Like Wall Street, the real estate industry is feeling the painful effects of loose lending practices and bad mortgage loans. Now, more than ever, prospective home buyers and sellers should be aware of what’s happening with the housing market — and where it’s headed — in order to make smart decisions. HGTV shares these top [...]
Author of The WAHM Agent explains why the current real estate market is the perfect time for moms who wish to work in the real estate industry to become licensed and build a successful real estate business.
Tracy Dearman has plenty of long-term perspective on the current real estate downturn. She runs a small San Francisco brokerage that was started by her grandmother on Haight Street more than 50 years ago. “We have seen many cycles in the real estate market, but nothing quite like this,” said Dearman, 46. “Our sales and [...]
It is advisable that inexperienced homebuyers should look to realtors to help them search for a residential real estate property in Miami. These professionals can also lend you their expertise in the market to process all the necessary requirements that comes with acquisition, ensuring that you get the best property that fits with your requirements.
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The trade group for real estate agents spent more than $3.7 million lobbying the federal government in the second quarter as it pressed for measures to aid the hobbled housing market.
The Chicago-based National Association of Realtors, a major lobbying player on Capitol Hill, pushed hard for the housing bill signed by President Bush last month, [...]
When home sales began to slow at the start of the downturn, home builders offered buyers incentives — instead of reducing prices — to stimulate demand. The incentives included cars, tuition and credit-card payments, and even cash.
Now, federal investigators are questioning whether some of those incentives misled lenders and caused them to write mortgages that [...]
A house listing used to be an agent’s best friend, but now a qualified buyer is a real gem.
So before one gets away — along with a potential commission — broker Wayne Frankel wants buyer’s agent contracts signed, and he’ll give an agent one point toward a yearly prize for each loyal house hunter.
It’s like [...]
The most noticeable thing in Charles F. Hunt’s office is what’s missing: No family pictures on the walls. No certificates of achievement. No action figures from a favorite childhood movie perched on the desk.
It is just gray walls and clear windows in Hunt’s Osprey Avenue abode, where his family set up Hunt Real Estate ERA [...]
Bill Barnes, the new leader of the Bonita Springs-Estero Association of Realtors knows he is taking the helm in the midst of stormy economic times.
“It’s easy to guide a ship when the ocean is flat,” Barnes said. “We’re on the outer edges of a hurricane here.”
Barnes is a manager and developer of 13 different real [...]
We have all heard the tales of woe in the housing market. But for those who make their living in the world of buying and selling the aches and pains are even more acute.
“I sold a house a week ago for 30 thousand dollars,” Coldwell Banker Burnett realtor Faith McGown said. “That’s the lowest ever [...]