Home prices rose in February
U.S. home prices are up a modest 0.5 percent from January to February, according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA)....Read MoreNew-home sales rose in March
New home sales rose 4.5 percent from February to March and increased 3 percent year-over-year to a seasonally adjusted rate off 692,000....Read MoreSpring awakening? Homebuyer forecast rosier than first projected
For those expecting a rough homebuying season, there's reason to remain hopeful. Realtor.com on Tuesday issued a revised forecast projecting a more robust market than originally predicted....Read MoreJudge rules against condo board’s discriminatory swimming pool rule
The ACLU announced a victory in a discrimination suit against a New Jersey condominium community for seniors that enforced a policy that limited tenants’ pool usage based on their gender....Read MoreFresh design ideas for staging a home in spring
Interior Marketing Group Founder and CEO Cheryl Eisen and Co-Staging Director Christina Slater offer some simple-to-implement tips for staging contemporary, yet warm environments....Read MoreHow to find your niche market as an agent
Today’s up-and-coming homebuying generations, from the millennials to Gen Z, are all about personalized service. It’s no secret; they expect it at every turn, and that includes their real estate transactions. ...Read MoreWhy it’s actually the seller who pays our commission
For years, our industry has fervently debated who really pays the commission — the buyer or the seller. This debate turned up at the final session of Inman Disconnect, where one attendee argued that it's the buyers who actually pay the commission because it's embedded in the purchase price. Here's why this argument is wrong....Read MoreWould you like to work at a brokerage where you own a piece of the pie?
Counselor Realty isn't a true cooperative, but it operates a lot like one. Almost 100 of the company’s agents are shareholder-partners, and they love it. Here, Andy Barns and Nick Dreher, the company's CEO and director of growth, respectively, share more about this unusual brokerage model....Read MoreKeller Williams iBuyer program Keller Offers to debut in May
Keller Williams will launch an iBuying program next month in Texas and plans to expand that program to as many as eight metro areas by the end of the year....Read MoreMaroon 5’s Adam Levine wants to sell Beverly Hills mansion
Maroon 5 lead singer Adam Levine has just put his extravagant Beverly Hills estate on the market for a whopping $47.5 million....Read More