Rapid Transit Project May Call For Eminent Domain
Question: I understand that our State government has plans to expand our rapid transit railway system and many of us are concerned that they will take our houses in order to complete the project. What is the law on this? Do they have the absolute right to do this?...Read MoreWhy Do So Many HOAs Fail To Properly Plan For Predictable Expenses?
It doesn't take a fortune teller to predict that common elements are going to wear out and it doesn't take a crystal ball to predict that HOAs are going to need money and a plan to fix them. So why do so many HOAs fail to properly plan for these predictable events and expenses?...Read More
The week in financial markets: two moves
Given only one soft landing on record, odds favor a different end: with the best of intentions the Fed will hike onward until we discover that a recession began four months ago....Read MoreNAR board approves $30 annual dues increase for 2019
The trade group plans to use the additional funds to boost its annual spending for political advocacy, a transaction management platform for members and other initiatives by $35.5 million and shore up its reserves....Read MoreNAR made $20 million from DocuSign IPO
The venture arm of the trade group, Second Century Ventures, made a total of $43.8 million from selling shares in DocuSign, returning $20 million to NAR and keeping $23.8 million for recapitalization. ...Read MoreHarbor CEO says blockchain will let you easily split real estate ownership
Harbor is one of the more complicated blockchain startups out there, but it has the potential to upend the investment side of the real estate industry....Read MoreFormer Trulia exec joins venture capital firm to spur real estate tech
Former Trulia president Paul Levine will join the venture capital firm Sapphire Ventures as a partner, where he will look for companies building on Trulia and Zillow's innovation in the real estate industry by improving the real estate transaction, he said Friday....Read MoreConnect the speakers: Zero-cost marketing tactics with big ROI
Katie Lance suggests that attendees of Inman Connect San Francisco this summer focus on implementing just one or two ideas that can grow into habits -- and why she’ll be offering up her own tactics to adopt in a session covering zero-cost marketing strategies that yield leads and referrals....Read MoreDid NAR consider tech partners other than zipLogix?
The National Association of Realtors has never given transaction management firms other that zipLogix — a firm the trade group partially owns — a chance to compete for its business through price or any other means, according to three of the most popular such firms in the industry....Read MoreMark Spain expands state by state on his terms
One of the benefits Mark Spain, former Keller Williams top team leader, finds in running his own company is he can expand at will. He doesn't have to have diplomatic talks with other Keller Williams offices to see if they will accommodate his team....Read MoreReal estate agents see electric scooter boom as mixed blessing
But Realtors in San Francisco and Los Angeles seem to be in two minds about whether they are in favor of the new wheeled sensations. If there's any consensus, it's that the scooters are a mixed blessing — and a fun idea that could help sell an area to buyers, especially millennials....Read MoreExperian reveals the 5 states with the lowest foreclosure rates
Although issues with low inventory and fast-growing home prices still abound, the market has greatly improved since the housing bubble in 2006, and the latest foreclosure rates prove it. In 2017, residential home foreclosures fell 27 percent to 676,525 — the lowest level since 2005....Read More