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At the national level, housing affordability is down from last month and down from a year ago. Mortgage rates increased to 4.15 percent this December, up dramatically from last month’s 3.82 percent, but roughly unchanged compared to 4.14 a year ago. Housing affordability declined from a year ago in December moving the index down 1.4 [...]

Meteors, skydiving, perks, libraries, safety, Open Access, dictionaries, and productivity. You don’t see this every day! Pretty sure this would fulfill our dream of flying, though we doubt we’d be as graceful. According to Glassdoor, these are the 20 best work perks out there. Librarian goals: visit this magical special library! Has an outstanding overdue [...]

Kyle Hiscock By Kyle Hiscock When people ask me what I do for a living, the easiest response is to say I’m a real estate agent. If I really wanted to get into great detail, the answer would be something along the lines of, “I’m a digital marketing company that happens to help buyers and [...]

You may have heard that TV manufacturer Vizio has been fined $2.2M for tracking what users were watching and then offering that data to advertisers. No other TV companies have been found to be doing the same, but just in case, here’s what you should do to make sure your viewing habits aren’t being tracked. [...]

This blog post was written by Managing Director of Housing Research, Danielle Hale, and Data Analyst, Hua Zhong. Home listings still go up most often on Thursdays and Fridays. Here is the data: As we start the New Year, this is a good time to take a look and recap the year behind us to [...]

At the International Builders’ Show in Orlando, Fla. last month, I had the chance to sit down with two authors who know a ton about generating customer loyalty. One was Jason Forrest, a sales trainer and coach whom I’ve known as a regular contributor to REALTOR® Magazine over the years. He introduced me to Paul [...]

REALTORS®remain broadly optimistic about housing market conditions over the next six months, according to the December 2016 REALTORS® Confidence Index Survey Report, a monthly survey of REALTORS® about their sales activity and local market conditions.[1] The REALTORS® Confidence Index—Six-Month Outlook indices for all properties have been trending upward since 2012, and on an annual basis, 2016 [...]