As any local agent can attest, New York City’s luxury real estate market ebbs and flows, especially these days. In early April, Olshan Realty reported just 18 contracts signed at $4 million and higher, but for the week of April 11 to 17, an astonishing twenty-eight contracts were signed — a 50 percent week-over-week rise …
Manhattan’s top luxury apartment contracts in mid-April Read More »
Haiku Deck, a snappy and visual alternative to PowerPoint and Keynote that has, until today, been an iPad app, released its first-ever native iPhone version (Haiku Deck 4.0) free for download in the App Store. It’s a progression that founder Adam Tratt knows users have been asking for … Powered by WPeMatico
Forgoing a mortgage and putting all cash on a property might increase bargaining power – right? Not necessarily, according to RealtyTrac’s Q1 2016 U.S. Cash & Institutional Investor Housing Market Report, which shows cash buyers in San Francisco, San Jose Manhattan, Los Angeles and Naples paying premiums instead of discounts … Powered by WPeMatico
The number of homes sold in March 2016 in Alamance, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, Santa Clara, San Francisco, San Mateo, Solano and Sonoma counties totaled 6,754. Data from CoreLogic reveals this to be a 37 percent increase from February, but a 2.9 decrease year-over-year … Powered by WPeMatico
Carolynn Diakon, Founder of Resources Real Estate, discusses what segment of real estate automation will impact the most, the game-changing technology that she uses and how to get it right … Powered by WPeMatico
What if you could save listings on real estate websites to your Facebook account with one click? Thanks to a website plug-in recently unveiled by Facebook, real estate sites can now stitch that functionality into their listing search experience. Property sites serving Pakistan and United Arab Emirates have already done it … Powered by WPeMatico
Despite today’s time-consuming lending process, more than 70 percent of the 1,300 homeowners surveyed in this year’s fourth annual TD Bank Mortgage Service Index rated their most recent buying experience as “very good” or “excellent,” an increase of nearly 10 percent over the past two years … Powered by WPeMatico
Real estate investors often overlook the role a partnership with a real estate agent can do for them in their quest for investment property transactions. These investors will do their own research, seek out opportunities and then find a real estate agent to help them, never creating a solid working relationship with one person.8u … …
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New agents are still a long way from receiving the support and training they need to thrive in real estate. That’s what we learned from 482 agents, brokers and other industry professionals who took our survey. Two pieces of advice stand out in our research … Powered by WPeMatico
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) released its March Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contract signings. March’s PHSI is part of a two-month upward trend and is the highest PHSI in almost a year. “Despite supply deficiencies in plenty of areas, contract activity was fairly strong in a majority of markets …
Pending home sales: Low rates mitigating home price ‘sting’ Read More »
