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Buyer agency: a crucial historical shift in real estate

Housing Wire

Those too young to remember the wild west of real estate believe that real estate commissions have always been evenly split between seller’s and buyer’s agents, with each receiving a portion of the sale price. This paradigm shift significantly benefited all parties involved.

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Affordability boosts Indianapolis housing market 

Housing Wire

According to Zillow ’s annual predictions, Indianapolis will be the fourth-hottest real estate market of 2024, thanks to its solid economy, housing inventory, affordability and pent-up demand. The real estate market As of Jan. The top three spots in the ranking were Buffalo, New York, and Cincinnati and Columbus, Ohio.

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Navigating the Move: Logistics of a Smooth Home Selling Transition

Lamacchia Realty

NAVIGATING THE MOVE: LOGISTICS OF A SMOOTH HOME SELLING TRANSITION Selling your home comes with its unique set of challenges. The thought of packing up years of memories and coordinating the logistics can be daunting. This not only makes your home more appealing to potential buyers but also reduces the items you’ll need to move.

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Institutional investors now balk at buying homes in this market niche

Housing Wire

Institutional real estate investors — often mammoth operators with ties to Wall Street — gobbled up record amounts of inventory in almost every corner of the pandemic-induced fever dream that was the 2021 housing market, with one notable exception: distressed properties sold at foreclosure auction. Bulk Buyer Bonanza.

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Private Investors Seeking Retail Real Estate

McKissock

In recent years, the real estate industry has noticed some significant trends in the commercial and residential housing markets. As a real estate agent, you want to understand what this increase in commercial real estate purchases means and how it might impact your business practices. Somewhere in between?

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How to Unlock Potential with Real Estate Software for Investors

Listing Spark

In the fiercely competitive world of real estate investment, picking the right tools can be the difference between profit and losing money on a property. As digital innovation continues to reshape the landscape, a new potential savior has risen—real estate software for investors.

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Opportunities to improve the home-building process

Housing Wire

The real estate industry is in a serious time crunch to get new housing stock together. The build process was a logistical nightmare from start to finish. So many times I wondered to myself, “Why are site logistics and materials managed by someone in a truck writing on a notepad?” “Why Why are costs so unpredictable?”