New front in old battle to protect listing photos
The National Association of Realtors® (NAR) is taking the real estate industry’s battle against the unauthorized use of real estate listing data to a new front: the U.S. Copyright Office. … Continue reading
Housing Demand Increasing In City Centers
Amid stabilizing U.S. home price growth lies a demographic shift that is underway across much of the country, according to Fitch Ratings in its latest quarterly U.S. RMBS Sustainable Home … Continue reading
Survey: 52% of Americans likely to buy a home in next five years
Just over half of Americans — 52% — say they are likely to buy a home in the next five years, according to the 2015 BMO Harris Bank Homebuyers Report. … Continue reading
Are School Districts Important To Home Buyers?
Either schools are of critical importance to a homebuyer, or they matter not at all. There’s very little middle ground because either homebuyers have kids or they don’t. Trulia’s recent … Continue reading
Florida Commercial Building Boom
Florida is seeing significant gains in commercial and multifamily construction. Tampa leads the trend with an 89% increase in spending from 2014 to 2015, with Orlando in second gaining 65% … Continue reading
Man arrested in Manatee County Realtor attack
A man has been charged with trying to rape a 69-year-old real estate agent while she was showing him a house, according to the Manatee County Sheriff’s Office. Bruce Anthony … Continue reading
Florida Real Estate Extremely Strong
Florida‘s housing market reported more closed sales, higher median prices, more pending sales, and fewer days on the market during the second quarter of 2015, according to the latest housing … Continue reading
Home Prices Rise in Nearly All Metro Areas
A promising climb in home sales throughout the country amidst insufficient supply caused home prices to steadily rise in most metro areas during the second quarter, according to the latest … Continue reading
Is Facebook going to be the new FICO in mortgage lending?
Forget FICO. Is Facebook going to be the new mortgage gatekeeper? Well, Facebook has pioneered social media, intrusive data collection, selling user data to third parties, potentiallyillegal psychological testing on … Continue reading
Can this sickly housing recovery survive without artificially low interest rates?
Trey Garrison is the Senior Financial Reporter for HousingWire.com. Trey has served as real estate editor for the Dallas Business Journal, and was one of the founding editors of D … Continue reading