NAR weighs rules for mobile IDX listings
WASHINGTON -- A National Association of Realtors advisory committee that helps set policies for multiple listing services nationwide is recommending changes that would give...
Trulia recruits brokerage exec to lead industry relations team
After overhauling its offerings for brokers and agents and beefing up its industry relations team, real estate search company Trulia has recruited Matt Dollinger from innovative...
Banks must take risks
The few spatters of economic data this week did not change the plod-along U.S. outlook. Meanwhile the priority story (Europe) was obscured by the media's demented focus on the...
Bill would stop bulk REO sales in California
California Rep. Gary Miller -- who's getting major backing from the National Association of Realtors as he runs for reelection to Congress in a new district -- has introduced a...
Neighborhood social networking site taking off
David Milliron lives in Avondale Estates, a small, historic city about seven miles east of downtown Atlanta. Never heard of it? Well, you should have, because Avondale Estates is...
Your time is worth nothing until you close
How much is your time worth? It's a common real estate industry debate between brokers and agents and daily water-cooler fodder. Agents are forever doing the math --...
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Rulemaking for social media postponed again - Bill would stop bulk REO sales in California
NAR backing sponsor Gary Miller's reelection bid - Banks must take risks
Modern economies cannot grow without credit - Trulia recruits brokerage exec to lead ind...
Matt Dollinger to help listing portal strengthen ties to MLSs, brokers, agents - NAR flexes political muscle
Rally in nation's capital draws 15,000 - Are big brokers delivering on tech, traini...
Realtor Notebook - Mortgage rates head deeper into record ter...
Thirst for bonds shows growing fear that recovery is in jeopardy - 7 fundamentals for growing your real estat...
Improvise, and your results are hit or miss at best - Title company offers rate comparison calcu...
Minnesota-based Title-1 operates independently - Foreclosure filings surge in judicial fore...
RealtyTrac: Short sales on track to overtake REOs in California, Arizona - Prudential California Realty accepting bid...
Firm may get both sides of deal when buyer is unrepresented - Your time is worth nothing until you close
Make every action contribute to your bottom line, and beneficial to your client - Zillow program aims to improve accuracy of...
Brokers, MLSs get more control over display of property data - 6 tools for recruiting Gen Y agents
ERA study looks at demographic challenges facing real estate brokerage industry - Mega-brokers take smaller slice of real es...
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Conversation leads to conversion.
As our social networks grow, it becomes difficult to find truly meaningful conversations online.
Some of the best interactions are occurring outside of Facebook right now. You just aren’t having any of them.
Powerful, smaller social media platforms have emerged, garnering millions of users quickly. Few of those users, however, are leaving comments the way they do so freely on Facebook.
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Cartavi’s document sharing solution focuses on the interaction of documents – making it more than just a cloud-based storage application.
Cartavi stopped by Inman News’ Demo Day back in April.
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In Illinois, incentives to buyer's agents must go through broker
Re: 'Incentives to buyer's agents raise steering concerns' (May 11)
Dear Editor:
Interesting article on the offering of the Mercedes directly to the buyer's agent as a reward. This is illegal in Illinois and I suspect many other states.
... more...Appraisals are lagging behind the market
We agree with all that is being said regarding the changing markets -- lower inventories, closer-to-list-price negotiations, and the potential for rising prices. But the issue we now encounter are the appraisals are lagging behind the market; therefore, they do not match the current market values or the sold price.
Challenges of the appraisals are met with disdain and then disapproval.
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NAR weighs rules for mobile IDX listings 
WASHINGTON -- A National Association of Realtors advisory committee that helps set policies for multiple listing services nationwide is recommending changes that would give brokers and agents more freedom to push shared listings data to mobile devices.
... more...Neighborhood social networking site taking off
David Milliron lives in Avondale Estates, a small, historic city about seven miles east of downtown Atlanta.
Never heard of it? Well, you should have, because Avondale Estates is home to the very first Waffle House, a restaurant chain very important to early morning Southern society, where folks meet up for hot waffles, coffee and who knows what else all the while exchanging gossip and important local news.
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Aptly described as "'Tetris'-inspired" by the guys at Curbed Seattle, this modernist home was built in 1985 and fronts 56 feet of private beach on Sammamish's Beaver Lake. Listed for sale by the architect and current resident Nick Fisher, the home has two bedrooms and 1.5 bathrooms and more than 1,290 square feet of interiors that look just as immaculate as you'd expect from the glassy and minimalist... more...
