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...
New with Paragon 5, typing directly into a lookup field will open a drop down list that will automatically filter according to what is being typed into the field. Entered values can be easily removed by clicking the “x” in the value or by using the backspace button.
Users may simply progressively type...
Over the next two weeks, Supra will make exciting enhancements to our system. Many of these changes are a direct result of feedback from customers. Below is a list of the major new enhancements and fixes, by product.
SupraWEB Mobile
The mobile version of SupraWEB has been completely redesigned. It is now optimized for use on a mobile phone. The site can be seen at http://supraweb.suprakim.com. It provides...
A small percentage of keyholders have reported that eKEY is incompatible with version 7.1 of BlackBerry’s operating system. Supra is working to correct this issue and will release an eKEY upgrade as soon as possible. Until that time, we recommend that eKEY customers do not upgrade their BlackBerry to version 7.1.
In addition, we recommend that eKEY customers should delay obtaining a new Blackberry device if it runs version 7.1. Blackberry devices that may run version 7.1 include:...
The California Association of REALTORS® (C.A.R.) is distributing a public service announcement (PSA) to television and radio stations across California to warn consumers that they are at risk from scammers who offer phony mortgage modification schemes to troubled borrowers.
“We are encouraging every TV and radio station in California to air this important public service announcement,” said C.A.R. President LeFrancis Arnold. “Every week, we hear reports of unscrupulous con artists who...
By Tara-Nicholle Nelson, Inman News
By now, nearly five years after the real estate market meltdown began, you'd think virtually no housing consumer has been unaffected. To start, more than 5 million homes have been foreclosed and repossessed by lenders; 10 million homeowners are underwater (owing more on their homes than the homes are worth); and untold millions who want to offload their homes either can't or are trying -- and struggling -- to sell.
And while nearly everyone...
As part of the many benefits made available to members, C.A.R. offers its standard real estate forms in zipForm®, providing ease and convenience, and is a significant business tool for California REALTORS®. zipForm® is the exclusive software of C.A.R.’s standard forms.
It has recently come to C.A.R.’s attention that some members may be attempting to modify the pre-printed text of C.A.R.’s standard forms or upload blank or modified versions of C.A.R.’s standard forms into other...