Pending Home Sales Marginally Rise in June
WASHINGTON (July 27, 2016) — Pending home sales were mostly unmoved in June, but did creep slightly higher as supply and affordability constraints prevented a bigger boost in activity from mortgage rates that lingered near all-time lows through most of the month, according to the National Association of Realtors®. Increases in the Northeast and Midwest […]
Housing Trends: Cash Sales Update April 2016
Cash Sales Accounted for 32 Percent of All Home Sales in April Cash sales accounted for 31.6 percent of total home sales in April 2016, down 2.8 percentage points year over year from April 2015. On a month-over-month basis, the cash sales share fell by 1.6 percentage points in April 2016 compared with March 2016. […]
Pending home sales inch upward, strained by supply
Mortgage rates are at historic lows, so in theory, lots of people should be thinking about buying a house right now. Is that playing out in reality? Not everywhere, according to NAR’s most recent Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI), which measures how many real estate contracts were signed in June …
Podcast: How one part-time agent grew his business from 10 to 60 sales a year
Can your daily workout make you money? What about your time on the golf course, your stop at Starbucks or volunteer work you do around your community? The beauty of being a real estate agent is that you can make money, and these often-mundane parts of your daily routine can become some of your best […]
The art of #hustle: Why most of us don’t know what it means
I bet you have seen the word hustle used all over the interwebs. I’m willing to bet many of you even use the word hustle to describe your activities. But what does hustle mean? Seriously, with the greats, such as Gary Vaynerchuk, Jon Acuff and Stu McLaren, you are going to see a variety of […]
7 real estate marketing habits to break today
So you sell houses, or help consumers find the home of their dreams. But clients’ first impression of you starts with your marketing efforts — online and in real life. Here are 7 practices you should throw out immediately to improve the quality of your marketing presence …
Black Knight LA home price index for May 2016
Black Knight Financial Services released its May 2016 home price index data for Los Angeles, based on summarized sales data — here’s how the metro measured up …
Daily market update: July 27, 2016
Mortgage rates plus all the latest real estate market news …
Black Knight Chicago home price index for May 2016
Black Knight Financial Services released its May 2016 home price index data for Chicago, based on summarized sales data — here’s how the metro measured up …
Black Knight Houston home price index for May 2016
Black Knight Financial Services released its May 2016 home price index data for Houston, based on summarized sales data — here’s how the metro measured up …
