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Get more real estate buyer leads in 2024

Housing Wire

In the ever-competitive real estate market, creating a consistent flow of real estate buyer leads is strategy for success. But beyond first-timers, we’ll show you how to attract real estate buyers of all kinds through a multi-tiered marketing approach that boosts both your visibility and credibility with potential buyers.

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Spring housing market gets more inventory

Housing Wire

This isn’t saying too much since 2023 had the lowest recorded level of new listings ever, but it’s still a plus in my book.

Inventory 495
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Transform your real estate career overnight in 8 easy steps

Housing Wire

One for first-time buyers, one for standard move-up and move-down buyers, one for higher-end executive types, and one with portfolio loans for the self-employed. Practice pricing property This is a key skill to practice regularly, not just when you have a new listing opportunity. Lather, rinse, repeat!

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Existing home sales data shows extent of housing inflation

Housing Wire

Existing home sales have more legs to go lower, especially now that new listing data is falling. A traditional primary resident seller is also a buyer, which means if they don’t list, they’re not just taking a potential home to be bought off the table — they’re taking a future sale off the books as well.

Inventory 439
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Housing Market Tracker: Mortgage rates and inventory fall together

Housing Wire

Active inventory fell 1,109, and new listing data made a lovely comeback week to week but was still noticeably down year over year. One piece of good news last week was that the new listing data, which saw a significant collapse two weeks ago, rebounded excellently to return to a usual trend.

Inventory 435
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Fed’s Beige Book shows recent moderation in mortgage rates propped up demand for homes

Housing Wire

Moderation in mortgage rates led to a pickup in demand for residential real estate, but limited inventories across the country hindered actual home sales , the Federal Reserve reported in its Beige Book survey of regional business contacts that was published Wednesday.

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My Forbes Column: Keeping Housing Market Results From The Public Is Never Justified: An Expansive View

Miller Samuel

I still have my old monthly MLS books and remember logging on to the MLS from one ancient (even then) terminal in the office - talk about delayed market information! When a potential home buyer looks at a listing on a public-facing web site, they look at DOM as one way to determine whether the listing price is reasonable.