News from CCAR, CAR, and NAR
Last month, at the Board of Directors’ meetings in Indian Wells, many REALTORS® expressed concern over a proposal by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, Dept. of Treasury, and HUD to sell large blocks of Fannie Mae- and Freddie Mac-owned foreclosed homes to large investors.
A pilot program is expected to be announced, and Southern California is an area being considered. While the program may be beneficial in some parts of the country where REO inventory is high, it would not be...
NEW YORK (CNNMoney) -- Buying a home is now more affordable than it has been in the last twenty years.
Thanks to continued declines in home prices and rock-bottom mortgage rates, the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Opportunity Index hit a record level of affordability.
According to the index, 75.9% of all new and existing homes sold during the three months ended Dec. 31 could have been comfortably purchased by...
An article from the Showing Suite blog
Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve seen QR codes pop up just about everywhere. But why all the hype?
First of all, a QR (quick response) code is a bar code that can be scanned with a smart phone application that will redirect you to view a webpage, images, video, or pretty much anything you want.
QR codes are especially ideal for real estate marketing products because they are...
You're sitting next to your client, you don't have a printer, but you do have your iPad. The latest enhancement to zipForm® Mobile Web Edition is the ability to sign documents with your fingers or capacitive stylus directly on the mobile device.
With mobile integration to zipVault®, your free storage solution for C.A.R., you can also sign non-digitized zipForm® 6 documents such as local disclosures or broker forms. After execution, all completed documents will automatically sync to...