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Enhance your Agent Website with Market Reports

Enhance your Agent Website with Market Reports

Real estate market reports are extremely interesting – and valuable – to clients and to prospects. They enable clients to get detailed information about recent home sales in their neighborhood. Since one of your main goals as a real estate professional is to make your website as “sticky” as possible – to make people stay [...]

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The Home Search Process is Moving Online

The Home Search Process is Moving Online

According to a new Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, recently released by the National Association of REALTORS®, the Internet has become an essential and indispensable tool in the home search process.

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Listing Domains Launches new Flash Image Gallery

Listing Domains Launches new Flash Image Gallery

ATTN ListingDomains users! We have just released our new Flash Slide Show control that can display your property photos FULL SCREEN at FULL RESOLUTION. Our dynamic resizer will optimize and display your photos to fit any size monitor. Our enhanced slide show features include: Unlimited Photos Dragable Thumbnail Strip Photo Captions Set Your Image Timing [...]

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Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Move Down

Bankrate: Mortgage Rates Move Down

The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate fell to 5.41 percent, according to Bankrate.com’s weekly national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.27 discount and origination points.

The average 15-year fixed and jumbo 30-year fixed mortgage rates dropped by equal amounts, to 4.74 percent and 6.34 percent, respectively. Adjustable rate mortgages were mixed, with the average 1-year ARM rising to 5.15 percent and the 5-year ARM inching lower to 4.94 percent.

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Happy Friday – Strong Gain in Existing-Home Sales Maintains Uptrend

Happy Friday – Strong Gain in Existing-Home Sales Maintains Uptrend

According to a post today by the National Association of Realtors (NAR), for the first time in five years, existing-home sales have increased for four months in a row; monthly increase is the largest in 23 years. Existing home sales rose 7.2 % to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.24 million units in July [...]

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Has Government Intervention Stalled Home Price Declines?

Has Government Intervention Stalled Home Price Declines?

Interesting article in the Wall Street Journal about it. Read It Here Share on Facebook

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Almost half of homeowners with a mortgage could be underwater by 2011, says Deutsche Bank.

Almost half of homeowners with a mortgage could be underwater by 2011, says Deutsche Bank.

This CNN article is not good news for those of us in the real estate industry. In it Karen Weaver from Deutsche Bank estimates that home prices in the US will fall another 14% causing 48% of homeowners to be upside down on their mortgage. What?? I thought we were bottoming out? Anyone have any [...]

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New iPhone app from WalkScore.com

New iPhone app from WalkScore.com

I just downloaded the new app from walkscore.com and must say, it is pretty cool.  Some of my favorite features include: It’s Free! Will find nearby Starbucks in a hurry Directions to the amenity of your choice GPS will map your location Includes restaurant reviews For all you iphone junkies out there, this is one [...]

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Real Estate Blogger Wanted!

Real Estate Blogger Wanted!

Welcome to Real Inventive – a fresh, innovative real estate blog that provides an online space where real estate agents and brokers can network, learn about new real estate technology and regulations, follow real estate news, and share interesting thoughts and ideas.

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Investor Report: Renting Versus Flipping

Investor Report: Renting Versus Flipping

Interesting article about an Oakland, California real estate investment fund carving out a niche that might work in other areas with roughly similar demographics.

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