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MailChimp launches direct mail beta, admits print’s not dead

Mailchimp is in beta with a direct mailing feature. Using the company’s similar email template builder user interface, Mailchimp users can upload logos, custom imagery and messaging and easily control their budgets. Source: click here

Mortgage rates rise for 4th consecutive week

The 30-year-fixed mortgage rate averaged 4.65 percent this week, the highest since May, according to Freddie Mac’s most recent Primary Mortgage Market Survey. Source: click here

Hamptons agent serenades buyers with original country song about $2M property

To score a sale, real estate agents have been known to get creative — and, in the case of Douglas Elliman agent Telly Karoussos, even break out the guitar. After taking on a newly-built $1.995-million property in the Hamptons, Karoussos decided to liven up his listing with a short video of himself singing the house’s […]

5 reasons it’s tough to be a parent in real estate (and how to make it work)

From never having free time to figuring out how to prioritize your kids while making your clients feel like they’re No. 1 — being a real estate agent with kids isn’t easy. Here’s how agents are balancing their work and family lives. Source: click here

‘Alexa, get me seller leads’

HomeyPoints founders wanted to bridge old and new by connecting homeowners with an agent through Amazon Alexa voice technology and their voice app, Home Agent. Source: click here

Are your sellers ready for a buyer’s market?

How do you manage clients when the market suddenly develops into something they had not anticipated? Here are our top 10 recommendations for managing seller expectations when the market enters a correction. Source: click here

How real estate agents can keep themselves safe every day

Learn exactly what type of crime affects the industry and how real estate agents can arm themselves with the best information, resources, tools and apps to stay safe.  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 […]

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