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Why aren’t borrowers happier with their mortgage providers?

After years of steady improvements, mortgage services appear to be backsliding, according to the latest study from J.D. Power. They haven’t stooped to the low bar set by United Airlines, which is now infamous for dragging a customer off one of its flights. But some mortgage customers say they are getting better service from their […]

Pacific Union International names Brent Thomson COO

Brent Thomson West Coast-based independent real estate firm Pacific Union International is expanding its leadership team with the appointment of Brent Thomson to the newly created position of COO, effective August 1. Thomson is currently president of the Pacific Union International Marin region, where mortgage industry veteran Ed Lynch will be coming in as senior […]

Can the rental housing landscape be improved?

The housing market has experienced multi-year gains in home price growth, which has made it harder for millennials, young families and those with lower incomes to jump into homebuying. Instead of purchasing lower priced fixer-uppers, would-be buyers have decided to continue renting in the midst of record-high apartment construction that has caused rental price growth to […]

GDP, inflation and politics: This week in markets

Events are moving fast, this account timestamped mid-afternoon Friday. The economic news is excellent. The other news is not. The first estimate of second-quarter GDP arrived this morning, plus 2.6 percent annualized. Q1 was revised down from 1.4 percent to 1.2 percent. Add the two quarter results together, divide by two, and we have 1.8 […]

Rental site Zumper launches Zumper Select, a rental brokerage service

What’s the real estate industry’s worst nightmare? That Zillow Group launches a real estate brokerage, of course. Zillow Group has vowed never to do this, but a new service from rental listing site Zumper serves as a reminder that the temptation to slide into the brokerage business can be tough to resist for some property-search sites. In […]

Where is it toughest to build new homes? BuildZoom analysis digs in

How do you quantify how difficult it is for developers to break ground (and finish) a new building in a given city? When Issi Romem, chief economist at BuildZoom (an online remodeling marketplace), was asked to help a reporter at The Wall Street Journal find the toughest places to build in the country, he realized that […]

Two young real estate stars on going big and taking risks

Breckenridge, Colorado, local Leah Canfield was going to represent the U.S. in the International Ski Federation Alpine World Cup. More than a mere pipe dream, this was her goal — her plan A. Over five knee operations later, her body finally cried foul, and the 25-year-old was faced with a new reality. Real estate soon […]

Redfin’s evolution: Read Inman’s 2014 in-depth profile

Editor’s note: This story originally published in November 2014. Redfin seeks to raise $100 million in an initial public offering Friday, July 28, 2017.  Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman said on “60 Minutes” in 2007, “Real estate, by far, is the most screwed-up industry in America.” Despite early rally cries like this from Redfin, in recent […]

Email sender poses as murdered real estate agent

In June, 76-year-old Jacksonville, Florida-based Realtor Mary Anne Rolnick was murdered inside her home. A month later, she was sending an email to an agent more than 1,000 miles away, saying she was an agent who had an interested buyer client. A photo of Mary Anne Rolnick from her former realtor.com profile One recipient of […]

Time management: Why a clean ‘no’ is better than an unsure ‘yes’

Feeling overwhelmed? Are there not enough hours in the day to accomplish what you need to get done? Take a closer look at how you use your time. In this video, Rachel Adams goes deeper into why embracing the clean “no” is better for you and the people in your life. Rachel Adams is an agent […]

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