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• Norfolk County Register of Deeds William P. O'Donnell announces real estate results - Wicked Local Westwood

  10-09-2017 19:10
  Norfolk County Register of Deeds William P. O'Donnell announces real estate results
  Wicked Local Westwood
  With reduced sales and mortgage activity, the Norfolk County real estate market faced challenges in August 2017. “There are challenges taking place within the Norfolk County real estate market. The total number of real estate sales, both residential ...and more »
  
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• Confidence in Housing Doubles Back Toward All-Time High

  10-09-2017 19:07
  Confidence in housing doubled back in August toward the all-time high in the Fannie Mae Home Purchase Sentiment Index® (HPSI), with home sellers’ optimism rebounding from July. The HPSI overall posted 88.0 in August, 1.2 percentage points higher than the month prior and moving toward the Index’s record high, reached for the second time in June.
  The share of homebuyers surveyed for the Index who believe now is a good time to buy fell five percentage points to 18 percent, but the s
  
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• Foreign Buyers Snap Up U.S. Real Estate in Unprecedented Surge

  10-09-2017 19:06
  Foreign investments in U.S. real estate have surged nearly 50 percent as of late, according to the 2017 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR).
  The report shows that between April 2016 and March 2017, foreign buyers and recent immigrants purchased over $150 billion in residential property—$153 billion, to be exact. Marking a new survey high, this boost is a 49 percent increase from last year’s $102.6 bill
  
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• Realogy Bets on AI With OJO Virtual Assistant Partnership

  10-09-2017 19:03
  Realogy has entered into an agreement with OJO Labs, Inc., to provide OJO, its virtual assistant, to its brands’ real estate agents in select markets, the company recently announced. Participating brokerages from the Realogy Franchise Group and NRT will be determined in the next several months as the partnership moves from the planning phase to execution.
  “We are committed to a strategy of leveraging the power of Realogy to make our affiliated sales agents more productive and their b
  
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• Missing Texas real estate agent's body found, ex-husband charged with murder - ABC News

  10-09-2017 18:22
  Missing Texas real estate agent's body found, ex-husband charged with murder
  ABC News
  The body of a missing Houston real estate agent, who disappeared as Hurricane Harvey was barreling down on the area, has been found and her former husband has been charged with murder. Authorities discovered Crystal McDowell's body in a wooded ...
  Sheriff on vanished Texas realtor case says Hurricane Harvey is 'not the reason she's missing'ABC News
  Search for Houston-area realtor who vanished before Hurri
  
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