Help potential buyers envision themselves living in their new home Listing agents strive to help potential buyers make a connection with the home from the moment they pull up to the curb. One way to prompt this feeling is through staging. Staging sets the mood...

Housing experts and economists put these two contenders at the top of the list for their location and real estate markets   Tough luck, New York. Amazon is likely to pick Atlanta or northern Virginia for its second headquarters, according to a survey of housing...

Proactive is the buzzword when addressing both cosmetic and mechanical components of a listing   It’s that time of year again, the 2018 selling season is upon us. If you have clients getting ready to put their home on the market, the task list to prep for the...

10-year Treasury note has nearly doubled in 18 months. If it breaks 3%, expect mortgages to hit 5%.   We are likely to be in a sustained rise in interest rates (sometimes just writing that sentence means that the rise has stopped for good), but even a sustained...

The uptick in mortgage rates will make the spring homebuying season especially hard for first-time buyers   Mortgage interest rates have increased for the seventh consecutive week, according to Freddie Mac’s latest Primary Mortgage Market Survey. The 30-year...

                        Trade group addresses worries over real estate competition   The National Association of Realtors’ 2008 settlement and consent decree with the U.S. Department of Justice, which mandates that the trade group not discriminate against brokers...

Complex designed specifically for home sharing will offer guests keyless access The first-ever Airbnb-branded apartments will come equipped with smart lock access. On Thursday, Latch, a smart lock technology startup that’s developed an access system for multifamily...