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RISMEDIA, April 30, 2009-The Appraisal Institute, one of the nation's largest organizations of professional real estate appraisers, is urging Congressional representatives to pass H.R. 1728, the Mortgage Reform and Anti-Predatory Lending Act of 2009, a bill that would eliminate a number of regulatory loopholes in the mortgage lending system and ...
RISMEDIA, April 30, 2009-Most baby boomers, like their parents, are choosing to "age in place," but a large and growing number - more than 1.2 million households - are choosing to move to communities designed to meet their needs, according to a study released by the National Association of Home ...
RISMEDIA, April 30, 2009-W&R Studios announced that MetroList Services, one of the largest MLS providers in California, added Dwellicious integration to it's popular consumer portal, MetroListMLS.com. MetroListMLS.com currently receives over 300,000 visitors per month. ...
RISMEDIA, April 30, 2009-RealtyTrac®, one of the leading online marketplaces for foreclosure properties, and Enormo, a leading global real estate portal, announced a groundbreaking strategic alliance that will give Enormo's international user base of potential homebuyers and investors unique access to RealtyTrac's database of U.S. foreclosures. ...
RISMEDIA, April 30, 2009-Real estate website Zillow.com announced the launch of the Zillow® iPhone App, bringing Zillow's rich data on 88 million U.S. homes to the streets, and into users' hands. Using GPS technology, the Zillow iPhone App pinpoints a user's location on a dynamic map and shows Zestimate® values ...
RISMEDIA, April 29, 2009-Data through February 2009, released by Standard & Poor's for its S&P/Case-Shiller1 Home Price Indices, one of the leading measures of U.S. home prices, shows continued broad based declines in the prices of existing single family homes across the United States, with 10 of the 20 metro ...
RISMEDIA, April 29, 2009-Home sales increased 63.8% in March in California compared with the same period a year ago, while the median price of an existing home declined 39%, the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.) reported. ...
RISMEDIA, April 29, 2009-The weekly average rate borrowers were quoted on
Zillow Mortgage Marketplace for thirty-year mortgages remained relatively steady last week. Last week's rate was 5.07%, up slightly from 5.06% the week prior, according to the Zillow Mortgage Rate Monitor, compiled by real estate website Zillow.com®. Meanwhile, ...
RISMEDIA, April 29, 2009-The number of newly built, single-family homes on the market declined for a 23rd consecutive month in March as builders focused on winnowing down their inventories of unsold units, according to new-home sales data reported by the U.S. Commerce Department. Inventory shrank to 311,000 units, which is ...
RISMEDIA, April 29, 2009-In a first-of-its-kind partnership for the real estate industry Market Leader (http://www.marketleader.com), an online marketing technology company for real estate professionals, announced a strategic relationship with Realty Executives International to offer the company's RealtyGenerator lead generation and lead management system as well as its lead generation expertise ...
RISMEDIA, April 29, 2009-NRT LLC, one of the nation's largest residential real estate brokerage companies, announced that veteran real estate executive Rick Turley has been named president of one of its newly reorganized companies, Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage in the San Francisco Bay Area. Turley most recently was president of ...
RISMEDIA, April 29, 2009-Realty Executives International announced an innovative online lead generation program, pay-per-click advertising strategy and new technology initiative. ...
RISMEDIA, April 28, 2009-The end is near. When exactly, is hard to predict. It is also hard to predict what that end will look like. However, it is hard to escape the sense that some things will change forever. But what? Will law and order, if you can call this that, descend into chaos? Will nations withdraw from the global economy and seek self-sufficiency and protectionism? Will complex monetary systems that allow insider manipulation be replaced by barter? Will Brad and Angelina ever tie the knot? These are the great questions of our time.
RISMEDIA, April 28, 2009-Power Brokers from across the country recently partcipated in RISMedia's 21st Annual
Power Broker Survey. With over 950 responses, this year's survey shows that despite the tough economy, brokers are taking the opportunity to reevaluate their business model and position themselves for when the market ...
RISMEDIA, April 28, 2009-Bank of America introduced its Bank of America Home Loans brand at locations nationwide and unveiled new tools through which homebuyers and homeowners will find greater clarity in the home finance process. The Clarity CommitmentTM, a single, one-page loan summary clearly presents to borrowers their interest rate, ...
