Subscribe To Our Daily Newsletter!

Baby boomers are becoming seniors at a rate of 10,000 per day, 4 million per year. By 2020, 80 million people in the U.S. will be 65 or older. Many will uproot to flee ice storms and frost heaves, move closer to kids and grandkids, or seek gated retirement communities for security and social activities. It should matter to REALTORS® where boomers choose to live. Seniors commit fewer crimes and drive less, but require more medical facilities, which will increasingly affect municipal and federal spending. A study from the Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University states

One of the most dreaded chores around the house is laundry. Maybe that’s why when selling a house, the laundry room is one of the most forgotten areas to get in shape. The machines are often dusty, with detergent dripping down the sides

Century 21 Real Estate LLC recently announced that its brokers and agents raised $1.97 million in 2011 on behalf of Easter Seals. ...

The Golden Isles Association of REALTORS ® announced its 2011 Award winners during an event recently held at the Jekyll Island Club Hotel on February 24, 2012. ...

In the progressive real estate climate that we are currently in, staying on top of news and industry trends is crucial in order to secure new business and maintain success. With Lowe’s Program for REALTORS®, REALTORS®

Realogy Corporation, a global provider of real estate and relocation services, recently announced that its Global Client Solutions (GCS) group has entered into a three-year agreement to provide integrated corporate real estate services including strategic planning and transaction management to Miracle-Ear®. The company leverages the latest advances in communications technology, ...

RE/MAX of New England recently announced the availability of its new innovative smart phone app. RE/MAX is the first to incorporate the new Real Estate Network powered by ListHub, which is the nation’s premier network for listing assets management, while still offering its consumers the ability to search for homes ...

Recently, Acting Federal Housing (FHA) Commissioner Carol Galante announced significant price cuts to FHA’s Streamline Refinance Program that could benefit millions of borrowers whose mortgages are currently insured by FHA.

Housing affordability conditions have reached the highest level since recordkeeping began in 1970, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. NAR's Housing Affordability Index rose to a record high 206.1 in January, based on the relationship between median home price, median family income and average mortgage interest rate. The higher the index, the greater the household purchasing power. An index of 100 is defined as the point where a median-income household has exactly enough income to qualify for the purchase of a median-priced existing single-family home, assuming a 20 percent downpayment and 25 percent

RES.NET, an infrastructure of diverse real estate professionals and supporting software applications, has recently launched a Global Messaging Center across all of their portals, enabling all parties working together to communicate with each other at both a global, and property level, without leaving the RES.NET system. ...

J. Rockcliff REALTORS®, a premier residential real estate company in the San Francisco East Bay, recently announced a variety of awards given to their top producing agents. ...

Combine our technology-driven world and today’s challenging real estate market and you have a good recipe for one overwhelmed real estate professional. In addition to the daily challenges of listing and selling properties, you now have the added must-do’s of keeping your website up to date, blogging, creating and posting to your social media pages and sending mailers. What are you going to blog about? What types of information should you post to social media pages? And where are you going to get the content?

The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) recently announced a new comprehensive framework for housing finance system reform that would transition Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to a new mortgage securitization system

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Department of the Treasury today released the February edition of the Obama Administration's Housing Scorecard—a comprehensive report on the nation’s housing market. Data continues to show signs that the housing market is strengthening, although the recovery remains fragile. The supply of new and existing homes on the market continued to decline last month. However, home prices dipped again as seasonal lows continued for the fourth month in a row. The continued fragility of the housing market underscores the need for recently-announced expansions of assistance to help prevent foreclosures and strengthen hard hit communities. The full Housing Scorecard is available online at www.hud.gov/scorecard.

J. Rockcliff REALTORS®, a premier residential real estate company in the San Francisco East Bay and member of RISMedia’s Real Estate Information Network® (RREIN), announced that the company has bestowed the “Office of the Year” award on the company’s Danville office. The annual award recognizes outstanding achievement in year-over-year growth ...