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• Land Home Financial brings on new area manager for Bay Area, SoCal and Nevada

  30-01-2018 22:57
  
  Land Home Financial Services has announced the addition of Joe Mckone as its new area manager for the Bay Area, Southern California, and Nevada. McKone, a 20-year mortgage industry veteran, joins Land Home after serving as an EVP for First California Mortgage Company.
  
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• The Truth About Technology and the Role of a Real Estate Agent

  30-01-2018 22:08
  NAR PULSE—In the last 15 years, the “golden age of consumerism” has ushered in unprecedented access to real estate data, yet the perceived value of working with a REALTOR® has skyrocketed. Why and how? Find out here!
  2018 NAR Member Orientation Video and Materials Available OnlineNAR’s 2018 New Member Orientation Materials are now available online for use by brokerages. Use these resources and tools to welcome new agents into the REALTOR® family. Share the updated
  
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• Creating Personalized Service to Attract Loyal Clients

  30-01-2018 22:06
  In the following interview, Jennifer Shemwell, president of Phyllis Browning Company, a member of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® (LeadingRE) in San Antonio, Texas, discusses the brokerage’s competitive differentiation, culture and more.
  Region Served: San Antonio, TexasYears in Real Estate: 24Number of Offices: 6Number of Agents: 200Favorite Part of Your Job: I love to train our agents to be successful and to be the best they can be.One Thing People Don’t Know About
  
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• Homeownership Rate Makes Marginal Progress

  30-01-2018 22:05
  2017 closed with the homeownership rate improving, but at a slight standstill: 64.2 percent, according to the U.S. Census Bureau’s Quarterly Housing Vacancies and Homeownership Report. The figure is marginal progress from the third quarter of the year, when the rate registered 63.9 percent. The rate was 63.7 percent at the end of 2016.
  One statistic is telling. Owner households, or homes owned by their residents, comprised 56.4 percent of all homes occupied in the fourth quarter of 2017, t
  
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• Real Estate: Taking Stock of Medical Office Real Estate - Columbia Business Times

  30-01-2018 20:16
  Columbia Business Times
  Real Estate: Taking Stock of Medical Office Real Estate
  Columbia Business Times
  Medical office real estate has emerged as a significant and robust subclass of office real estate. (The category can be very broad and include everything from a hospital facility to a chiropractic office.) There's been exponential growth in this market ...
  
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• Wells Fargo hires former New York Fed exec to improve regulator relations

  30-01-2018 19:18
  
  It’s probably safe to say that Wells Fargo has had a rough relationship with its various regulators over the past few years. Now, as part of an effort to improve its relationships with regulators, Wells Fargo is naming a new head of regulatory relations. Sarah Dahlgren, a long-time executive at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York will fill the role at Wells Fargo.
  
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• Seattle and Las Vegas Are the Hottest Real Estate Markets in the Country Right Now - Fortune

  30-01-2018 17:53
  Fortune
  Seattle and Las Vegas Are the Hottest Real Estate Markets in the Country Right Now
  Fortune
  Looking to buy a home in Seattle or Las Vegas? You might want to hurry, as prices are rising fast—and showing no signs of slowing down. The just-released Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller Home Price Index shows home prices in most major markets are ...and more »
  
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• Changes In Commercial Real Estate Are Rewriting Landlord Rules For The 21st Century - Forbes

  30-01-2018 14:31
  Forbes
  Changes In Commercial Real Estate Are Rewriting Landlord Rules For The 21st Century
  Forbes
  The digital transformation is more than just another buzzword. As the millennial workforce prepares for middle age, Gen Z is now also entering the workplace and continuing the drive for better technology and mobility. The future of commercial real ...
  
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• Wanda Puts Two US Real Estate Projects Up for Sale - Bloomberg

  30-01-2018 08:51
  Bloomberg
  Wanda Puts Two US Real Estate Projects Up for Sale
  Bloomberg
  Chinese billionaire Wang Jianlin's Dalian Wanda Group Co. has put its last two overseas property developments up for sale, according to people familiar with the matter, in the latest unwinding of a decade-long overseas buying spree that put it in the ...and more »
  
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