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Realtor.com adopts 'spokesdog'
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Realtor.com will soon allow Realtors to use photos of a new "spokesdog," Otis, to market their pet-friendly rental listings on the portal. Otis became an Internet sensation after photos from a rental listing that featured stealth appearances by the ...

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Homes.com and ERA renew tech and marketing partnership
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Franchisor ERA Real Estate says it's renewed an agreement with Homes.com that allows consumers to search ERA.com for Internet Data Exchange (IDX) listings pulled from markets where the firm has affiliated brokerages. The new agreement comes with a ...

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Century 21 recognized for Facebook ad campaign
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An ad campaign launched last fall by franchisor Century 21 Real Estate LLC inside the Facebook game SimCity Social has been recognized as a "Platinum Winner" in the AVA Awards contest, administered by the Association of Marketing and Communication ...

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AMC debuts CFPB compliance program for lenders
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National appraisal management company CoesterVMS has rolled out an online program that allows lenders to comply with regulations set by a federal agency in regards to third-party service providers lenders engage. The Consumer Financial Protection ...

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Canadian Realtors partner with DocuSign
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The Canadian Real Estate Association has signed an agreement with DocuSign giving the association's more than 105,000 members access to the e-signature service. CREA partnered with real estate technology company Instanet Solutions in January to ...

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Canadian home sales edge up in March
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Home sales in Canada rose modestly from February to March, but remained far below levels seen a year ago before regulators tightened lending rules. Seasonally adjusted national home sales rose 2.4 percent from February to March, but were down 15.3 ...

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International reach a must to land high-end listings
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International reach a must to land high-end listings. Sellers expect listings will be indexed by international search engines in local languages. By Inman News, Monday, April 15, 2013. Inman News®. <a href="http://www.shutterstock.com/pic Languages ...

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Mortgage rules may put chill on Canada's spring buying season
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Home sales in the metro Montreal market fell 18 percent during the first quarter compared to a year ago, the latest evidence that new mortgage rules introduced by Canadian regulators last summer have cooled markets there. A database maintained by the ...

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'The Jills' win Matt Damon listing
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Jill Hertzberg and Jill Eber -- the Coldwell Banker Previews International real estate team known as "The Jills" -- have landed another high profile listing: actor Matt Damon's 12,700-square-foot mansion in Miami Beach, listed at $20 million. The South ...

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Redfin: Feels like a bubble, but it's not
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An informal Inman News survey of agents around the country shows many real estate professionals are experiencing market conditions that, at least on a surface level, resemble those of the housing bubble. An analysis released today by Seattle-based ...

Housing bubble unlikely: report
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But an analysis released today by Seattle-based brokerage Redfin highlighted key differences between today's market and the last housing bubble, concluding that current market dynamics make it unlikely that home prices are overheating. Rising home ...

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Echoes of the bubble in agents' descriptions of markets
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"Some of my investors in Phoenix are holding back because of that fear," said Laura Couch Strebler, in a comment on the Inman News Facebook page. "My OO (owner-occupied) buyers who need to buy are plowing ahead and are frustrated because of lack ...

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PropertyInfo and zipLogix join forces
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Realtor-owned zipLogix and Stewart Title Co. subsidiary PropertyInfo Corp. have signed an agreement to create a platform that will integrate zipLogix's electronic forms software with PropertyInfo's transaction management system. ZipLogix' zipForm ...

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Will rising mortgage rates undermine home prices?
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Thanks to freakishly low interest rates, many homeowners with mortgages are able to make their monthly house payments using a much smaller percentage of their income than has been the historical norm, an analysis by Zillow shows. But home prices are ...

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Viewbix out to boost videos' lead-gen mojo
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Video is often touted as an essential marketing tool for real estate agents. But while it may help put an agent's new media savvy on display, some are skeptical about the medium's ability to convert viewers into clients. Launched in April of 2011 ...

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Drunk people: best focus group ever?
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If you're an app developer, you may want to stop wasting your time with focus groups and get wasted in a bar instead. Dave Lieb, the founder of file-sharing app Bump, recently told Fast Company that one of the most effective testing methods the company ...

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Mortgage rates fall again after weak jobs report
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Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.43 percent with an average 0.8 point for the week ending April 11, down from 3.54 percent last week and 3.88 percent a year ago, Freddie Mac said in releasing the results of its latest Primary Mortgage ...

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Foreclosure timelines reach record lengths
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Foreclosure timelines are growing more bloated, largely due to sustained government intervention in the housing market, according to RealtyTrac's March U.S. Foreclosure Market Report. At the same time, foreclosure activity continues to subside ...

Federal budget projects $943 million bailout for FHA
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The Federal Housing Administration will likely need a $943 million taxpayer bailout in the next fiscal year to cover losses stemming from defaults on loans made both during and after the housing boom, according to a 2014 budget proposal released by the ...

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Inventory, prices post gains as spring buying season gets underway
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Listing inventory and median list prices posted gains from February to March, with inventory rising 2.4 percent and prices 0.5 percent, according to the latest numbers from realtor.com. As the spring buying season got underway, the median age of ...

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