Rick Haase to Lead Panel on Best Paths to Success at RISMedia’s 2024 Real Estate’s Rocking in the New Year
RISMedia is excited to announce that Rick Haase, President of United Real Estate, will be heading up an industry-leading panel of real estate experts at the 2024 Real Estate’s Rocking in the New Year, the company’s fourth-annual all-virtual conference to be broadcast live on Jan. 11, 2024. Click here to register! Haase’s panel, The 5…
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Bright MLS Named Finalist for Digital Awards
Bright MLS has announced that its digital campaign, “Open Housing Marketplace,” featuring an original digital short, “A Place to Call Home,” has been named a finalist in two categories, Responsible Technology and Diversity, Equity and Inclusion of the 3rd Annual Anthem Awards, a special focus of the Webby Awards that honors purpose and mission-driven work…
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What’s in Store for 2024? A Look Back—and Forward—at the Housing Market
Every real estate professional knows that 2023 has been a challenging year for the housing market, with consumers facing many hurdles to homeownership. As the year winds down, the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) is looking back at where we’ve been over the last 12 months and where we’re likely to go in 2024 to…
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Mortgage Mix: Black Knight Wins $155 Million Arbitration; Refi on the Rise
Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s weekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it each Friday. –Freddie Mac announced a new down payment assistance push, standardizing and streamlining the process for borrowers to receive financial help when purchasing a house. A Freddie executive called the new procedures a big step toward “clarity…
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Brokers Take a Confident but Realistic Approach to 2024
Above, from left, Michele Harrington, CEO, First Team Real Estate; Craig Cheatham, President & CEO, The Realty Alliance; Gretchen Pearson, President/Owner, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Drysdale Properties; and David Romero, EVP of Growth, Realty ONE Group. Photo by Aidan Whalen. Exactly two weeks after the bombshell ruling in the Burnett vs. NAR trial was delivered, five…
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Unemployment Edges Down to 3.7%
The U.S. added 199,000 jobs in November, and the unemployment rate fell slightly to 3.7%, according to the latest Employment Situation Summary from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. With the unemployment rate only falling slightly from 3.9% in October, the number of unemployed persons changed little at 6.3 million. Employment growth in November was…
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Consumer Sentiment Sees First Rise in Months
The economy has been a matter of discrepancy for much of 2023. The data and relevant reports show an economy that on paper is improving; unemployment is low (about 3.7% as of the last jobs report), and the Federal Reserve hasn’t raised interest rates in the last few months, a sign of slowing inflation. However,…
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Search Vs. Social: Agents at All Levels Weigh the Varying Pros and Cons of Digital Marketing Strategies
With real estate marketing becoming increasingly digital, agents have invested huge slices of their budgets in online listing platforms while still tapping into the two most common bridges to the virtual world: search engines and social media. Both offer tremendous access to potential buyers and sellers, but the approaches to the two tactics—either through paid…
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ASK THE NEWSMAKERS: Conducting Business Through the Holidays
The holiday season is generally thought of as a winding down time, a chance to steel yourself before the new year begins. But for real estate professionals, keeping the momentum going throughout the last few weeks of the year is critical, so we asked a few of our 2023 Real Estate Newsmakers the following question:…
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New York’s Coldwell Banker Warburg Promotes New Leader
Coldwell Banker Warburg has announced today that the firm’s Chief Operating Officer Kevelyn Guzman will become its new leader. A real estate industry veteran, Guzman has spent over 16 years at Coldwell Banker Warburg, spearheading numerous projects and initiatives, and providing leadership during the many ups and downs of the New York real estate market.…
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