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Scary Home Problems That Could Raise the Dead

Foundation issues, mold problems, water damage – these are just a few home problems that can bring the strongest homeowner to his knees. While painting a room, replacing a broken light fixture and even minor electrical repair jobs may be within your purview, some jobs should be left to the pros. Foundation issues Perhaps the […]
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Consumer Trends Shaping the Future of Home Amenities

When selling a home, you need to understand the current consumer expectations and lifestyles. Appliance companies have tracked these for a while, and while some trends come and go, others remain popular for years. Recent consumer demands for energy efficiency and for connectivity via a smart phone are shaping the future of home amenities these […]
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For 69 Percent of Renters, Location Is a Decision-Maker

It may surprise some housing professionals to know that when it comes to renting, location—not price or size—seems to be the major decision-maker. This news comes from For Rent Media Solutions’ recently released white paper, Engaging Today’s Consumer: The Modern Apartment Search. After surveying more than 13,500 consumers, FRMS has gained key insights into the search […]
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Millennials and the New American Dream

A survey conducted exclusively among millennials as part of the Responsive Home project—a venture between BUILDER magazine and Pardee Homes to design, build and sell the ideal home for 21st century buyers – identifies the driving factors behind new age home buying habits and de-bunks millennial home buying myths. The results found that a modified, but familiar dream […]
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Top 20 Home Buying Destinations in the Americas

Whether looking for a place to retire, searching for vacation homes, or daydreaming about living “somewhere sunny and 75,” Americans are searching online for a home away from home. So where do Americans want to move? Not surprisingly, most Google searches for home listings are in laid-back tropical countries, but Canada is also in the […]
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Common Myths about Boosting Property Value

Determining items that add value to your client’s property can sometimes be vexing. They can spend a lot of money on improvements thinking they’ll add value to their home, but it won’t matter if the appraiser doesn’t agree. So how do you know which things add value? Jamie Chapman, a director of solution consulting at […]
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Helping Clients with Pets Find the Perfect Home

Pets are family. Ask anyone who has one. For this reason, you’ll add tremendous value to any home search you conduct when you stay informed and mindful of a few simple things on behalf of your clients with pets. Familiarize yourself with local ordinances. Every city has municipal codes that reference animals within their city […]
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New Home Construction Trailing Job Growth in Majority of Metro Areas

Despite positive improvements in the labor market in recent years, new home construction is currently insufficient in a majority of metro areas and is contributing to persistent housing shortages and unhealthy price growth in many markets, according to new research from the National Association of REALTORS®. NAR measured the volume of new-home construction relative to the […]
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Homeowners Overvalued Their Properties again in August

Homeowner estimates of their home’s value exceeded appraiser opinions by a wider margin than in July, making August the seventh consecutive month of an increasingly wider gap between opinions. This news is according to Quicken Loans’ recent report that appraiser opinions of home values were 2.65 percent lower than homeowner estimates in August, according to […]