How long does it take your website to load on a mobile device? Google recently announced that starting in July, page speed from mobile devices will be a factor in its search rankings.Google says the update will likely only impact the slowest sites on the web. About 70 percent of websites take about 7 seconds to load on a mobile device, according to Google’s research from 2017. But users often expect it to load within 2 or 3 seconds.Use Goo
Cash sales accounted for 8 percent of new-home sales in the fourth quarter of 2017, matching a high that has not been seen since 2014, the National Association of Home Builders reports on its Eye on Housing blog. Cash sales make up an even larger share of existing-home sales—about 20 percent in December, according to the National Association of REALTORS®.Cash hardly makes up the bulk of financing options for buyers, however. The share of new h
The average credit score in the U.S. was 675 last year—the highest since 2012, according to Experian’s State of Credit: 2017 survey. More Americans fall on the higher end of the credit score spectrum, with 22 percent having “super-high” credit scores between 781 to 850 and 21 percent having “deep subprime” or very low credit scores below 600. Minnesota has the highest credit scores in the country, averaging 709.Mortgage debt was up
Hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans were granted a three-month moratorium on their mortgage payments following Hurricane Maria’s destruction last fall. But many of those agreements expire this month, and thousands of homeowners are scrambling to get extensions.Further, some Puerto Ricans who may have stopped making their mortgage payments are now learning that the moratorium was not automatic. They believed their mortgages were frozen, but t
Millennials make up a quarter of the nation’s population and are expected to have huge influence over real estate in the coming years. But though the millennial population increased 4.7 percent between 2010 and 2015, according to Census data, the growth has not occurred evenly across geographic areas. The cities with the highest share of millennials as of 2015 are: Provo-Orem, Utah: 30.4 percent Austin, Texas: 27.2 percent San Diego: 27 percent
The Super Bowl attracts hundreds of millions of dollars in local tourism and retail business for the city that hosts football’s annual mega-event, but does it have a long-term impact on home sales?Realtor.com® researchers discovered that in host cities, there tends to be at least a 50 percent jump in the number of listings near the stadium where the game is held leading up to the Super Bowl. However, the longer-term impact varied and was more
In FBI surveillance video, a young man of about 18 sits at his computer in his room. His mother, donned in a white bathrobe, approaches with a plate of cookies, sets it on his desk, and walks away as he continues to stare intensely at his computer screen. He’s not immersed in a video game. This man—perhaps a recent high school grad still living at home with his parents—is a typical hacker. And he's one of many who are increasingly disruptin
How to continue marketing yourself after the saleNEW YORK — A real estate agent’s job doesn’t end after the sale. Because referrals are so crucial to meeting new clients and expanding your base, a sale is just the beginning of a long-term relationship between agent and client. Caroline Bass“I believe [our success with referrals] is due to all of the practices put in place after closing,” Caroline Bass, a broker with The Corcoran Gro
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The healthy-home movement is gaining traction, and more builders are offering products to help owners maintain cleaner homes. KB Home announced this week that it will offer door hardware on its new homes that has antimicrobial product protection.KB will be using the door hardware from Kwikset, which manufacturers products with antimicrobial coating that prevents the growth of bacteria. The antimicrobial protection is to be for the lifetime of the
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