Preparing a Home for Sale During a Divorce: A Step-by-Step Guide
Divorce is a challenging time and selling a home adds complexity. My guide offers a step-by-step approach to preparing your house for sale during a divorce, addressing legal, financial and emotional considerations. I have put considerable effort into educating you on the following topics: How to navigate the legal considerations of selling a home during… […]
4 Money-Saving Maintenance Projects to Suggest to New Homeowners
While the homebuying journey may have ended happily for you and a new client, your work is not over. Keeping in touch with past clients for future endeavors is a crucial way agents maintain contacts that lead to new sales and referrals. One of the best ways to do that is to continue to provide… […]
What a Difference Three Decades Can Make: Embracing Failure for Success
The year was 1994. Netscape Navigator came to market, Tom Hanks portrayed Forrest Gump and we couldn’t get “The Lion King’s” “Hakuna Matata” out of our heads. It was also the year two pioneering tech companies were born: Amazon and Delta Media Group. Both tech startups would share a common lineage by building success through… […]
Cooperative Compensation Removed From Revamped CAR Forms
Despite recent scrutiny, the California Association of REALTORS® (CAR) has shown a willingness to take feedback and adapt ahead of fast-approaching policy changes slated to hit the industry. CAR officials announced Wednesday that 30 new and revised forms were released as part of a semi-annual standard forms update. Most notably, the real estate organization has… […]
Instant Reaction: Mortgage Rates, July 03, 2024
The 30-year fixed mortgage rate from Freddie Mac increased to 6.95% over the last week from 6.86%. www.nar.realtor – Research
COURT REPORT: Realtor.com Sues CoStar; EXIT Granted Pause Despite Plaintiff Objections
Editor’s note: The COURT REPORT is RISMedia’s weekly look at current and upcoming lawsuits, investigations and other legal developments around real estate. Realtor.com® parent Move, Inc. files lawsuit against CoStar Realtor.com parent company Move, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in California, claiming that a former Move employee now working for Homes.com… […]
Realtor.com Parent Files Suit Against CoStar, Claiming Theft of Proprietary Information
Mere weeks after the Realtor.com and Homes.com CEOs hurled hurled insults and accusations at each other as the residential real estate portal giants fight for second place behind Zillow, the battle was ratcheted up further on July 2 when Realtor.com parent Move, Inc. filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in California, claiming that… […]
EXCLUSIVE: CoStar CEO Blasts Information-Theft Lawsuit, Labeling it a ‘Sick, Twisted PR Stunt’
In an exclusive interview with RISMedia on July 5, CoStar CEO Andy Florance lambasted the new lawsuit filed by Realtor.com parent Move, Inc. that claimed a former Move employee, now working for Homes.com parent CoStar, stole proprietary information from his former employer, labeling it a desperate attempt for attention and attributing it to one of… […]