WASHINGTON (March 29, 2023) – Pending home sales grew in February for the third consecutive month, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Three US regions posted monthly gains, while the West declined. All four regions saw year-over-year decreases in transactions. The Pending Home Sales Index (PHSI)* — a forward-looking indicator of home sales based…
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Home sellers go on strike
The US housing market has entered into its peak annual spring season where buyers and sellers alike get serious about their moves. Only this year there’s something off: Not a lot of homes are going up for sale. According to Realtor.com (see chart below), only 349,284 US homes were listed for sale in March 2023….
Head of Sask. realtors association calls mortgage fraud case ‘surprising’
Guerette said a significant number of people are involved in every transaction, including the banks, realtors, appraisers and lawyers. “It’s a bit surprising that it did take this long to have such an unacceptable situation brought to light,” she said. There are two aspects of being a licensed realtor in Saskatchewan, Guerette explained. First, a…
Realtor showed toughness, humility in her business
Mar. 14—”There was an old woman who lived a shoe,” the children’s nursery rhyme goes. And a large-scale, and quite-detailed, version of it — the shoe — lived at Pat Stewart’s house for a time when her kids were small. “Everybody loved it,” Jeff Stewart said of the creation rendered by the hand of his…
Commercial Real Estate Alliance donates $10,000 to Habitat
Matt Fenske, 2023 CREA vice president, left, Renee Snyder, president and CEO of Habitat for Humanity Sarasota, and William Wilson, 2023 CREA president, with the Habitat check. the Commercial Real Estate Alliance of the Realtors Association of Sarasota and Manatees raised more than $10,000 for Habitat for Humanity Sarasota at its annual golf tournament last…
Condo storage locker at center of BC small claims dispute
A BC woman whose storage locker was reassigned nine years after she bought her condo has lost her bid to sue the realtor for $5,000 for negligence and misrepresentation. The province’s Civil Resolution Tribunal decision on the dispute was posted online Wednesday, outlining the reasons why the owner’s claim was dismissed. Cindy Cheung purchased the…
This Arizona Realtor’s HOA Just Got Served A Big, Tall Glass Of Petty Revenge
HOAs, or homeowners associations, are supposed to protect a neighborhood’s property values by maintaining agreed-upon community standards. But unfortunately, some HOAs spiral into control freak behavior, causing residents endless drama and annoyances. Well, recently, Arizona-based Realtors Jared and Tim Deluca found themselves on the receiving end of some HOA nonsense, all because of a pride…