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Glenn Kelman on Redfin's site redesign [VIDEO]
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Redfin launched a redesigned website this week and Inman News caught up with the Seattle-based brokerage's CEO, Glenn Kelman, to talk about its new features. The site's new design and features include more prominent Redfin branding, increased white ...

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Companies team up to offer small lenders REO asset management
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Carrington Property Services has joined forces with financial services company LendingXpress to offer small lenders Carrington's asset management services to handle their inventory of bank-owned homes. San Antonio, Texas-based LendingXpress, ...

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NYC brokerage gets behind same-sex marriage
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NYC brokerage gets behind same-sex marriage. Bond New York incorporates cause into firm's logo. By Inman News, Friday, March 29, 2013. Inman News®. Bond New York's logo incorporating the Human Rights Campaign colors and design in support of ...

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Coldwell Banker recognized for training platform
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Coldwell Banker Real Estate LLC was named one of the top 10 companies "for ongoing excellence in learning and development" by Chief Learning Officer magazine. The franchisor said it is was the only real estate company to make the "2013 LearningElite" ...

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Fannie Mae sees housing upturn as 'intact'
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Despite some bumps in the road, the housing upturn is "intact" and rising home prices are expected to boost household net worth and offset fiscal tightening, according to a monthly economic outlook released today by economists at Fannie Mae.

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Interest in building, remodeling homes picks up
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A majority of homeowners believe now is a good time to buy or remodel homes, and more of them feel comfortable beginning planned renovations than they did last year, according to a survey commissioned by home-remodeling website Houzz.

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More homes entering foreclosure pipeline
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The number of homes entering the foreclosure pipeline picked up after last year's national mortgage settlement, a new report by foreclosure data aggregator RealtyTrac suggests. RealtyTrac's first-ever U.S. Foreclosure Inventory Analysis showed nearly 1 ...

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Mortgage rates edge up
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Mortgage rates edged up this week as investors shook off worries about the European debt crisis and remained optimistic about the U.S. economy and prospects for growth. Rates on 30-year fixed-rate mortgages averaged 3.57 percent with an average 0.8 ...

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Number of homes in foreclosure down 21 percent in February
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The number of homes in some stage of the foreclosure process fell 21 percent in February from a year ago, to 1.2 million, according to data aggregator CoreLogic. February saw 54,000 homes lost to foreclosure, down 7 percent from January and 19 percent ...

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'Wikipedia of real estate' taking shape
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As listing sites ramp up efforts to augment their statistical data with local color, a real estate developer may soon launch a new website devoted solely to delivering qualitative, community information to homeowners, buyers and sellers. WikiRealty ...

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Househappy launches Pinterest-like home search platform
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Portland, Ore.-based Househappy Inc. is betting that photos alone can drive home search with a new photo-centric site sporting a Pinterest-like layout and associated social network. Househappy.org, designed for brokers and home buyers and sellers, ...

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Fannie Mae REO specialist allegedly asked for kickbacks
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A former Fannie Mae sales associate who allegedly promised to provide listings to a real estate broker from the mortgage giant's REO inventory in exchange for kickbacks has been indicted on three counts of wire fraud. Armando Granillo, 44, worked out ...

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Pending home sales slip in February
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Pending sales of existing homes dipped 0.4 percent from January to February, but remained at their second-highest level in nearly three years, according to an index maintained by the National Association of Realtors. NAR's Pending Home Sales Index, ...

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Top Agent Network to complete Boston rollout
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A social network designed to help top-producing agents share information about pre-MLS and non-MLS listings announced today that it will conclude its Boston-area rollout by launching chapters in the North Shore, South Shore and Cape and The Islands on ...

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NAR announces inaugural group for 'tech accelerator'
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Editor's note: This story has been updated to note that the REach program now has more than 140 mentors. A tech incubator launched by the National Association of Realtors has selected an inaugural group of six companies that will receive mentoring ...

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Hispanic buyers could kick recovery into high gear
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Hispanics accounted for more than half of new owner-occupied households last year and have the purchasing power "to push the U.S. housing recovery into high gear," according to an annual report from the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate ...

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Shadow inventory down 28% from peak
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The "shadow inventory" of distressed homes likely to hit the market fell 18 percent in January from a year ago, to 2.2 million homes - about nine months of supply at the current rate of sales, according to a new report by loan data aggregator CoreLogic.

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Zillow adds Spanish support to rental app
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Editor's note: A previous version of this story stated that Spanish support for the app was focused on its voice-recognition capability. The language update was for the whole app. Zillow added Spanish support to its Android home-rental app today ...

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New-home sales climb in February from a year ago
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Sales of new single-family homes showed a 12.3 percent year-over-year jump in February from a year ago, according to a monthly report from the U.S. Census Bureau released today. February's seasonally-adjusted annual rate of 411,000 new-home sales ...

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Foreclosure inventory down 19.6% from year ago
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Foreclosure pre-sale inventory was down 19.6 percent in February from a year ago, to 1.7 million homes, according to the latest "First Look" Mortgage Report from Lender Processing Services. The mortgage delinquency rate fell to 6.8 percent in February, ...

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