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Chattanooga Realtors launch new public-facing MLS site
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The Greater Chattanooga Association of Realtors has launched a consumer-facing residential property search website with tools designed to help local Realtors in southeast Tennessee and northwest Georgia compete with national portals. GCAR's “Spring” ...

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Commission Pitch now furnishing agent metrics to consumers
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A Toronto-based startup is offering to help buyers and sellers in Ontario choose a real estate agent by furnishing metrics about agents' prior transactions, including statistics on the number of homes sold, average days on market, average sales price ...

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FHA policy shift leaves many condos ineligible for financing
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Is FHA intentionally targeting condominiums, trying to exclude hundreds or thousands of them around the country from qualifying for financing under its mortgage insurance program? FHA officials tell me absolutely not. But an abrupt new “no-tolerance ...

Market Leader makes CRM tools available to mobile users
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Market Leader Inc. is making some capabilities of the Market Leader Professional and Business Suite available to users of smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Market Leader Mobile, which will be offered at no additional cost to customers, ...

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Imprev integrates Dropbox into marketing platform
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Imprev Inc., the Bellevue, Wash.-based developer of marketing tools for real estate brokers and agents, has integrated Dropbox into its marketing platform. Imprev's Marketing Center is a mobile-optimized platform with single-property websites, ...

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NAHREP: Immigration reform would boost housing
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Proposed immigration reform could pump more than half a trillion dollars into the U.S. economy by paving the way for about 3 million Hispanics to buy homes over a five-year period, according to an estimate released by the National Association of ...

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Pinterest board sparks 2 showing requests in minutes
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Mike Gardner isn't going to bother making a stand-alone site for one of his listings. All he needs for the luxury Malibu, Calif., mobile home, he said, is a Pinterest board. “My marketing campaign now is to pay for ads on Facebook and Google and point ...

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NAR may delay action on public-facing MLS sites
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WASHINGTON – A committee in charge of recommending policies to the National Association of Realtors' board of directors has removed language from a controversial policy amendment that would have allowed multiple listing services to charge all ...

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Texas homebuilder settles RESPA kickback allegations for $118194
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A Texas homebuilder has agreed to pay more than $100,000 to resolve allegations that he received kickbacks from two mortgage lenders through joint ventures that federal regulators characterized as sham businesses. Paul Taylor will pay $118,194 — the ...

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Fed's work is not done
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Interest rates on long-term bonds and mortgages have stopped their May rise, a little above the halfway mark of the low and high for the year. The tilt seems to be upward, but the trading pattern has been chaotic and artificial, trading on guesses at ...

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New Google Maps paints richer portraits of neighborhoods
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A revamped version of Google Maps that Google recently introduced at its annual developer-focused tech conference equips the app with several new features that paint more colorful portraits of neighborhoods as well as larger geographic areas. The ...

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Tame Google Analytics with a real estate dashboard
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The infographic contained numerous facts and statistics. Did you know that 55 percent of the top 10,000 websites utilize Google Analytics? Seth did an excellent job communicating the importance of measuring Web analytics. “It's game changing and it's ...

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A crib sheet for real estate tech startups
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Cruising through a dozen or so apps and services demoing at the RealTech SF event in San Francisco a couple weeks ago made me realize how much the real estate startup scene is once again in full swing. Many of these startups have great ideas, solid ...

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Realtors made — and spent — more in 2012
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Realtors saw their incomes jump and also ratcheted up their spending on technology as their optimism increased in 2012, according to the 2013 member survey from the National Association of Realtors. With a median income of $43,500 on a median of 12 ...

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How not to use LinkedIn
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My LinkedIn account has been terribly neglected. Even as I write this sentence, I feel as though I should be updating my LinkedIn profile instead. Let's just say I am “kind of” LinkedIn. I have two friends in the Twin Cities who are experts on LinkedIn ...

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NAR committee endorses public-facing MLS sites as 'basic' service
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WASHINGTON — Multiple listing services should be able to charge all members for the costs of establishing and promoting public-facing websites, a National Association of Realtors policy committee has ruled. NAR's Multiple Listing Issues and Policies ...

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Redfin enters Florida, now in 22 markets
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Seattle-based brokerage Redfin has expanded operations to Miami, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach in South Florida bringing its tech-focused model to a total 22 markets, the company announced today. It's the fourth major market Redfin's opened ...

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Houzz opens up business directory to real estate agents
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Home remodeling site Houzz has added a professional category for real estate agents in response to requests from agents who want to join the site's business directory, the company said. Nearly 900 agents and brokers had signed up as of Wednesday ...

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Realtor finds Google Glass 'awesome'
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Given Google's tight clutch on prototypes of its futuristic eyewear, known as Google Glass, Greg Geilman may be the first real estate agent to test the device. His finding? The smart glasses, which allow users to perform many smartphone functions ...

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Homebuilders ready to kick it up a notch
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A net increase of homes on the market is what really will bring inventory back up, NAR Chief Economist Lawrence Yun has told Inman News. When the pressure of low inventory eases, then agents can worry less about scaring up sellers for their buyers and ...

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