-Home price growth slowed in 97 of the 100 largest U.S. housing markets in May, with the national annual appreciation rate pulling back by more than a full percentage point from the month prior -While the slowdown to 19.3% from a revised 20.4% in April marks the largest single-month deceleration...
Month: July 2022
Opteon Announces Acquisition of Northeastern Appraisal Associates
Acquisition strengthens leading nationwide Appraisal Management Company's footprint in Northeast Opteon, a leading international provider of valuation, advisory, and property services, has announced its acquisition of Northeastern Appraisal Associates Residential (NEA), a Buffalo, New...

WORD OF THE DAY: Imprest
[IM-prest] Part of speech: Noun Origin: Italian, mid-16th century Definition: A fund used by a business for small items of expenditure and restored to a fixed amount periodically; a sum of money advanced to a person for a particular purpose. Examples of Imprest in a sentence...
Redfin Reports Asking Prices Come Down from All-Time High
A record-high share of home sellers are dropping their prices after this month’s historic mortgage-rate hike put a damper on homebuyer activity More and more, home sellers are ceding to the mounting pressure on affordability posed by this month's rapid mortgage-rate hike, according to a...

Vulnerable Housing Markets
Certain Markets Will Be More Susceptible to Declines in 2022 By ATTOM Staff ATTOM, a leading curator of real estate data nationwide for land and property data, released a Special Housing Risk Report spotlighting county-level housing markets around the United States that are more or less vulnerable...

Overcoming Obstacles
From Prom Dresses to Real Estate By Brittney Fairweather My career started out quite differently than most. For one, I was a teenager. Second, I wasn’t exactly seeking a lifetime career. I had been asked to the prom and I was thrilled. I had the exact dress picked out that I wanted. However,...

Having an Impact
When “Nothing But The Best” in Life Will Do When David Offutt describes his experience in real estate, it immediately becomes clear that the two-decades-plus veteran of the industry is not just experiencing a great deal of success; he is having a great deal of fun. “I love what I do,” he...

Sparrow: 3D Study
Executive Summary By Kori Covrigaru PlanOmatic, the biggest and fastest provider of Property Insights and marketing services for the single-family rental industry nationwide, partnered with their client, Sparrow, a leading provider of well-kept single-family rental homes nationwide, to measure the...

Tax Planning
The Secret to “Making Your Own Math” By Teresa Bilsky A business owner is interviewing accountants with a one-question interview, “What is two plus two?” Applicant after applicant answers four until finally an experienced applicant looks directly at the business owner and without any emotional...