The best way to maximize your opportunities for real estate business in the last five income-producing months of 2023 is to get leads you don’t have to pay for upfront. Here are the best sources and how to make the most of them.
A new Realtor.com report highlights 10 U.S. cities with the largest annual increases in housing supply and the top 10 with the largest annual decreases.
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ATTOM released its U.S. Residential Property Mortgage Origination Report for Q1 2023, showing a 19% quarterly drop in the total number of residential loans—to its lowest point since 2000.
Both refinance and purchase mortgage originations fell nearly 20% from the previous quarter, with refis down 85% year over year.
Home equity lending also fell for the second quarter in a row.
Byron Lazine and Tom Toole break down the top five income-producing activities for real estate agents in answer to a comment on a previous episode of the Knowledge Brokers Podcast.
Home price gains slowed to the lowest rate on record according to Realtor.com’s May Housing Report. RDC’s records go back to 2016. Supply growth is still slowing and inventory levels are declining in many U.S. metros as fewer sellers enter the market.
According to a new analysis from Zillow and Thumbtack, the hidden costs of homeownership—from property taxes to essential maintenance—add up to an average ofn$14,155 a year, or $1,180 a month.
The Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) released its House Price Index (HPI®) for Q1 and March of 2023. House prices climbed 4.3% from Q1 2022 to Q1 2023. They also rose 0.5% compared to Q4 2022, while, on a monthly basis, they rose 0.6% from February.
Canada’s foreign housing tax is a 1% levy on “under-used” properties owned by foreign citizens. A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers has petitioned the Secretary of State to push for an exemption for U.S. citizens.
A new report from Redfin shows an almost 50% annual drop in the number of investor home purchases in Q1 2023, outpacing the 40.7% annual drop in overall home purchases.
A new Redfin report shows the share of Redfin.com users looking to relocate to different areas of the country fell 6% year over year—the biggest decline on record—compared to a 23% increase one year ago (April 2022). Within-metro moves fell 17% year over year.
A new Redfin report shows 42.9% of home sales during the three months ending April 30 involved seller concessions—just under February’s record high of 45.6% and nearly double the 25.5% from April 2022.
HubSpot released its list of the top 27 TikTok brands of 2023—and one of them is a real estate team. We look at whether TikTok is worth your time as a marketer, how to improve your chances of going viral, and how HEIDER Real Estate is dominating the platform.
