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Chattanooga Realtors launch new public-facing MLS site
Chattanooga Realtors launch new public-facing MLS site
The Greater Chattanooga Association of Realtors has launched a consumer-facing residential property search website with tools designed to help local Realtors in southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia compete with national portals. GCAR’s ...
CRM vets back in the game with Kunversion
CRM vets back in the game with Kunversion
Lead generation and customer relationship management (CRM) platform Kunversion LLC has rolled out a new user dashboard that’s mobile-optimized, integrated with Google Apps, and interacts with leads via text, email and chat before a user has to ...
Commission Pitch now furnishing agent metrics to consumers
Commission Pitch now furnishing agent metrics to consumers
A Toronto-based startup is offering to help buyers and sellers in Ontario choose a real estate agent by furnishing metrics about agents’ prior transactions, including statistics on the number of homes sold, average days on market, average sales...
FHA policy shift leaves many condos ineligible for financing
FHA policy shift leaves many condos ineligible for financing
Is FHA intentionally targeting condominiums, trying to exclude hundreds or thousands of them around the country from qualifying for financing under its mortgage insurance program? FHA officials tell me absolutely not. But an abrupt new “no-toleranc...
Market Leader makes CRM tools available to mobile users
Market Leader makes CRM tools available to mobile users
Market Leader Inc. is making some capabilities of the Market Leader Professional and Business Suite available to users of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Market Leader Mobile, which will be offered at no additional cost to customers, &...
Imprev integrates Dropbox into marketing platform
Imprev integrates Dropbox into marketing platform
Imprev Inc., the Bellevue, Wash.-based developer of marketing tools for real estate brokers and agents, has integrated Dropbox into its marketing platform. Imprev’s Marketing Center is a mobile-optimized platform with single-property websites, ...
Update your marketing, or get left behind
Update your marketing, or get left behind
You update your clothing and your technology, but have you updated your marketing? If you’re still using the same old outdated tactics from five, 10 or even 20 years ago, it’s time to freshen up those old approaches with a ......
NAHREP: Immigration reform would boost housing
NAHREP: Immigration reform would boost housing
Proposed immigration reform could pump more than half a trillion dollars into the U.S. economy by paving the way for about 3 million Hispanics to buy homes over a five-year period, according to an estimate released by the National Association ......
Pinterest board sparks 2 showing requests in minutes
Pinterest board sparks 2 showing requests in minutes
Mike Gardner isn’t going to bother making a stand-alone site for one of his listings. All he needs for the luxury Malibu, Calif., mobile home, he said, is a Pinterest board. “My marketing campaign now is to pay for ads ......
NAR will consider giving realtor.com more leeway to compete with rivals
NAR will consider giving realtor.com more leeway to compete with rivals
WASHINGTON — The National Association of Realtors’ board of directors will hold a special meeting in July to explore whether to give realtor.com operator Move Inc. more freedom to compete with other websites like Zillow and Trulia. “...
NAR will allow MLSs to charge members for public-facing websites
NAR will allow MLSs to charge members for public-facing websites
WASHINGTON — The National Association of Realtors today adopted a policy that spells out “basic” services multiple listing services can charge all members for — including the operation and promotion of public-facing websites t...
NAR board may hold closed meeting to discuss realtor.com
NAR board may hold closed meeting to discuss realtor.com
WASHINGTON — The committee that sets the agenda for the National Association of Realtors’ board of directors approved a motion to recommend the board have a special meeting to discuss the trade group’s official website, realtor.com,...
NAR may delay action on public-facing MLS sites
NAR may delay action on public-facing MLS sites
WASHINGTON – A committee in charge of recommending policies to the National Association of Realtors’ board of directors has removed language from a controversial policy amendment that would have allowed multiple listing services to charge all...
Fed’s work is not done
Fed’s work is not done
Interest rates on long-term bonds and mortgages have stopped their May rise, a little above the halfway mark of the low and high for the year. The tilt seems to be upward, but the trading pattern has been chaotic and ......