by Jesse Williams | Jun 6, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
While rising home prices and volatile interest rates continue to compound the affordability pressures in the housing market, the same dynamics have also served to increase the housing wealth of American mortgage holders by a significant margin. This is according to...
by Jesse Williams | Jun 3, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Residential real estate brokers are feeling better about the state of their industry, albeit only a little bit. This was the key takeaway from RISMedia’s Broker Confidence Index (BCI) survey in May. The monthly survey polls more than 3,000 of the nation’s top brokers...
by Jesse Williams | Jun 3, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Adding a better-than-expected 390,000 jobs in May, the U.S. labor economy continues a blazing stretch of pandemic-recovery growth with overall unemployment holding at 3.6%, as most observers remain laser-focused on the Fed and a path toward balanced inflation and...
by Jesse Williams | Jun 2, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Premier, Teams |
The past couple of weeks have been filled with headlines of courtroom battles aimed at the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) and several prominent real estate companies across the U.S. From alleged anti-competitive practices to buyers and sellers taking issue...
by Jesse Williams | Jun 2, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
Mortgage rates essentially remained unchanged from the previous week with the 30-year fixed-rate mortgage (FRM) averaging 5.09%, inching down from 5.10% last week, according to the latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey® (PMMS®), released by Freddie Mac Thursday. Key...
by Jesse Williams | Jun 2, 2022 | Agents, Brokers, Industry News, Latest News, National, News, Premier, Teams |
As analysts and real estate insiders widely expect a housing market pullback in the coming months, there is a possibility this will correlate with a return of something many remember as the ugliest signs of the 2008 crash—namely, zombies. These so-called “zombie...