Foreclosures are surging in some locales, and some housing experts view that as a good thing for the housing market this spring. Foreclosures tend to be priced lower, and many markets are starved for inventory in the lower end of the market.Bank repossessions across the U.S. may have plunged to an 11-year low in 2017, but that hasn’t been the case in every market. New Jersey saw the opposite, with bank repossession hitting an 11-year high in 20
The Department of Housing and Urban Development is considering changing its mission statement to remove what it calls antidiscrimination language. HUD Secretary Ben Carson has been leading the charge and seeking to add in “self-sufficiency,” a major focus of his since taking the helm of HUD.A draft being circulated of the new mission statement reads:HUD’s mission is to ensure Americans have access to fair, affordable housing and opportunit
The National Association of REALTORS® is planning to roll out a program later this year to help you test how well you stack up on 11 core competencies in the real estate profession. Courteousness is one of them—transactions can succeed or fail, in part, due to how well you and another agent communicate and cooperate. Few things are more frustrating than working with an agent who doesn’t strive for the same level of professionalism as you.The
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A third REALTOR® lost a child in the Valentine’s Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., REALTOR® Magazine has learned. Mitchell Dworet, a sales associate with Skye Louis Realty in Coconut Creek, Fla., lost his 17-year-old son, Nicholas, in the massacre that killed 17 people. The daughters of two other area REALTORS®, Fred Guttenberg and Shara Kaplan, were also gunned down in the melee, which ranks as one of
You may attempt to optimize your work time by hiring assistants or support staff, upgrading tools and equipment, and improving your systems. Even so, you may not be taking advantage of every minute in the day. What activities are wasting your time at work? Business news website SmallBusinessTrends.com flags the top time-wasters. Email. Consider the amount of time you and your coworkers spend every day wading through emails that drone on with ver
As home prices rise, more buyers are finding they need to earn more to break into some housing markets. SmartAsset, a personal finance resource, recently analyzed the salary residents need to buy a median-priced home in 15 of the nation’s largest cities.In some cities, buyers may need to bring more than just savings from a paycheck. For example, in three big cities—San Francisco, San Jose, Calif., and New York—buyers need to make more than
Commercial real estate executives say this year’s increase in interest rates is what has them the most worried about the impact to commercial real estate markets in 2018, according to a new sentiment survey released by Seyfarth Shaw, a law firm. Commercial executives are bracing for multiple rate increases throughout the year, too.Low unemployment and a strong economy should be giving a boost to the executives’ outlook, but instead they said
Landlords own thousands of single-family homes across the U.S. With housing shortages abounding, some are calling on landlords to start selling. A slowdown in rent growth may convince more to finally unload their inventories.“As new multifamily supply catches up with demand and slows rents, some large investors may begin putting their holdings of affordable single-family homes up for sale, which would be great news, particularly for first-time
A living room is considered essential for first-time home buyers, according to a poll of home shoppers conducted by the National Association of Home Builders. Sixty-one percent called the living room a must-have in the home they plan to buy. A laundry room and dining room also ranked high on the must-have list for first-time buyers.The following are home features that first-time buyers call essential, ranked in order of what they deemed as most
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