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Real estate industry must tame syndication beast
Letter to the Editor. I know that Brian Rayl and many others have all of the best intentions on the syndicated listing discussion. I respect their opinions but wholeheartedly disagree. My perspective comes from being in the business for 25 ye...
Being The Best At What You Do Is No Longer Enough
Being the best at what you do, having the best idea and working the hardest in the past were the secret sauces, today they are no longer enough.
Celebrity real estate that sold in 2011
Star-studded lineup includes homes of Ashton Kutcher, Donald Trump. By many accounts, 2011 was a rough year for real estate – unless you happened to be a celebrity. For the rich and famous stars of screens large and small, 2011 was just another...
Top 10 US metro areas with steepest home-price cuts in 2011
Michigan and the Southeast markets dominate the list. Metro areas in Michigan and the Southeast experienced the most substantial cuts in for-sale home prices listed on Zillow.com in 2011 compared to 2010. Flint, Mich., and Detroit topped the lis...
9 markets with rising real estate values
Zillow: metros with climbing values stretch from Fort Myers, Fla., to Honolulu. Metro areas off the beaten path, like Oklahoma's Tulsa and Oklahoma City, bucked national trends to win a place on a top list of markets with the greatest year-over-...
Report: Freddie Mac bets against homeowner refinancings
NPR and ProPublica investigation shines light on investment practices. In 2010 and 2011, mortgage giant Freddie Mac invested billions of dollars on bets that homeowners with high-interest mortgages would not be able to refinance at today's lower...
Tips from a top real estate photographer | Inman News
A quick flip through any glossy magazine will reaffirm the reliance that selling has on good pictures. Selling houses is no different than selling products. In fact, homeowners and Realtors are perhaps even more depende...
How to turn leads into real estate clients
Deliver an 'amazing' experience online. NEW YORK -- Real estate professionals take note: The key to converting online leads into clients is to make sure consumers have an "amazing" experience start to finish, beginning with your website, accord...
Mortgage rates sag to new lows
Demand for purchase loans down 17.9% from a year ago. Mortgage rates continued to plumb new depths this week, but demand for purchase loans remains down from a year ago, lender surveys show.All types of mortgages tracked by Freddie Mac hit new l...
How to turn leads into real estate clients
Deliver an 'amazing' experience online. NEW YORK -- Real estate professionals take note: The key to converting online leads into clients is to make sure consumers have an "amazing" experience start to finish, beginning with your website, accord...
Brokers grappling with multiple issues
New ways to think about team-building, cloud computing and social media. NEW YORK -- Real estate industry leaders discussed critical issues for brokers including team-building, how to price new listings, and cloud computing during the Broker Sum...
9 markets with rising real estate values
Zillow: metros with climbing values stretch from Fort Myers, Fla., to Honolulu. Metro areas off the beaten path, like Oklahoma's Tulsa and Oklahoma City, bucked national trends to win a place on a top list of markets with the greatest year-over-...
Big Apple joins top 10 priciest global markets
From The Real Deal. Editor's note: This article is reposted with permission by The Real Deal. Click here to view the original article. By CANDACE TAYLOR
A house that's for the dogs
Pooch palaces that make four-legged friends right at home. Ever thought of designing a living room for your Gucci-pampered puppy? How about a second-level perch or shin-level views for the plus-one member of the family?"What I don't understand i...
Real estate groups mixed reactions to Cordray appointment
MBA wary of Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's powers over mortgage firms. Real estate groups had mixed reactions to President Obama's controversial appointment Wednesday of Richard Cordray as the first director of the U.S. Consumer Financi...
VIDEO: Interview with Fannie Mae chief economist Doug Duncan
Expect higher interest rates in 2012. The housing market is in a holding pattern, said Doug Duncan, vice president and chief economist at Fannie Mae, in an interview with Inman News at last year's San Francisco Real Estate Connect. "There's n...
10 home winterization musts
Have you checked your furnace filter, insulation lately?. It's been a mild winter throughout most of the country so far. That means we still have time to run through a foul-weather checklist. Here are 10 "must do's" to have a warm, cozy and sa...
Top 10 tech wish list for real estate agents in 2012
Perspective: Embrace open source, hands-free, QR and VR technologies. My top 10 tech wish list for real estate agents in 2012: 1. MLS data becomes common The National Association of Realtors finally gets their act together to form a new comm
Soaring student loan debt to boost rentals | Inman News
Perspective: Real estate's December report card. Student loan debt now totals $865 billion, which is greater than all credit card debt outstanding, as well as all other types of household debt except for mortgages.College graduates have debt ave...
Calculate paybacks before buying furnace
First, consider home's energy efficiency. Cold weather's upon us again, and you may be looking at changing or upgrading your old heating system to better deal with winter's chill. But what type of furnace should you get? There's actually quite...
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