
New Money Laundering Rules Make Agents Report Cash Home Sales
The Treasury Department has issued regulations aimed at making it harder for criminals to launder money by paying cash for residential real estate.
The Treasury Department has issued regulations aimed at making it harder for criminals to launder money by paying cash for residential real estate.
Nearly half of online property inquiries are simply ignored, according to new research from real estate analyst and consultant Mike DelPrete.
Right now, according to Redfin, more houses have been on the market for 30 days or more than any other time in recent memory
Loose lips can not only sink ships, they can also scuttle real estate transactions. That applies to what home sellers say on social media as well as during a showing.
The proposed settlement in the National Association of Realtors’ commission lawsuits has created problems for seller’s agents as well as the more obvious questions buyer’s agents face.
The manner in which sellers leave their homes for the next owners says a lot about their character. But considerate sellers exist, and they get rewarded by the housing market.
Nothing turns up buyers’ noses faster than a smelly house. They walk in, stop, take a whiff and are ready to turn around and leave. Some won’t even go beyond the front door.
Final Offer, a listing tech startup that’s been gaining steam in the Massachusetts and Washington, D.C. markets announced it had crossed a major milestone this week.
Top producers’ most important skillset is their ability to build strong connections with the potential leads they meet. Here are 10 ways to do what they do, and achieve similar success.
Alison Socha’s 23 years in real estate started with a personal connection. As a teenager, she babysat Linda O’Koniewski’s children long before the now-CEO of Leading Edge Real Estate had worked her way into her leadership position.
Once in a blue moon, a cancellation works out to the seller’s advantage. For the most part, though, sellers have no choice but to grin and bear it. The first step is to determine what went wrong.
The toughest part of buying a house isn’t finding the ideal place or locking down financing. It’s actually making the offer – not just the monetary part, mind you, but deciding what to include and what to leave out.
One year, 155 basis points on the average 30-year mortgage’s interest rate and nearly 2,000 fewer Massachusetts home listings later, the Realtor-funded startup is back with a new version of its service and growth ambitions.
With the inventory of unsold houses rising on a daily basis, it’s time for sellers to consider taking a page out of the homebuilders’ playbook – especially when it comes to financing.
Two hot new trends in real estate – designing and buying a custom home sight-unseen, and having your home renovations paid for by someone else – could become forces in 2023’s housing market.
Up until a month or two ago, sellers were in the driver’s seat, but as buyers’ use of contingencies rise, they still have an option to control the deal.
It’s becoming increasingly apparent that the Department of Justice wants to force buyers to pay their own commissions. How would the real estate industry change?
Facebook will change its algorithms to prevent discriminatory housing advertising and its parent company will subject itself to court oversight to settle a lawsuit brought by the U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday.
Some sellers have a good reason for not wanting one. But for most people, “For Sale” signs are a 24-hour marketing tool that shouldn’t be ignored, even as house hunts mostly start online.
For homeowners thinking about cashing in on today’s blistering housing market, the situation has become something like a cat chasing its tail.