering guidance for real estate professionals.
Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
Fueled by a surge in mortgage rates , owning a home has become increasingly expensive. According to a Freddie Ma c housing and mortgage market report released Monday, while mortgage payments remain the primary pressure point for homeowners, insurance costs are emerging as a growing burden. Homeowners insurance costs, though still much smaller than mortgage principal and interest payments, are on the rise.
Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
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Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
It may be counterintuitive, but loan officer Scott Betley, a 32-year-old TikTok sensation , says he isn’t worried about a potential U.S. ban of the short-form video app. Betley, who has more than a decade of experience helping first-time and move-up buyers, joined NFM Lending as a loan officer in 2021. The following year, the Maryland-based lender created an Influencer Division, appointing Betley as vice president and co-creator.
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Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
The DOJ opened its investigation into the property management software firm as well as several multifamily building operators who authorities believe collaborated in a "price-fixing combination.
Housing Wire
MARCH 25, 2024
The Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) announced the winners of the 2023 Best in Business Awards , honoring excellence in business journalism from 2023. HousingWire journalist Will Robinson won the Data Journalism category for his data reporting series on the seismic changes in the real estate industry. The series was published on HousingWire.com and the DataDigest newsletter, which was launched in 2023 in partnership with CoreLogic.
Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
New York City's worst landlord, Daniel Ohebshalom, was punched on Friday during an inmate brawl at Rikers. Ohebshalom was sentenced for failing to fix more than 700 housing violations.
RIS Media
MARCH 25, 2024
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Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
A few high-profile squatting cases have gone viral in recent days, but no available data actually indicates the practice of unlawfully occupying property has become more frequent.
Bigger Pockets
MARCH 25, 2024
It’s common to have questions about your property taxes, but one is more important than all the others combined: Why did my property taxes increase. There’s no individual answer to this question, as it can depend on a variety of factors. Here are 19 frequently asked questions (FAQs) to help you understand property taxes as a whole, and with that, determine why your taxes have increased.
Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
Sales of newly built homes slipped a modest 0.3 percent between January and February to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 662,000, according to data released Monday by the U.S. Census Bureau.
Brownstoner
MARCH 25, 2024
Gowanus, an industrial and low-lying neighborhood, has been undergoing a sudden and sweeping transformation over the past year and a half. Swathes of low slung 19th and early 20th century brick industrial buildings have been demolished. In their place, ubiquitous on many blocks, are active construction sites ringed by green… Read More > The post Extensive Construction in Gowanus Forecasts a Very Different Neighborhood Ahead appeared first on Brownstoner.
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Inman
MARCH 25, 2024
Agent Aaron Hendon shares insights about how mindfulness and kindness can have significant impacts on your business and personal health.
RIS Media
MARCH 25, 2024
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MARCH 25, 2024
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Bigger Pockets
MARCH 25, 2024
Are empty city office buildings going the same way as zombie shopping malls, or can they be revitalized to become residential apartments and condos?
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