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We didn’t let it break us: A personal look back at the Great Recession

The housing market plummeted in 2008, dragging down with it real estate jobs and the financial stability of so many involved in this industry. Countless real estate professionals and homeowners were affected, and memories of this event will live on for years to come. Here are some of mine. Source: click here

Blend wants to make applying for a mortgage smoother with AI

The Peter Thiel-backed San Francisco-startup’s new product for lenders, Blend Intelligence, automatically requests documents from borrowers and runs health checks on them. Source: click here

Monthly home maintenance costs rise over 10%

Home maintenance project spending has seen a 10.75 percent year-over-year increase from August 2017 to August 2018, according to a report from Texas-based property history and condition data provider BuildFax on Tuesday. These findings are included in its August Housing Health Report, though BuildFax declined to release specific values of how much homeowners are spending on […]

How real estate can help the survivors of Hurricane Florence

This story has been reposted with permission from Rob Hahn and Sunny Lake Hahn. Rob and I were supposed to be in Wilmington, North Carolina today to present some new sessions at the State Realtor Conference, Xchange. We watched as Hurricane Florence gained strength across the Atlantic with estimated landfall near Wilmington, and quickly realized that […]

San Antonio Board of Realtors names new CEO after abruptly firing previous leader

The San Antonio Board of Realtors has a new leader, having named Gilbert S. Gonzalez CEO two weeks after Shane Johnson got the boot. Source: click here

Motto Mortgage adds franchise in Northwest US

Motto Mortgage, a mortgage brokerage franchise spun off from RE/MAX, is expanding to the Seattle metropolitan region with a new office in the city of Edmonds, Washington, according to an announcement Tuesday. Local real estate agents Leonard Schiffman and Victor Lopez will oversee the new franchise and Tom MacArthur, another Edmonds resident, will serve as the […]

A Rockefeller heiress’s former estate lists for $30M

An estate fit for American royalty — or more precisely, an heiress to the Rockefeller family fortune — has just hit the market for $30 million. Photo Credit: Giovanni D. Puglisi Once the home of oil industry magnate John D. Rockefeller’s granddaughter Abby, the luxurious Tudor-style estate is hidden from prying eyes by a half-mile-long […]

Luxury Connect: Michael Dreyfus on How to Scale Your Business

This summer we’re looking at the state of the luxury agent & broker in today’s increasingly complex real estate market. In October, we’ll gather in Beverly Hills at Luxury Connect to share best practices, network, and create blueprint for the luxury agent/broker of tomorrow. Don’t miss it. Michael Dreyfus, an agent with Golden Gate Sotheby’s International Realty, has […]

As rent soars, southern half of United States hit hardest

Led by significant price hikes in Orlando, Las Vegas and Tucson, Arizona, the cost of renting a single-family home grew by 3 percent to an average of $1,412 a month in July,  according to CoreLogic’s latest Single-Family Rent Index (SFRI). Nationwide, median rent grew by 0.3 percentage points year-over-year, with “southern” enclaves, as CoreLogic characterizes cities […]

9 tips for filing insurance claims after a catastrophe

Whether it’s a hurricane like Florence, a tropical storm like Lane or a flood, tornado, earthquake or fire, it can take years to resolve a major insurance claim and restore your property. In 1994, I sustained over $100,000 of damage to my house from the Northridge earthquake. My insurance company gave me the run around […]

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