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The 2012 outlook is improving modestly from a disappointing 2011. Economic growth picked up in the fourth quarter of 2011 to 2.8 percent and is expected to come in at 2.3 percent for 2012, up from 1.6 percent growth for all of last year, according to Fannie Mae’s (FNMA/OTC) Economic & Strategic Research Group. However, the year-end growth rate was due largely to a positive swing in business inventory growth, which is not indicative of underlying consumer demand or the overall health of the economy. Nevertheless, consumer spending improved modestly and manufacturing and services activity expanded at a strong pace.
NAR Pulse—This week’s headlines:
REALTOR® University Granted Approval to Offer Master of Real Estate Degree Program
REALTOR® University now offers a Master of Real Estate degree for real estate professionals
This week, Greg Rand (
@gsrand), CEO of
OwnAmerica.com and host of Rand on Real Estate on 770 WABC, discusses the importance of visiting an area where you are interested in investing with live caller Dan. Investing in a property
REALTOR.com® Business Beat—Winning listings is hard work. Agents spend hours preparing comps, painstakingly perfecting an online property marketing plan, and nailing a winning pricing strategy. And once you have a listing,
Finding a new place to live just became easier for consumers—who can now browse homes on their smartphones. The Real Estate Book recently launched an additional mobile tool—a free Android app to make looking through photos, maps,
(MCT)—Residential contractors are hoping that tight-fisted consumers will decide they need a new bathroom.
Or maybe it’s time for those old kitchen counters to go.
Perhaps it would be better to add another bedroom than move?
After three years of slumping business, builders anticipate that the home remodeling and improvement sector will pick up in 2012.
Posting your video on YouTube is only the beginning if you want it to attract a serious following. The real secret is to leverage it with other forms of social media to grow your audience.
For REALTORS® on-the-go, any steps one can pursue to save time and aid in effective communication with clients are essential to building and maintaining success throughout a thriving career in real estate. For technology-savvy REALTORS®
“The fact is, agents who use the right tools and provide excellent customer service are still doing well,” says Jason Waugh, president and COO of Prudential Northwest Properties. In the following interview, RISMedia columnist Barbara Pronin
As the February 24th deadline approaches for completing RISMedia’s 24th Annual Power Broker Survey, hundreds of leading real estate firms have already submitted their surveys, ensuring their spot in the preeminent ranking of the industry’s top residential real estate brokerages. To take the survey now,
click here.
Survey respondents to date represent leading franchise brands and independent real estate brokerages from across the country. Among the top firms who have already completed this year’s survey are:
RE/MAX Alliance - Colorado
Houlihan Lawrence - New York State
MTV knows a thing or two about reaching, captivating and controlling the eyeballs of their audience. Their rein as the go-to source for pop culture information, as well as the inventors of Reality TV, has them ingrained within the TVs,
Building on significant upward revisions to numbers for the previous two months, nationwide production of new single-family homes and apartments increased 1.5 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of nearly 700,000 units in January,
The delinquency rate for mortgage loans on one-to-four-unit residential properties decreased to a seasonally adjusted rate of 7.58 percent of all loans outstanding as of the end of the fourth quarter of 2011, a decrease of 41 basis points
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben S. Bernanke made the following speech at the 2012 National Association of Homebuilders International Builders' Show, held in Orlando, Fla. on February 10.
Housing Markets in Transition
The economic recovery began more than two years ago, but it doesn't feel like much of a recovery for many Americans—certainly for those of you who depend on the housing sector for your living, as well as for the millions of others who have seen their home values plummet or lost their homes through foreclosure. Though some progress has been made in reversing the losses in jobs and income sustained during the recession,
We, the little people, are not alone. Or so say the gossip rags.
The country is riddled with houses in foreclosure—people from all walks of life have been hit hard,
