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NAR issues kudos for efforts to help homeowners who are "underwater" refinance their homes.

Real estate coach Bob Corcoran puts the real estate market into perspective and dismisses the gloom and doom approach in favor of SUCCESS.

National Assn. of REALTORS joins Congressmen McNerney and Miller in call to stabilize mortgage market by increasing conforming loan limits permanently.

More than half of homeowners who purchased during U.S. market peak in 2006 are now underwater on their mortgages, according to Zillow.com® Q1 2008 Home Value Report.

New site features include school and neighborhood searches to meeting growing consumer demand for more demographic information.

A view of the changing relationship of real estate professionals with each other and consumers, the changing relationship of local and regional MLSs with each other, illustrating how these changes may be either enabled by or reflected in the MLS system of the future.

If you put less than 20% down on a home, many mortgage lenders require that you take out private mortgage insurance. The insurance can cost you several hundred dollars. It's there to protect the lender should you default.

Has the Denver real estate market bottomed out yet?

A REALTOR'S reward at closing is much more than a commission check. The feeling is priceless.

A realtor or an appraiser, may try and tell you the market value of your home based upon some statistical evidence, but an auction truly establishes what we in the auctioneer business call "auction value."

John Reilly and I both taught real estate principle classes for many years. During those years it was not uncommon for new students and new agents to complain about the fact that all they learned how to do was “pass the test.” John and I always argued that the information we taught in our classes did indeed prepare students to pass the license exam, but in addition we argued, that the information we taught and the way we taught, helped prepare students to become better real estate profession...

Judy@JudySepac.comFriday, May 9th, 2008, 5:11 AM PSTI've had my 13 year old call me from Italy (to Missouri). I was so excitedto get his phone call. The first time he called me on my home phone (a landline). The sound was so clear! I then signed up too. Then he called me on aSunday. I have a HP laptop that has a built in camera. When he called bothgrandsons could see me & grandpa; we could not see them as they did not havea camera. The next time; he text messaged me via Skype! Again, I wassurpri...

“Does anyone use skype for a telephone service provider ?” I lived overseas for over 4 years and lived by Skype to keep in touch with people at home. They also have some wicked deals on for North American packages now. I have also been using the forwarding feature to have calls forwarded to my cel phone. Because I have unlimited incoming minutes, people from anywhere call me for free. For both of us. Love the Skype. Shane

“First off, most of you are right in that not every single free listing service is a good place to advertise your listing.” Point2 offers a method of increasing the number of listings on your site by cooperating with other agents in the system. It is called Handshake and it allows you to  (1)   have others’ listings on your site(2)   have your listings on their sites(3)   control who you share your listings with It is another way that Point2 helps drive traffic to your website. S...

I am not sure where to turn on this one.We have an issue with part-time agents cutting the selling agent's fee to get a listing. I am not opposed to anyone cutting their fee to get listings. It is when they cut the selling agent's fee that causes me grief.I also understand that listing agents can do whatever they choose to do with fees. It is their listing. I also do not have to agree to accept the fee that is offered. My problem is when I have a Buyer Broker Agreement with a client who would li...