All Posts Tagged With: "national"
Real Estate: Could Realty Brokers Have Prevented the Mortgage Meltdown?
Part of the puzzle of the mortgage meltdown has been the role of real estate brokers. Could real estate brokers have done more to prevent home buyers from making inappropriate purchases or using loans which were inherently too risky?
The question has now been raised by the National Association of Exclusive Buyer Agents. NAEBA surveyed members [...]
Home Prices Up — Can This Be Real?
Bet you haven’t heard this in awhile — U.S. home prices rose. They rose for the month of April by .9 percent nationwide according to the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s monthly House Price Index (HPI).
Let’s not go crazy here, the index is 10.7 percent below its April 2007 peak. That said, in an environment with lousy news followed [...]
Mortgages, Foreclosures & The Disgrace of Journalism
It was long ago when I received a degree in journalism.
I wanted to study journalism because it gave me an opportunity to travel and to meet interesting people. I have been a correspondent on Capitol Hill and at the White House, I have lived on an offshore drilling rig in pursuit of a story, I [...]
National Real Estate & Mortgage Associations
Below is a quick and handy list of the most important real estate and mortgage associations in the U.S.
American Arbitration Association Appraisal Institute Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO) Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) Commercial Investment Real Estate Institute (CCIM)
Community Associations Institute (CAI) [...]
Real Estate Associations
• American Arbitration Association
• Appraisal Institute
• Association of Real Estate License Law Officials (ARELLO)
• Building [...]
26Aug2008 | Peter G. Miller | 0 comments | Continued
Is Brokerage Solidarity A Real Estate Reality?
Is the brokerage community some sort of monolith, a group-think brotherhood where all march in unison?
I wondered about such issues when I got email the other day which really peeked my interest. The letter went something like this:
I wonder if the FSBO listings on the MLS are treated differently by brokers at large, [...]
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