Housing Wire

MAY 29, 2024

Northwest MLS , the largest multiple listing service in the Pacific Northwest, will not take part in the $418 million agreement reached by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) in the Sitzer/Burnett case. In fact, NWMLS said that its own rules on buyer agent compensation are fairer and more transparent than the terms NAR agreed to in March. It also criticized NAR for pushing “consumers and brokers to make secret deals off MLS, inviting deceptive practices, discrimination and unfair housi

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Real Estate News

MAY 30, 2024

Watch the conversation with marketing pro Brian Boero as he imagines how NAR and the industry could — and should — be communicating with agents and consumers.

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Keeping Current Matters

MAY 30, 2024

Buyers face challenges in any market – and today’s is no different.

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Inman

MAY 30, 2024

In response to NAR's proposed settlement, the nation's second largest MLS will add data fields on June 11 allowing sellers to signal they're willing to offer buyer concessions when they list a home.

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Seattle Times Real Estate

MAY 30, 2024

Alaska plans to spend $100 million renovating the property so pilots, flight attendants and other employees can train together.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Coldwell Banker Realty , a New England-based residential real estate brokerage , welcomed The DelRose McShane Team , the brokerage announced on Wednesday. Led by Mike DelRose Sr., Mike DelRose Jr. and Bobby McShane, The DelRose McShane Team boasts eight agents. They formerly operated the RE/MAX Revolution franchise in Watertown, Massachusetts, one of New England’s first RE/MAX franchises.

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Keeping Current Matters

MAY 27, 2024

For over 80 years, Veterans Affairs (VA) home loans have helped millions of veterans buy their own homes.

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Inman

MAY 30, 2024

Northwest MLS says banning compensation in the MLS restricts consumer choice and transparency. Plaintiffs' attorney Michael Ketchmark says "the fox is guarding the chicken house.

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RIS Media

MAY 30, 2024

While finding buyers and sellers who are ready to get off the sideline is the ultimate goal for real estate professionals who are looking to keep their pipeline full, there’s no shortage of strategies that can be employed to generate new revenue and grow your business as the busy summer selling season heats up. Become… The post Generating New Revenue: Strategies for Growing Your Business appeared first on RISMedia.

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Housing Wire

MAY 25, 2024

The mortgage rate lockdown premise holds that very few people will list their homes when mortgage rates are this high, thus suppressing inventory. But 2024 has proven that theory wrong. 2024 has had healthy inventory growth despite mortgage rates above 7%. Also, for the third time this year, I have hit my target of weekly inventory growth between 11,000 -17,000, thus leading to more inventory than we saw in 2023.

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Real Estate News

MAY 28, 2024

The organization is the first non-NAR MLS to announce its intentions, and it says keeping the compensation field provides more transparency for consumers.

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Keeping Current Matters

MAY 29, 2024

You’re ready to sell your house. But what do you need most from your real estate agent?

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Inman

MAY 29, 2024

The change allows listings in the California Regional Multiple Listing Service to display whether a homeseller is willing to offer concessions in price — including to cover broker fees.

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RIS Media

MAY 30, 2024

Beyond the policy changes required by the NAR settlement, Bright MLS has announced a set of system changes to ease subscriber use to help them navigate through the upcoming new normal. Similar to CRMLS’ newly announced system field changes referring to Concessions in Price, Bright has announced that they will be including seller concessions in… The post Bright MLS Unveils System Changes for the Post-NAR Settlement Industry appeared first on RISMedia.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

Editor in Chief Sarah Wheeler talks with Brad Rice, founder and CEO of Amerifund Home Loans and Homepie , about how his company is streamlining the process of selling for homeowners who want to sell their home themselves. Ironically, the technology he’s developed can be a benefit to real estate agents as well. SW: Why did you want to develop this platform?

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Real Estate News

MAY 24, 2024

David Mele, the longtime leader of CoStar’s home search site, confirmed to Real Estate News that he has left his position as president of Homes.com.

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MAY 28, 2024

Climate change is impacting where people buy homes.

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Inman

MAY 30, 2024

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HomeLight

MAY 30, 2024

Whether you’re a homeowner or a potential homebuyer, the process of calculating the tax value of a property may seem obscure. Real estate taxes can feel additionally confusing when you see your home’s assessed value on a tax bill, and it doesn’t match your home’s current market value. However, in most states, this process is based on a common equation.

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Housing Wire

MAY 28, 2024

Home prices in the United States continued their upward trajectory in March, with the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price Index recording a 6.5% annual gain, matching February’s growth, according to the latest report. Meanwhile, the U.S. National Index posted a month-over-month increase of 0.3%, while the 20-City and the 10-City Composite both reported month-over-month increases of 0.3% and 0.5%, after seasonal adjustment.

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Real Estate News

MAY 24, 2024

CEO John Berkowitz says the home search company offers agents and consumers “a better chance of succeeding” than its deep-pocketed competitors.

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RIS Media

MAY 29, 2024

California Regional MLS (CRMLS), the country’s largest MLS—home to over 110,000 members—is launching a new set of MLS system fields referring to Concessions in Price (CiP) today. The fields promise to enhance communication between listing and buyer agents, as well as homebuyers, by providing “up-front” information surrounding concessions, according to a release from CRMLS.

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Speaker: Trey Willard, Realtor/Team Leader at Keller Williams Realty, Inc.

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Inman

MAY 28, 2024

These increasingly uncertain attitudes among agents in March were a departure from brokers, who were more likely to tell Intel that they still view the National Association of Realtors positively.

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Bigger Pockets

MAY 28, 2024

Rehabbing a home isn’t the same as preparing a home for rental, though. Not all homes require rehabbing, but all rental properties must be prepared for prospective renters.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

The U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) announced on Wednesday that it has called on mortgage servicers to extend the moratorium on foreclosures for VA-guaranteed loans through Dec. 31, 2024, while these companies implement a new program to help struggling veterans. The current moratorium, announced in November, was set to end on Friday. It was implemented amid complaints of veterans’ struggles because there was no program available to succeed a partial claim option offered during th

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Real Estate News

MAY 28, 2024

Recruiter Brent Gove has also been dismissed from the lawsuit involving allegations of sexual assault, while Michael Bjorkman’s motion to dismiss was denied.

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RIS Media

MAY 28, 2024

The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index, covering all nine U.S. census divisions, reported a 6.5% annual gain for March, the same increase as the previous month. The 10-City Composite saw an increase of 8.2%, up from an 8.1% increase in the previous month. The 20-City Composite posted a slight year-over-year increase… The post Case-Shiller: Home Prices Way Up in March Due to Scarcity appeared first on RISMedia.

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Inman

MAY 24, 2024

The red brick Georgian mansion, known by children all over the world as Kevin McCallister's home, is back on the market after 12 years and comes with a large Kevin Lego figure for the home theater.

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BAM Media

MAY 30, 2024

BAM Key Details: Northwest MLS (NWMLS) will not opt-in to the NAR settlement for two reasons, which they broke down in a recent statement on their website. Yesterday, California Regional MLS (CRMLS) launched a new set of MLS fields, Concessions in Price (CiP), to provide up-front communication on concessions to improve communication between listing agents, buyers agents, and home buyers.

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Housing Wire

MAY 30, 2024

In March 2024, the national delinquency rate for residential mortgages stood at 2.8% for the third month in a row, up slightly from March 2023, according to the latest CoreLogic Loan Performance Insights report. The data provider examined all stages of delinquencies to gain a complete view of the mortgage market and loan performance health. Early-stage delinquencies (mortgages 30 to 59 days past due) accounted for 1.5% of all mortgages in February, up from 1.1% in March 2023.

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