• How to Maximize Your Real Estate Business during National Homeownership Month
  Education. Guidance. Support. According to Don Perron, broker/owner of Realty Executives Select in Lafayette, La., these three simple words are the foundation toward helping clients achieve the

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• MarketVideos.com Provides Turnkey Video Content Solution for REALTORS®
  Launch of video creation portal enables agents to educate local buyers and sellers about local market activity, and provide video tips Promo code offers RISMedia readers free access until July

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• Property Values Take Flight: Home Prices Soar by over 20 Percent
  Some of the housing news being kicked around recently is astounding: Home prices soaring by 20 percent or more over the past 12 months? Multiple offers? Bidding

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• Katy Perry Buys Two Unlisted Homes in Hollywood Hills
  (MCT)—Singer Katy Perry has bought two adjacent homes in Hollywood Hills West for $11 million. The compound, if that’s how she intends to use the properties, has about four

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• 5 Ways to Make Your Real Estate Pinterest Page Work for You
  If you’ve considered jumping on the Pinterest bandwagon, wait no more. Although Facebook is still the leading social media network with 67 percent of American Internet

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• Want to Motivate Sellers? 850,000 Properties Bounce Back to Positive Equity
  Residential property analytic provider CoreLogic® recently released new analysis showing the market is making big moves, with 850,000 additional residential properties turning to positive equity during the

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• Zombie Nation: Which Real Estate Markets Are Rising from the Dead?
  The market is rebounding and the economy is strengthening; that’s how it would appear from the number of improving housing markets in June, which rose by five

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• Winning in the Luxury Market: Do You Have What It Takes?
  The highest end of the luxury real estate market has long been the domain of a very few, well-connected brokers. However, now that the wealthiest buyers are

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• Home Prices Rise by More Than 12 Percent; Where Are the Hot Markets?
  Following its predicted forecast, the housing recovery continues to push forward as we move from spring to summer. CoreLogic recently released its April CoreLogic HPI

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• Hollywood Pair List Long-Time Residence
  Ken Olin and Patricia Wettig have recently listed their Santa Monica, Calif. residence for $6.9 million dollars. Olin, an actor, director and producer (“Alias,” “Brothers & Sisters),” and Wettig, a three-time Emmy-winning actress

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• How to Master Social Media: The Do’s and Don’ts for Real Estate
  Social media isn’t going anywhere. Oh wait, yes it is… it’s going everywhere! Social media is one of the fastest and most cost effective ways to

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• Millennials Fueling New-Home Building Uptick
  As the housing recovery presses onward, a new generation of buyers is leading the way: millennials. Not only is this younger generation full of fresh enthusiasm for homeownership, but they have a fresh

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• 78 Percent of Key Ethnic Groups Consider Homeownership Biggest Indicator of Status
  Just-Released Survey Confirms Diversity Critical to Future Real Estate Success Over the past few weeks several major brokers including Mark Woodruff of Better Homes and Gardens

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• Real Estate Has Changed – Are You Changing with It? Top Brokers Tell Us How
  Yes, the real estate market is in recovery mode…but no, it’s not the same market it used to be. If you’re taking a

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• Real Estate Brokers Get Fierce in the Face of Inventory Challenges
  With the current shortage of inventory across the nation, many real estate brokers are facing a challenge they haven’t dealt with in a long time. In today’s

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• RISMedia’s Great Spaces: For Sale: Paradise Property, Walls Optional
  Want to move to paradise? Who could blame you! This Hawaiian estate, located on the big island of Hawaii, is called Laule’a, or “a place of peace and happiness.”

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• Sellers Calling the Shots, Bidding Wars Are Back – Survey Finds Buyers Are Going ‘Above and Beyond’ to Force Deals Through
  A survey conducted by Harris Interactive and released by Century 21 Real Estate LLC this week reveals

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• Home Sales Soar, Consumer Confidence Returns—Multiple Offers and Demand for Advice Powers REALTORS’® Value
  The more than 100 major real estate brokers who attended RISMedia’s Mid-Year Power Broker Forum earlier this month virtually all reported first quarter gains

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• John Legend Trades Spaces in NYC
  Last November, nine-time Grammy-winning singer-songwriter John Legend ditched his Bowery neighborhood apartment, making approximately $775,000 on the deal. Turns out, Legend sold to trade up to Little Italy, where he picked up

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• 6 Steps Brokers Must Take to Protect Their Role in the Real Estate Transaction
  For many brokers and

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• The ‘Mobile First’ Mentality
  We’ve all heard of the ‘mobile first’ mentality, persisted by quotes from tech giants

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• Extended Warranties Gain Momentum as Home Prices Increase
  As home prices begin to rebound – as much as

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• Questions to Answer before Your Next Redesign
  Why is it that website redesigns with the best intentions always

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• Carrington Real Estate Services REfueling Real Estate Careers
  Standing out in the real estate market can be tough.

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• The Future of Mortgages
  The current trend in real estate has been quite positive. For an extended period

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