by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 28, 2012 | For Your Clients |
(MCT)—Despite a steadying housing market, sellers and real estate agents still complain that low appraisals delay or kill up to 15 percent of all deals. In recent years, agents and others blamed a 2009 law that they said inadvertently led to less-experienced...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 26, 2012 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Pending home sales declined in June but marked 14 consecutive months of year-over-year gains, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings, slipped 1.4 percent to 99.3 in...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 26, 2012 | For Your Clients |
(MCT)–Recent power outages, coupled with the extreme heat, prompted several reader calls to the Free Press Test Kitchen about whether food in refrigerators and freezers was safe to keep. If your power was out just a few hours and you didn’t open the refrigerator...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 25, 2012 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Recent data indicate a slowdown in economic activity for the remainder of 2012, yet modest growth is still expected, according to Fannie Mae’s Economic & Strategic Research Group. Breaking pace with a strong first quarter, consumer spending has weakened in recent...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 25, 2012 | Content Generation, For Your Clients, Social Media |
(MCT)—Rewind four years to the Summer Olympics in Beijing, and you’ll understand how this year’s marquee sporting event will be unlike anything ever before. Back then, there was no such thing as an iPad, smartphones were just starting to roll out and Twitter had less...
by Susanne Dwyer | Jul 24, 2012 | Best Practices, For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
June existing home sales might be down 5.4 percent nationwide, but hot weather is heating up hot markets to boiling, pushing sales to levels unseen in years and raising the specter of price bubbles. Increased competition for the limited inventory of non-distressed...