by Suzanne De Vita | Mar 2, 2017 | Latest News, National, News, Trending |
The U.S. Senate issued a final vote Thursday confirming Ben Carson as secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), 58-41. The party-line approval assigns Carson leadership of the agency, which currently has a budget of $47 billion and more than...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 2, 2017 | Best Practices, Broker, Latest News, News, Spotlights, Trending |
In the following interview, Robert J. Bailey, broker/owner of Bailey Properties in Santa Cruz, Calif., discusses onboarding his agents to a new system, scoring a 90 percent adoption rate. Region Served: Santa Cruz County, the Monterey Bay Region and Silicon Valley...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 1, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Consumer, Latest News, Lead Story, News, Trending |
Generational shifts are set to give rise to more investment in remodeling, as baby boomer homeowners adopt accessible living, Gen Xer homeowners complete put-off projects and millennials become homeowners, according to a recently released report by the Harvard...
by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 1, 2017 | Agent, Best Practices, Broker, Latest News, Teams, Trending |
According to the IRS, about 20 percent of U.S. income tax filers—that’s one out of five—wait until the week of April 15 to crunch out their returns. And approximately 61 percent of those returns are balance-due. If you are a busy REALTOR®, and you know you are...
by Suzanne De Vita | Feb 28, 2017 | Buying/Selling, Latest News, Lead Story, National, News, Trending |
Home prices in the U.S. hiked to their highest level in more than two years in December, posting a 5.8 percent annual gain, according to the recently released S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index. Their pace, though substantial, is not...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 28, 2017 | Best Practices, Broker, Coaching, Latest News, Lead Gen, Trending |
Many real estate professionals have graduated from the “school of hard knocks” or some form of “OJT,” on the job training, with a trail of successes and failures and a string of transient mentors along the way, months or even years after they...