According to Freddie Mac,, U.S. housing supply is 1.5 million shy of the units needed to restore balance to the housing market.
At the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting, Warren Buffett and his successor Greg Abel affirmed the value of real estate agents. This comes despite the recent $250 million settlement for HomeServices of America.
The newest BAMx feature—BAMx in a Box—goes out every week with a set of customizable templates for email, video, and social media, based on the week’s housing market and real estate news.
A recent ATTOM report revealed property taxes on single-family homes increased by 6.8% across the United States in 2023, totaling $363 billion, with significant variations in rates across different states, metro areas, and counties.
According to a new Realtor.com report, the best time to sell in 2024 is April 14–20. That’s about two months off from an earlier Zillow projection highlighting the first couple weeks of June. Byron Lazine addressed the latter in the March 20 Hot Sheet.
Spruce Point Capital, a New York-based investment managing firm, issued a strong sell report on Zillow Group, Inc., detailing five reasons for their belief in a long-term downside risk of 40% to 60% for Zillow stock values.
According to a new report from Redfin, real estate investors bought 26% of the low-priced U.S. homes that sold in Q4 2023—the highest share on record.
A new report from Redfin on homeownership shows empty nester boomers own twice as many large U.S. homes as millennials with children. As more of these empty nesters decide to downsize, agents have a unique opportunity to match-make.
A new Redfin report shows fewer American homeowners were locked into mortgage rates below 6% in Q3 2023 compared to a year before. And a recent Steve Harney Tweet highlights plausible reasons for the diminishing power of the lock-in effect as a deterrent.
Two respected analysts, Ivy Zelman and Meredith Whitney, spoke recently on the aging homeowner population and its impact on household growth and the overall U.S. housing market—an impact Whitney described as a “silver tsunami.”
This week, we bring you the top 20 clicked-on articles of 2023 in real estate news, agent marketing, agent tactics, etc., along with BAM’s biggest firsts of the year, including BAMx, our first in-person event (BAM Camp), and two new favorite podcasts.
Lawrence Yun, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors (NAR) reacts to Tuesday’s Census data release showing a surge in U.S. housing starts in November.
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