by | Apr 19, 2024 | Economy, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
The Leading Economic Index (LEI) fell 0.3% in March to 102.4, a reverse from February’s slight increase, according to the latest release from The Conference Board. March’s LEI is down 2.2% over the six-month period between September 2023 and March 2024—down from its...
by | Apr 19, 2024 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
BoomTown ROI, a real estate proptech company, confirmed Thursday that the cause of a multi-day system outage affecting potentially thousands of real estate professionals, was a system-wide hack from a malicious third-party source that began on April 10. The company,...
by | Apr 19, 2024 | Economy, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
In a mixed bag for housing, mortgage applications for new homes jumped in March, while new-construction sales simultaneously fell amid affordability woes, according to the Mortgage Bankers Association (MBA). Mortgage applications for new-home purchases rose 6.2% in...
by Beth McGuire | Apr 18, 2024 | Agents, Best Practices, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Erin Peel remembers poring through the pictures in her mother’s heavy and closely guarded MLS book when she was just a kid in Kansas City – and while her mom left the real estate business after several years, the image of all those lovely homes stayed with her. Her...
by | Apr 18, 2024 | Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
After a promising start to the year, existing-home sales declined 4.3% in March, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.19 million, according to the latest report from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR). This represents a 3.7% decline year-over-year (in...
by | Apr 18, 2024 | Economy, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier |
Marking a third straight week of increases and moving over 7% for the first time this year, the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaged 7.10% this week, up from last week’s increase to 6.88%, according to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®) from...