This week marked the deadline for comments on the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s proposed fixes for the ‘Know Before You Owe Rule,’ and National Association of Realtors® President Tom Salomone weighed in to highlight Realtors®’ concerns. In a letter to CFPB Director Richard Cordray, Salomone said that Realtors® are focused on third-party access to the closing… Continue Reading NAR Weighs In On ‘Know Before You Owe’ Fixes
Real simple, but real cool: leave a sticky note on a web site and it will be there when you return. It’s super easy to remove them too. If you’re the kind of person who has way too many browser tabs open, this might help you remember what’s important on all those pages. From the… Continue Reading A New Sticky Note Chrome Extension, A New Smart Home Checklist, and More in Five for Wednesday
According to Science Journal, the internet took over multichannel global communications almost instantaneously, transmitting one percent of information in 1993, 51 percent by 2000, and 97 percent by 2007.[1] The internet’s prominence in the real estate industry has a similar progression. The National Association of REALTORS® has tracked home buyers and sellers’ use of the… Continue Reading Internet & Real Estate Agents: Some Things Change, Others Remain the Same
WASHINGTON (October 18, 2016) – When the first Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers was introduced 35 years ago by the National Association of Realtors®, mortgage rates were over four times higher than they are today and first-time buyers made up a much larger share of overall sales (44 percent). Over time, homebuyer tastes and… Continue Reading Five Notable Nuggets from NAR’s Home Buyer and Sellers Survey’s 35-Year History
Brandon Doyle By Brandon Doyle When it comes to pioneering a successful real estate business, the power of the open house is not to be underestimated. On one front, staging an open house appeases the seller and stirs up potential buyers. Beyond that, an open house is also a rare marketing opportunity where you and… Continue Reading 3 Surefire Ways to Make Your Open House Stand Out
This is the first post of a two-part series of papers on blockchains. Blockchains got a bad rap due to digital currency (Bitcoin), but can actually be quite useful in the real estate industry. They are simply another way to manage data. The first paper describes the technical difference between blockchains and traditional data management… Continue Reading Blockchains in Real Estate – Part 1
A couple of weeks ago, we asked our readers for their scariest experiences in the field, and the horrifying stories poured in. We ran a few of the most frightening, but we can’t get enough. Halloween is one of our favorite holidays, and to stay in the “spirit” as long as we can, we’ve decided… Continue Reading True Tales of Terror in Real Estate Part 2: The House Cleansed Itself of Its Evil Mojo
By Saghar Setareh, CoContest guest contributor How can you know the best style for staging a property? After all, you’ll need to satisfy home buyers’ various style tastes as well as make sure you’re showing the property in its best light. Thanks to the power of the Internet, we wanted to see just how much… Continue Reading View the Same Property Staged 3 Different Ways
Literature, technology, security, builds, recreations, clowns, libraries, and procrastination. How many roads must a man walk down, before you call him a Nobel Laureate? You’re never going to own Samsung Galaxy Note 7 now. Why do bad things happen to ostensibly good phones? Check out the packaging precautions for the safe return of these malfunctioning… Continue Reading What We’re Reading: October 10-14
WASHINGTON (October 13, 2016) — The National Association of Realtors®, through the REALTOR Benefits® Program, has partnered with Intuit, the global leader in financial management software products, to offer exclusive savings on Intuit's signature products QuickBooks® Self-Employed and TurboTax®. "The addition of Intuit to the REALTOR Benefits® Program allows NAR to provide our members with access… Continue Reading New REALTOR® Benefits Partner Allows Members to Save on Financial Management Software