by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 7, 2013 | Marketing, News |
Housing markets in 52 out of the approximately 350 metro areas nationwide have now returned to or exceeded their pre-recessionary levels of activity, according to the newly minted National Association of Home Builders/First American Leading Markets Index (LMI),...
by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 6, 2013 | Marketing, News |
Housing is an important source of economic growth. As of the second quarter of 2013, housing’s share of gross domestic product (GDP) was 15.6 percent, with home building yielding 3.1 percentage points of that total. Housing-related activities contribute to GDP in two...
by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 3, 2013 | Best Practices, Coaching, Marketing, News |
By now, most real estate professionals have already successfully incorporated social and digital media into their real estate business, using networks such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+. One site that not enough brokers are taking advantage of is Pinterest....
by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 2, 2013 | Marketing, News |
Investing in rural, undeveloped land continues to be a popular strategy among the affluent, according to the 2013 Land Report 100, the latest annual survey and ranking of the largest private landowners in the United States just published by The Land Report and...
by Susanne Dwyer | Oct 1, 2013 | Marketing, News |
In all the excitement over the qualified mortgage, qualified residential mortgage, and Basel III capital rules, as well as the introduction of GSE and FHA reform, it is easy to forget that a major rule still remains to be finalized—the RESPA/TILA harmonization rule....
by Susanne Dwyer | Sep 30, 2013 | Marketing, News |
Sales of newly built, single-family homes rose 7.9 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 421,000 units in August, according to newly released figures from HUD and U.S. Census Bureau. The gain partly offsets a dip in sales activity that occurred in July as...