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New brokerage, NuHabitat in beta Real estate and financial services veteran, Jeffrey Burke spent years at a legacy brokerage where after over a decade,...
2011 home seller trends – incentives According to the 2011 National Association of Realtors® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers which recently surveyed 5,708 home buyers and...
Prudential’s brokerage unit sold Prudential Financial Inc., the 136 year old American company has sold its real estate brokerage and relocation business to Brookfield...
Home prices slide Data and analytics firm, Lending Processing Services, Inc. (LPS) reports that home prices in September dropped 1.2 percent from August and...
Staying in homes longer in 2011 The 2011 National Association of Realtors® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers recently surveyed 5,708 home buyers and sellers and found...
Zillow adds Advisory Board member Zillow is announcing today the addition of CENTURY 21 Real Estate LLC’s chief marketing officer, Bev Thorne to Zillow’s...
Home purchase finance trends The 2011 National Association of Realtors® Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers recently surveyed 5,708 home buyers and sellers and discovered that the...
NAR President on the Hill This week, the National Association of Realtors’ (NAR’s) newest President, Moe Veissi spoke before the House Financial Services Committee...
Fannie, Freddie hit the pause button During the holidays, various banks and government organizations sometimes freeze evictions so that families can enjoy their holiday...
Third quarter negative equity report As of the third quarter, 10.7 million mortgages are underwater, 22.1 percent of all residential properties with a mortgage,...
State of foreclosures Mortgage delinquencies are down nearly a third from their peak in January 2010, according to the latest Lender Processing Services Inc....
2011 Blog Swap On December 15th, ActiveWebsite.com is hosting their inaugural national discussion and blog swap on the theme “Real Estate in 2030,” an...
One “lavish” conference Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac spent more than $640,000 this fall to send 100 employees to a Chicago mortgage-industry conference and...
Home prices up Although only by 0.2 percent, the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s (FHFA) seasonally adjusted purchase-only house price index (HPI) shows minor improvement...