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Robots are Starting to Do Showings

2018-01-26T16:55:07-05:00January 26th, 2018|NAR|

A company called Zenplace in San Francisco is using robots to help its agents conduct showings. When people arrive at the unit, they’re greeted by what amounts to an iPad on a mobile stand that leads them around, but it’s personalized; it’s the agent’s image and voice that people see and hear. Other companies are coming [...]

What We’re Reading: January 22-26

2018-01-26T10:17:03-05:00January 26th, 2018|NAR|

Micro-Progress, shopping, design, niches, Tide Pods, materials, food, and networking. 1. Find article to share. 2. Copy link. 3. Write line about article. 4. Create hyperlink. 5. Progress achieved! Brick and mortar with a twist from the company that moved so much shopping online. Speaking of twists, these buildings and bridges wind and wander. There’s [...]

Instant Reaction: 2017 Q4 GDP

2018-01-26T09:05:54-05:00January 26th, 2018|NAR|

The following is NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun’s reaction to this morning’s U.S. Commerce Department release on Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in the fourth quarter: “The economy expanded at a respectable rate of 2.3% in 2017. That’s a good comeback considering a very weak start of only 1.2% growth in the first quarter. The housing market [...]

Tackling Big Issues in the New Year

2018-01-25T17:59:01-05:00January 25th, 2018|NAR|

Matt Clements By Matt Clements I love January. It’s the time when everything seems possible and the new year opens up new opportunity. I’m especially excited because my baby boy turned 1-year-old this week! He’s the light of anyone’s day, and the poop diapers mean nothing when I see that wonderful smile. Truly, I “replaced [...]

Net Neutrality Explained With Burgers; Clean Energy Through Beer; More in Five for Wednesday

2018-01-24T14:50:58-05:00January 24th, 2018|NAR|

If you’ve tried to explain net neutrality rules to someone and wound up being a little too abstract, here’s how to explain it with hamburgers. Budweiser has switched all of its U.S.-based brewing to 100% renewable energy. Is this equivalent to taking 10,000 cars off the road? 20,000? 30,000? Find out just how many. Apple’s [...]

REALTORS® Confidence Index Survey: December 2017 Highlights

2018-01-24T12:21:50-05:00January 24th, 2018|NAR|

The REALTORS® Confidence Index (RCI) survey gathers monthly information from REALTORS® about local real estate market conditions, characteristics of buyers and sellers, and issues affecting homeownership and real estate transactions.[1] This report presents key results about market transactions from December 2017. View and download the full report here. [2] Market Conditions and Expectations The REALTORS® [...]

Do Personality Assessments Work? Sometimes.

2018-01-22T16:30:36-05:00January 22nd, 2018|NAR|

@maialisa, 2016. pixabay.com I’ve always been skeptical of personality assessments. After taking the DISC twice—once getting a D/C and more recently getting a high, nearly even I/D—I found that both results matched my personality on some levels and conflicted on others. This is where my skepticism come in. There’s truth in assessments to varying degrees. [...]

Residential and Commercial Sales Bolstered Land Market in 2017

2018-01-22T12:27:08-05:00January 22nd, 2018|NAR|

The dollar volume of U.S. land sales rose at a stronger pace of 4% percent in the months of October 2016‒September 2017 compared to levels in the prior 12-month period[1], according to respondents in the 2017 Land Market Survey (Press Release), a joint undertaking of the REALTORS® Land Institute and the National Association of REALTORS®. [...]

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