Austin, Texas, ranked number one for the second year in a row as the top place to live in the United States, according to new rankings released by U.S. News & World Report. The magazine ranks the 125 largest metros based on affordability, employment prospects, and quality of life each year.“When deciding on a place to settle down, it’s important to understand that where a person lives can impact their well-being,” says Kim Castro, execu
About JohnI have over 20 years of experience selling, acquiring, listing and rehabbing both residential and commercial properties, as a licensed Realtor in California and as an investor and recent licensed Realtor in the state of Texas. In Southern California, for many years I owned and managed many properties throughout southern California and assisted both investors and residential home buyers acquire properties negotiating to the best possible
More generations are living under one roof together. A new analysis from the Pew Research Center shows that households with two or more adult generations hit an all-time high in 2016, using the most recent census data available for the analysis.The number of multigenerational households rose to an all-time high of 20 percent—or 64 million—of the U.S. population in 2016.The multigenerational household trend appears to be growing across nearly
The latest consumer sentiment index from Fannie Mae shows that home buyers don’t seem to be deterred by rising prices and rates, at least for now. The net share of survey respondents who said now is a good time to buy rose 10 percentage points in March month over month and is now at 32 percent, according to Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index, based on a poll of about 1,000 consumers.Overall, the index rose 2.5 percent in March to a re
If you want to get more prospects on your website this spring, you may want to take a closer look at your promotional efforts online. Forbes.com columnist Brad Keys recently offered a few of the best strategies for 2018 in getting more traffic to your website, including:1. Use hashtags.On your social media posts, make sure you include a proper hashtag to help promote it. “People have become increasingly picky about the content that they consum
The effect of natural disasters—hurricanes and wildfires—in 2017 appears to have a lessening impact on mortgage delinquencies at least on the national levels. Nearly 5 percent of mortgages were in some stage of delinquency (30 days or more past due) in January, a slight decline from a year ago, according to CoreLogic’s Loan Performance Insights Report, released Tuesday.But the areas hit by natural disasters late last year continue to face e
You know those classic unsolicited emails from scammers posing as a Nigerian prince or a long-lost cousin? The ones with dreadful grammar, five different fonts, and three type colors? In some ways, we can consider those the good ol’ days of phishing scams, because they were quite easy to identify as false.Today, email scams are much more sophisticated, explained Katie Johnson, NAR’s general counsel and senior vice president of legal affairs
Police say they are continuing to get active new leads even seven years after a 27-year-old real estate agent was fatally shot at a model home in West Des Moines. Ashley Okland’s murder is still an open case, and no arrests have been made.“We just keep getting leads on it,” Lt. Anthony Giampolo with the West Des Moines Police Department told KCCI-8 News. “Maybe by reminding someone, maybe someone will say something that they know [can] he
When Bob Goldberg was named NAR CEO in 2017, it was with a pledge to move the association boldly into the future while honoring the successes of the past. Today, the association took a symbolic step, announcing the evolution of the iconic REALTOR® brand. The trademark “block R,” launched in 1973, will be transformed beginning this June into a three-dimensional logo.The new brand retains a comforting familiarity, employing the blue color pale
The Realtors Property Resource®, a real estate data and analytics platform, hit a record number of users in March, the National Association of REALTORS® announced. RPR is a subsidiary of NAR.The number of RPR users surged to a record 178,000, a 16 percent increase from a year ago. RPR webinars posted a 135 percent increase in registrations, and average attendance per webinar rose by 158 percent. The number of new accounts created in the first
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