Real estate news

• Transacting Business in the Age of Wire Fraud

  18-03-2018 18:07
  This month’s National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Power Broker Roundtable discusses fraud and security strategies.
  Moderator
  Christina Pappas, District Sales Manager, The Keyes Company, Miami, Fla.; Liaison for Large Firms & Industry Relations, NAR
  Panelists
  Michael Volin, Vice President-Legal, Title Resource Group (TRG), a Realogy Company, Camden, N.J.
  Joan Docktor, President, Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Fox & Roach REALTORS®, Devon, Pa.
  Mike Pappas, President/CEO,
  
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• Housing Starts Soften

  18-03-2018 18:06
  February’s home-building receded, with housing starts softening 7 percent and totaling 1.24 million, according to the latest data from the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Notably, single-family starts increased 2.9 percent to 902,000. Multifamily starts (five units or more) came in at 317,000.
  The decline is a departure from January, when groundbreaking soared some 10 percent.
  “Some multifamily pullback is expected after an unusually stro
  
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• Appraisals Better Check Out With Owner Perceptions

  18-03-2018 18:05
  Appraisals are better checking out with what owners perceive, just 0.53 percent below what was expected by homeowners, according to the February Quicken Loans National Home Price Perception Index (HPPI). The Quicken Loans National Home Value Index (HVI) shows appraised values rose 6.37 percent year-over-year.Appraisals continue to fall short of owner expectations; however, the difference between the two data points is shrinking. The Quicken Loans HPPI reported appraiser opinions of home values w
  
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