June 2012

Attention Real Estate Professionals!!

June 30, 2012
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The Cost of Owning a Home (Last 20 Years)

June 29, 2012
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Notes from the report: Prices and mortgage payments are based on the median existing single-family home price, averaged from quarterly data to obtain annual prices. Mortgage payments are calculated using the interest-rate average for that year and assume a 20% downpayment and fixed 30-year term. Rent is the median gross monthly rent from the 2010 [...]

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Sell On the Go with Your iPad

June 28, 2012
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We’re honored to have Matthew Ferrara share his knowledge and wisdom on the technologies you can use to benefit your business. – The KCM Crew Get ready for a whole new level of mobile sales productivity – with an iPad! For years, REALTORS® have worked to increase access to important sales information while on the [...]

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The Real Value of Homeownership…It’s Not Monetary

June 27, 2012
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There are numerous media sources reporting the advantages and disadvantages of homeownership. Every expert (from international money managers who have hundreds of billions of dollars of assets under management to local and national real estate experts) has chimed in on the subject. The bottom line is that the percentage of folks that own a home [...]

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Experts Say Housing Prices Are About to Turn

June 26, 2012
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Each quarter, Pulsenomics surveys a “distinguished panel of over 100 economists, investment strategists, and housing market analysts regarding their 5-year expectations for future home prices in the United States.” Here are the results of their latest survey: Price appreciation/depreciation expected over the next five years: 2012:   -.4% 2013:   +1.3% 2014:   +2.6% 2015:   +3.2% 2016:   +3.5% [...]

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Harvard University: Echo Boomers to Drive Recovery

June 25, 2012
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The Joint Center for Housing Studies of Harvard University just released their annual State of the Nation’s Housing 2012. In the report, Harvard explained that, starting this year and continuing over the next twenty years, the echo boomers (born in the late 1970s and early 1980s) will drive the housing market. “After several false starts, [...]

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