10-Year High Profits for Sellers
Homeowners are profiting when selling—and their average earnings haven't been this high since 2007. At the close of 2017, the...
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The Power of Home
New Story Builds Shelter and Second Chances When two of New Story's four co-founders took a mission trip to Haiti...
CFPB ‘Constitutional’ After Appeals Court Ruling
An appeals court on Wednesday upheld the constitutionality of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's (CFPB) organizational structure. The agency, which...
Mortgage Rates Up One-Quarter Percentage Point Since Start of Year
The average 30-year, fixed mortgage rate is 4.22 percent—hitting more than a one-quarter percentage point increase since the start of...
Pending Home Sales Edge Up
Pending home sales edged up in December, 0.5 percent in the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Pending Home Sales Index...
Exceeding Inflation, Home Prices Rising Swiftly
Homes are appreciating at a healthy pace, with November prices up 6.2 percent year-over-year, according to the S&P CoreLogic/Case-Shiller Indices....
The Truth About Technology and the Role of a Real Estate Agent
NAR PULSE—In the last 15 years, the "golden age of consumerism" has ushered in unprecedented access to real estate data,...
Creating Personalized Service to Attract Loyal Clients
In the following interview, Jennifer Shemwell, president of Phyllis Browning Company, a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the...
Homeownership Rate Makes Marginal Progress
2017 closed with the homeownership rate improving, but at a slight standstill: 64.2 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's...
Hot in Housing: The Bay Area Rules
The Bay Area—chiefly San Francisco, San Jose and Vallejo—is on a hot streak, with no pointers to a slowdown this...
Cash Flow Matters as Much as Revenue
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