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9 tips for high-converting real estate landing pages

Housing Wire

Sure, your real estate landing pages look great — but do they convert? Before you hire a copywriter or enlist ChatGPT to help you write catchy phrases and descriptions, review our guide covering the key elements that every real estates landing page should have, plus a few dazzling examples.

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Opinion: Foreign land ownership legislation and principles for protecting property rights

Housing Wire

Many of these laws target specific types of real estate deemed crucial to national security, such as farmland or property near military installations, while other laws apply more broadly to all types of land. Laws should mandate that authorized state agencies record relevant documents and court orders in local land records.

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Land sales volume remains high, but slower than pandemic peak

Housing Wire

Land sales volume continued to exceed the five-year average of $650 million in gross sales during the first six months of 2023, but gross sales are off from the record-setting pace of 2021 and 2022, according to Farmers National Company mid-year land values report , released Tuesday.

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‘Abandoned’ Bay Area land will be developed into housing

Housing Wire

Encinal Terminals, a 32-acre plot of land that formerly operated as a shipping terminal on the north side of Alameda, California, will be developed into a new housing development in an effort to bolster the supply of one of the most expensive areas in the country. This is according to reporting at the Mercury News and the Alameda Post.

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Senate unanimously passes Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act, MBA applauds

Housing Wire

The United States Senate on Tuesday passed the Tribal Trust Land Homeownership Act of 2023 via unanimous consent, and will now make its way to the House of Representatives for deliberation. In response, the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA) applauded the move. One of the bill’s co-sponsors, Sen. Mike Rounds (R-S.D.),

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To spur affordable housing, the federal government is selling land for dirt cheap

Housing Wire

Department of the Interior announced this week its plans to arrange the sale of federal land to the State of Nevada in an effort to spur construction of affordable housing units in the Las Vegas metropolitan area. Additional authority is established in a specific section of the law since the land is being sold well below fair market value.

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Navigating land purchase and investment strategies

Inman

Land expert and new Inman Contributor Poujan Sadri offers insights to help you understand the world of land use and development for residential, commercial or industrial projects.

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