Category: Housing
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Homeownership Day 2021!
Join NAWRB as we co-host this year’s virtual Homeownership Day on January 23rd at 10am PST on Zoom! Homeownership Day will help you find your Happy Place, with timely information about owning property, inside tips on area nuances, all from experts who won’t pitch or pressure. We encourage anyone curious about real estate to attend…
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WHER Chat: Imperatives of the Commercial Real Estate Industry During COVID-19
In 2020 NAWRB WHER, Volume II: Real Estate, we explore how the real estate industry is navigating COVID-19 challenges and utilizing technology as a solution. The industry must accomplish crucial initiatives during the pandemic to ensure the commercial real estate sector’s sustainability and reliability in the future. 1. Earning the respect, trust, and loyalty…
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Interview with Meg Epstein Founder & CEO of CA South
Real estate developer Meg Epstein, Founder & CEO of CA South, who was born in California, but calls Nashville, Tennessee home, has over a decade of experience creating efficient, modern lifestyles for people in their homes and neighborhoods. Epstein founded CA South in 2015 with the idea of bringing to Nashville her sense of design…
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California’s Cooling Housing Market: Symptom of National Affordability Issue
The latest UCLA Anderson Forecast of California’s economic and housing market reports that housing will continue to cool into the year 2020 despite current job growth and strong economy. The economists attribute the weakening to falling home prices in major markets and decreased demand. Economists anticipate the demand for housing will decrease in California’s major…
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How Agents Can Better Serve Single-Women Homebuyers
Married couples might comprise the greatest share of homebuyers, but single women follow close behind, especially retired women over the age of 55, according to the Wall Street Journal. Gone are the days when women had to wait until marriage to buy a home; now, women are feeling more confident in creating their own sanctuary…
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Affordable Housing and HELOC Deductibility Under New Tax Laws
The new tax bill passed by Congress in December 2017, celebrated as the Trump Administration’s first major legislative victory, will have inadvertent consequences for potential homebuyers looking to buy homes in high-end markets, and for those with a home equity line of credit (HELOC). A decrease in home prices and caps on tax deductions, among…
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Women Leading the Way with Confidence
There are plenty woman-driven moments worth celebrating this year. From opportunities to highlight initiatives to advance in Olympic sports, corporate boardroom, red carpet Oscars, and Congress, women are leaving a stalwart trace of power, closing the year 2018 strong. In Congress, women comprise an impressive record-setting number of 108 held seats in, about 20.2 percent…
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Who is Freddie Mac Today?
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Often in the industry, when we think of the forty-eight-year-old Government Sponsored Entity The Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, otherwise known as Freddie Mac, we think: “I’d love to be an REO broker with them” or “I’d love to be in a vendor relationship with them.” However, as we discovered in our “Who is Freddie…