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Trulia simplifies finding rentals near public transit stations

Some home hunters are more interested in access to public transit than landing in a specific neighborhood. With that in mind, Trulia has added a filter that lets renters zero in on listings based on their proximity to bus, rail or subway stations in a handful of markets. It works by overlaying transit stations onto a search map and surfacing all listings within a 15-minute […]

Black Knight Houston home price index for April 2016

Black Knight Financial Services released its April 2016 home price index data for Houston, based on summarized sales data — here’s how the metro measured up. Houston home price index value In April 2016, Black Knight showed the metro home price index value at $225,000, up 0.8 percent month-over-month and 4.5 percent year-over-year.   Texas home price […]

Podcast: How agent Mat Arruda went from 11 to 100 deals in two years

In 2014, Mat Arruda was a part-time bartender and a part-time agent, who was buying leads and losing valuable business opportunities by spreading himself over two jobs. He closed only 11 deals that first year. Then, he took the plunge and went full-time real estate. The following year was looking up, but Arruda realized he […]

What would Leigh Brown do?

Apparently, on social media, people have been posing the question “What would Leigh Brown do?” Well, let me tell y’all, what Leigh would do now is a lot different than what I would have done 16 years ago when I started in real estate. A lot of that evolution centers on facing problems head-on and […]

Special Report: Which real estate transaction tools work best?

Agents and brokers have no doubt that transaction tools have made their lives more efficient and that technology has enabled them to do more deals. However, they still have a long wish list of how the transaction process could be improved, and they would like to see their chosen software interact better with the software […]

Real estate video: How to find inspiration and use it

In part 1, we dealt with the question, “Do we really need to do video?” The conclusion was, “Yes, I think the ground has shifted, and we need to jump.” OK, so, my husband and I are willing to jump into video for our business, but in what direction? What’s the next step? How do […]

Juwai.com and BDX team up to bring Chinese buyers new home listings

Sometimes newer really is better. And many Chinese homebuyers would say that’s the case when perusing properties for sale in the U.S. In a recent survey by international real estate portal Juwai.com, Chinese would-be buyers of U.S. real estate ranked from one to 10 how strongly they would consider different types of homes. Respondents gave the […]

Daily market update: June 30, 2016

We’ll add more market news briefs throughout the day. Check back to read the latest. Ten-X Residential Real Estate Nowcast for June 2016: Existing home sales will fall between seasonally adjusted annual rates of 5.38 and 5.74 million, with a targeted number of 5.56 million. This is a slight 0.5 percent increase from May. It also […]

Sacramento housing boosted by Bay Area refugees

Sacramento housing statistics all point to the telltale signs of a strong seller’s market with a low supply of homes for sale countered by strong demand from local buyers and “Bay Area refugees” flush with cash. But there are some early indications that the ground below this fundamentally sound market foundation is slowly beginning to […]

Federated Realty streamlining sales with flat-rate commission

Redfin might have disrupted the real estate space by offering lower commissions for sellers, but Federated Realty of Washington D.C. wants to take that number even lower. Rather than applying a standard 3 percent selling commission, or even Redfin’s 1.5 percent, the lean brokerage operates on a $1,000 flat fee structure — no matter the price of the home. Federated collects […]

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