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Membership in the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has long been an essential requirement for real estate professionals, but that may soon change in the deep south. Alabama REALTORS® is now pushing to end mandatory NAR membership, allowing REALTORS® to only join local and statewide associations. Alabama REALTORS® CEO Jeremy Walker and President Senia Johnson,…
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The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) has announced a new series of consumer resources designed to help REALTORS® empower home buyers and sellers following recent practice changes. To date, NAR stated it has published six installments in the series and will continue to release new resources in the weeks ahead. “At the heart of what…
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Editor’s Note: The Mortgage Mix is RISMedia’s weekly highlight reel of need-to-know mortgage-industry happenings. Watch for it each Friday afternoon. -The Federal Reserve this week kicked off a long expected campaign of rate cuts with a larger than expected 50 basis point reduction in the federal funds rate. Fed Chair Jerome Powell called the decision…
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A lack of building coupled with rising prices and interest rates that are falling at a tapered pace are the main drivers of the persisting housing affordability crisis, according to researcher Daniel T. McCue, who carried out the analysis for a recent Harvard University study. When new units were built, which was infrequently, they tended…
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NAR’s 2024 International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate report surveyed members on their transactions with international clients who purchased and sold U.S. residential property from April 2023 through March 2024. Foreign buyers who resided in the U.S. as recent immigrants or were holding visas that allowed them to live in the U.S. purchased $22.6…
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