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| Archived Since: | May 6, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Nearly half of all US homeowners with a mortgage still ‘underwater’ in Q1
Despite rising home prices early in the year, a significant portion of U.S. homeowners with a mortgage, about 44 percent, still owed more on their home than it was worth or didn’t have enough equity to move at the end of the...
Move Inc. Acquires Doorsteps – Providing Consumers Tools to Home Ownership
Move.Inc. has announced today the acquisition of Doorsteps, the online tool for perspective home buyers. The acquisition of Doorsteps better enables Move to connect consumers...
3 Game Changing Reasons for Getting Started With Google Analytics [Infographic]
For most people, analytics is one of those subjects that other people pay attention to. There are a number of...
Calculated Risk: Housing inventory won’t bottom until 2014 [VIDEO]
Former tech executive turned blogger Bill McBride was one of the first to suggest that homes were precariously overvalued back...
New ad campaign highlights California Realtors’ role in state economy
The California Association of Realtors announced a new TV, Web, radio and print ad campaign today that highlights the positive impact its 155,000 members have on the state's economy. Two 30-second TV spots, featuring the "ripple" effect...Show More Summary
National Association of Realtors to release national MLS
A national multiple listing service run by the National Association of Realtors should be ready by late summer, the large trade association announced today. NAR has been working for the last decade to put all of the nation's agent-represented homes for sale into one database, consolidating the 800-plus multiple listing services in the U.S. Show More Summary
April Fools’ Day real estate roundup
On the first day of April each year, communities, businesses and news outlets come up with stories intended to fool, amuse, and, sometimes, satirize. Here's a roundup of the posts...
NAR Tech Edge to launch this month
The National Association of Realtors will launch its tech-conference tour this month, the trade group announced today. The first event of the tour will be held on April 12 in Fairfax, Va., and others will follow in different locations throughout the summer and fall...
Study: Neighborhood zoning helped cause crisis
A new study published in the journal Housing Policy Debate may have identified another contributing factor to the financial crisis: neighborhood zoning...
Protect yourself against loan lock scams
A price quote means nothing until it is properly locked with the lender. A rate lock, as it is commonly called, is the lender's commitment that it will make the specified loan at the specified price within a specified future period.Show More Summary
8 tips for buying in a tight market
It's always hard to predict how long it will take to find a home to buy. Given the current low-inventory environment, it may take you longer than it would in a balanced market that has enough homes for sale to satisfy the current buyer demand. Show More Summary
‘Inman Incubator’ program aims to accelerate innovation
Inman News announces that applications for Inman Incubator, a real estate startup accelerator program, are now open. The Inman Incubators program is a yearlong mentorship, advisory and promotional program to help up to 25 new companies in the real estate industry succeed. Show More Summary
How to jump on the video bandwagon
Are you still stuck in "E" rather than moving forward into "V"? If so, it's time to shift from email, E-cards, email newsletters, blogs, and autoresponders to the next generation of communication: vmail, vcards, vresponders, viewsletters, and vlogs.
Good times are back for ranch land brokers
For a while it seemed that anyone with a lot of money, from Hollywood stars to business moguls, wanted a piece -- make that a very large piece of -- America, and they came west looking to buy their own ranches. Many, following the lead of flamboyant media entrepreneur, Ted Turner, looked to acquire in Montana. Show More Summary
Glenn Kelman on Redfin’s site redesign [VIDEO]
Redfin launched a redesigned website this week and Inman News caught up with the Seattle-based brokerage's CEO, Glenn Kelman, to talk about its new features. The site's new design and features include more prominent Redfin branding, increased white space, larger property images on property detail pages and a new way for users to monitor homes they may want to tour.
Companies team up to offer small lenders REO asset management
Carrington Property Services has joined forces with financial services company LendingXpress to offer small lenders Carrington's asset management services to handle their inventory of bank-owned homes. San Antonio, Texas-based LendingXpress, a Southwest Business Corp. Show More Summary
NYC brokerage gets behind same-sex marriage
Anyone on Facebook in the last few days has likely seen the pink-and-red logo that many people are setting as their profile images this week in support of gay marriage, the subject of two cases the U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing. Show More Summary
Time to take the measure of the recovery
Trading everywhere has ceased for Passover, Good Friday, and Easter, but next week brings a flood of brand-new information for March, capped on Friday by employment data. Thus a good time to reflect. I do not recall a moment in which so many economic elements at the same time have been at points of inflection. Show More Summary
Uninsured losses on property theft and fraud are tax deductible
Fraud by building contractors is a distressingly common occurrence. How's this for a nightmare scenario: You agree to pay a contractor $400,000 to tear down part of your house and put in an addition. While the work is going on, you, your spouse, and five children stay with the wife's parents. Show More Summary