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By Joy Bender I’ve found Instagram marketing for real estate to be an important part of my marketing strategy. This past June, I organized my first San Diego luxury real estate Instagram Influencer event to launch a new $7.75 million listing. This is the second feature of a two-part blog series on Instagram marketing for [...]
The National Association of Realtors has been a vocal supporter of comprehensive reforms to the National Flood-Insurance Program. Regarding your editorial “Hurricane Scalise” (July 21): The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) has been renewed 41 times since 1998, with six short-term extensions coming in the past year. You overlook that the National Association of Realtors [...]
By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR(R) Magazine Some home designers want to make a bigger statement with the ceiling, and they’re turning to wallpaper to do it. Wallpaper is once again growing in popularity for walls, and some designers are now experimenting with it to dress up the ceiling too. Some designers are using it to [...]
By Erica Christoffer Your YPN members are in the throes of a frenzied seller’s market. They’ve likely been hard-pressed to satisfy anxious buyers seeking suitable properties. They’re probably juggling multiple offer listing and clients thirsting for immediate responses. How do you add value to their real estate toolkit through your YPN group activities and events? [...]
Chinese buyers remained as the top foreign buyer of U.S. residential property, according to NAR’s recently released 2018 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate. [1],[2] Chinese buyers accounted for 15 percent of foreign buyer purchases during the period April 2017-March 2018, which is about the same as the share in the past [...]
The Universe, a skyscraper with a waterfall, a company-wide meat ban, what parking costs American cities and an unusual retirement community. How would you respond to your employer enacting a policy like this? We wouldn’t mind living out our days in a village like this. First time we’ve seen a skyscraper with its own waterfall. [...]
The National Association of REALTORS® released the 2018 Profile of International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate, which profiles top five countries of origin for foreign home buyers and how these buyers are utilizing the services of REALTORS®. Check out this infographic highlighting some of the report’s findings? View the whole release here. Powered by [...]
Foreign buyers purchased $121.0 billion of existing homes from April 2017—March 2018, a 21 percent decline from the past period’s level, according to NAR’s recently released 2018 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate.[1],[2] Foreign buyers accounted for eight percent of the $1.6 trillion existing home sales during the same period, a decrease [...]
NAR released a summary of existing-home sales data showing that housing market activity this June fell for the third straight month down 0.6 percent from last month, and dropped 2.2 percent from last year. June’s existing-home sales reached 5.38 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. The national median existing-home price for all housing types was $276,900 [...]
National Association of Realtors® President Elizabeth Mendenhall released the following statement after today’s U.S. House vote on legislation extending flood insurance funding: “Flooding is the most common and costly natural disaster in the United States. Without an extension of authority, the National Flood Insurance Program cannot write or renew flood insurance in 22,000 communities nationwide. The bill passed by [...]