Daily Real Estate News

  • Beat the Competition in Buying Foreclosures - Are your buyers' bids continuing to fall short when trying to purchase a foreclosure? Low-cost REOs can attract multiple bids from investors and all-cash buyers. How can your buyer beat the competition?
  • More Housing Aid For Military Families - Hope Now expands its services to help military families who are at risk of foreclosure due to relocation for their jobs or other circumstances.
  • New Appraisal Tool for Solar-Powered Properties - Homes with photovoltaic (PV) systems have historically been hard to appraise if there weren't other PV systems nearby. PV Value is a new resource that assesses the worth of solar-power homes with market and lending data.
  • New York AG Sues MERS, Banks Over Foreclosures - Another state has joined the fight against using the Mortgage Electronic Registration System to process foreclosures.
  • Twitter, Facebook: For Business or Addiction? - Real estate professionals spend a lot of time on social networking sites to connect with clients. But could turn into an addiction? A new study suggests "yes."
  • Will the Real Estate Market Heat Up This Spring? - Spring will be here soon enough, and the season traditionally brings a pickup in buying and selling for the housing market. What will this spring hold?