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NAR adds home improvement contractor’s app to Realtor benefits

Housing Wire

The National Association of Realtors (NAR) announced on Wednesday the addition of a home repair estimate app to its package of NAR Realtor Benefits for members. Founded in 2017, Curbio is based in Potomac, Md. The company also lists Comcast Ventures , Revolution and Camber Creek as investors.

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Opinion: Agencies are key to fixing housing affordability

Housing Wire

In the 2017 tax bill, caps on state and local tax (SALT) deductions and a boost in the standard deduction eviscerated the mortgage interest deduction, ending its use for all but the wealthiest homebuyers. Congress is gridlocked, so enactment of these initiatives is highly unlikely. But now a new threat is emerging on this front.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for March 2024

Lamacchia Realty

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for March 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Joselin Malkhasian is a REALTOR® working with both buyers and sellers in the Greater Boston Area.

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Minority homeownership gains ground, but disparities persist: NAR

Housing Wire

According to a new report from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) titled “A Snapshot of Race and Home Buying in America,” Asian and Hispanic Americans achieved historic heights in homeownership rates in 2022 of 63.3% The dream of homeownership is becoming more attainable for many Americans, with 10.5 and 51.1%, respectively.

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for January 2024

Lamacchia Realty

has released its “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for January 2024! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by the office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the month! Cyndi Deshaies received her real estate license in March 2017. Lamacchia Realty, Inc.

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“Enough is enough.” Redfin leaves NAR in wake of sexual harassment allegations

Housing Wire

Redfin will soon be requiring agents to cancel their National Association of Realtors membership. Since joining NAR in 2017, Redfin said that it has paid “more than $13 million in dues, in an effort to influence NAR to advocate for an open, technology-driven marketplace that would benefit consumers.”

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Lamacchia Realty Announces Top Producing REALTORS® for 2023

Lamacchia Realty

has released their “Top Producing REALTORS®,” for all of 2023! This program recognizes the Top 10 REALTORS® out of the over 500 agents in Lamacchia Realty by company and the Top 3 or 5 REALTORS® by office with the highest transaction numbers or sales for the year! Cyndi Deshaies received her real estate license in March 2017.