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Home Buying, bath toys, FHA, privacy, ADUs, air quality, valuation, and models. Location is everything, but are you considering everything you should about a property when home buying? Rubber ducky, you’re the one…that’s causing infections. Pete G/flickr/2017 Facebook ad settings are called into question, even as we commemorate the 50th Anniversary of the Fair Housing… Continue Reading What We’re Reading: March 26-30

Lee Davenport By Lee Davenport Have you ever heard the saying, “If it’s not broke, don’t fix it”?  Yet, have you noticed that you don’t know what you don’t know? Perhaps a method or strategy (or lack there of) is broken, yet because we don’t know it, we leave things as they are. Using the… Continue Reading Quiz: Is Your Follow-Up Broken?

At the national level, housing affordability is up from last month but down from a year ago. Mortgage rates dipped to 4.27 percent this January, down 2.5 percent compared to 4.38 percent a year ago. Housing affordability declined from a year ago in January moving the index down 1.1 percent from 164.8 to 163.0. The… Continue Reading January 2018 Housing Affordability Index

No matter how passive it may seem, reading is an activity. It can be an acknowledgement, a political act, an act of remembrance—and at its best, it’s often all three wrapped into one. April 11, 2018 will mark 50 years since President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Fair Housing Act into law. So much has… Continue Reading Books in Brief: Lighting the Path to Housing Equality

NAR released a summary of existing-home sales data showing that housing market activity this February bounced back 3.0 percent from last month and rose 1.1 percent from last year. February’s Existing-Home sales reached 5.54 million seasonally adjusted annual rate. The national median existing-home price for all housing types was $241,700 in January, up 5.9 percent… Continue Reading February 2018 Existing-Home Sales

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When the Trump administration released its $1.5 trillion infrastructure plan last month, it set in motion a multi-year process that could eventually lead to considerable investment in communities. Of course, Congress must pass legislation to make much of it happen. Although there are some parts that the administration can do on its own, a lot… Continue Reading Infrastructure Improvement Means Real Estate Activity

Imposing a 25 percent tariff on imports of steel  and a 10 percent tariff on imports of aluminum, even if excludes those imports from Canada and Mexico, will raise the price of newly constructed home. The United States imported $47.83 billion of steel and aluminum commodities in 2017 on product types for which tariffs will… Continue Reading Steel and Aluminum Tariffs Expected to Have Most Impact on Construction and Motor Vehicles

The REALTORS® Confidence Index (RCI) survey[1] gathers monthly information from REALTORS® about local real estate market conditions, characteristics of buyers and sellers, and issues affecting homeownership and real estate transactions.[2] This report presents key results about market transactions from February 2018. View and download the full report here. Market Conditions and Expectations The REALTORS® Buyer… Continue Reading REALTORS® Confidence Index Survey: February 2018 Highlights

Steve Spano, president and chief operating officer of the Center for Internet Security, recently visited NAR’s Washington offices to discuss techniques real estate professionals can employ to stay safe online. Listen to his comments below. Powered by WPeMatico