Above, a screenshot from one of Homes.com’s new ads featuring Dan Levy of “Schitt’s Creek” fame and SNL’s Heidi Gardner. During one of America’s most enduring traditions, Super Bowl Sunday, Homes.com plans to make history, regardless of who takes home the championship trophy. Through four commercials reaching some 113 million viewers, the rapidly ascending real…
University at Buffalo School of Law professor Tanya Monestier, in an exclusive, lengthy and wide-ranging interview with RISMedia, explained that she has had some contact with the Department of Justice (DOJ) concerning potential workarounds to the NAR settlement, though she stressed she has no idea whether or not what she provided was helpful. The DOJ…
Left to right: Erika Leonard, Fiona Byrne, Scott Perkins, Tyler Szumada, Alexis Bandera and Kim Vaccaro. As a partner at Realty ONE Group Empower, in Buffalo, New York, Scott Perkins stands as a cornerstone of expertise and integrity within the local real estate market. With an impressive tenure in the industry, Perkins has consistently upheld…
Everyone has strengths and weaknesses. The job of a real estate agent encompasses a great many skills, and you are unlikely to perfect every one of them. But, like with all professions, some skills are more important than others. And when you must showcase them over and over again in order to succeed with current…
As Tom Petty sang, “The waiting is the hardest part.” Was he referring to homebuyer hopefuls? Not sure, but either way, it’s almost go-time for those who’ve waited patiently for mortgage rates to finally begin a downward trajectory after years of staying in the high sixes, sevens and even briefly the eights. Inflation has cooled,…
They’re the yangs to the high-mortgage-rate yins. The homeowners who have the 3% – 4% 30-year mortgage rates and have, over the last few years, refused to vacate, logically in most cases as they have not wanted to take on new mortgages in the 6% – 8% range. All evidence points to a rate cut…
Ahead of a key Federal Reserve meeting later this month to set interest rates, total nonfarm payroll employment increased by 142,000 in August, and the unemployment rate changed little at 4.2%, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported Aug. 6. The gains were weaker than forecasted predictions of 161,000 jobs, but were better than July’s…
Countering Move, Inc (the parent company of Realtor.com) and its court-filed request last week for a preliminary injunction that would prevent a former employee from using proprietary information allegedly accessed after joining rival Homes.com. parent company CoStar, a new filing Sept. 5 by CoStar listed three reasons the presiding judge, George H. Wu, should reject…
Hannah Matlock NeSmith Broker United | Leading Edge Real Estate Group Huntsville, Alabama www.LeadingEdgeUnited.com Region served: Alabama Years in real estate: 11 Number of offices: 8 Number of agents: 325 Key to continued growth and success: I have always lived with the motto that we should surround ourselves with people who know more than we…
Now that the now-famous date of Aug. 17, when complying with the National Association of REALTORS®’ (NAR) settlement became mandatory, has come and gone, the newest question is what happens if and when real estate renegades operate outside the box? What penalties might there be for those who ignore, bend or outright flout the rules,…
It’s coming. The Fed has strongly intimated that an interest rate is coming, most likely at its next meeting Sept. 18, and most everyone connected to real estate sales awaits with great hope. But will it really make a difference? Will one single rate cut of perhaps as much as half a percentage point really…
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