You know those classic unsolicited emails from scammers posing as a Nigerian prince or a long-lost cousin? The ones with dreadful grammar, five different fonts, and three type colors? In some ways, we can consider those the good ol’ days of phishing scams, because they were quite easy to identify as false.Today, email scams are much more sophisticated, explained Katie Johnson, NAR’s general counsel and senior vice president of legal affairs
Police say they are continuing to get active new leads even seven years after a 27-year-old real estate agent was fatally shot at a model home in West Des Moines. Ashley Okland’s murder is still an open case, and no arrests have been made.“We just keep getting leads on it,” Lt. Anthony Giampolo with the West Des Moines Police Department told KCCI-8 News. “Maybe by reminding someone, maybe someone will say something that they know [can] he
When Bob Goldberg was named NAR CEO in 2017, it was with a pledge to move the association boldly into the future while honoring the successes of the past. Today, the association took a symbolic step, announcing the evolution of the iconic REALTOR® brand. The trademark “block R,” launched in 1973, will be transformed beginning this June into a three-dimensional logo.The new brand retains a comforting familiarity, employing the blue color pale
The Realtors Property Resource®, a real estate data and analytics platform, hit a record number of users in March, the National Association of REALTORS® announced. RPR is a subsidiary of NAR.The number of RPR users surged to a record 178,000, a 16 percent increase from a year ago. RPR webinars posted a 135 percent increase in registrations, and average attendance per webinar rose by 158 percent. The number of new accounts created in the first
he typical American household isn’t typical anymore. Nuclear families account for only 20 percent of buyers today, far outnumbered by singles living alone and childless couples. But many developers are still gearing single-family homes to the traditional family arrangement, says Chrysanthe Broikos, an architectural historian and curator at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C. It’s time to start thinking about homes and living spac
Real estate stands apart from other sectors of the economy because it is built on a model that encourages competing businesses to work together, said Ralph Holmen, former associate general counsel of the National Association of REALTORS®. He spoke April 5 in Washington, D.C., during a panel session on competition in the residential home sales industry.Ralph Holmen speaking on a panel addressing competition in the residential real estate industr
Ten cities are banding together in a new effort to create a place for city leaders to find solutions for improving affordability and reducing evictions. The effort, launched in late March, is called the PolicyLink All-in Cities Anti-Displacement Policy Network. Mayors, city council members, and senior city staff members from 10 U.S. cities are meeting next week to draft policy ideas and solutions.The cities hope that by teaming up they’ll be a
San Francisco homeowners and buyers are seeing some of the biggest price jumps in recent months. The median price for a single-family home in the city increased $100,000. Prices have reached an all-time high of $1.6 million, according to the Paragon Real Estate Group in San Francisco. For comparison, the median home price nationwide was $279,900 on March 1, according to realtor.com®.Home prices in San Francisco increased nearly 24 percent in the
Some home shoppers are feeling hopeless this spring and making competitive moves in order to get a home. They’re reportedly rushing to making offers without seeing homes first, bidding well above the asking price, or waiving inspections entirely to get sellers to find their offer the most alluring.“For home buyers, this is shaping up to be one of the most difficult years in recent memory,” says Ralph McLaughlin, chief economist of Veritas U
The median list price for homes nationwide this March have now topped a record high set in 2017. The median list price was $280,000, up 8 percent year over year in March, topping last July’s record of $275,000, realtor.com® reports.Not only are home prices higher but homes are also selling faster this year. Days on the market dropped 7 percent compared to last year, reaching a median of 63 days in March. There are also fewer homes for sale, wi
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