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The following is a submitted Letter to the Editor by NAR President Elizabeth Mendenhall addressing the highly debatable claim made last week by a USA Today guest columnist that homeownership is a [...]

The Redfin Housing Demand Index began the year strong at 130.5 in January, up 0.5 percent month over month. The seasonally adjusted number of buyers requesting home tours remained unchanged from [...]

 Are you a social maven? Got the basics of Instagram down? If you haven’t already explored Instagram stories, now might be a great time to start experimenting.

After finding a REALTOR®, being pre-approved for a mortgage is one of the most critical steps potential homebuyers should complete. This is essentially an assurance from a lender that the buyer [...]

Thirty-five percent of people who bought a home last year said they made an offer without first seeing the home in person, up from 33 percent in May 2017 and 19 percent in June 2016. This is [...]

In a monthly survey of REALTORS®, the survey asks “Think of your most recent sales contract in the past 3 months that was either closed or terminated. Please explain how the deal concluded.” The [...]

By Melissa Dittmann Tracey, REALTOR® Magazine Supersized tiles are making over more floors, and this may be welcome news to many homeowners. Large format tiles means less grout to clean. The [...]

Edina, Minn. is one of the few suburbs I could see myself living in. It has decent public transportation, boutique storefronts, independent restaurants—and for an extra dose of kitsch—the first [...]

Design, Olympics, history, strategy, and focus. Apple’s new campus might be beautiful, but its occupants face challenges. Tiny house designs maximize use of space, but you don’t need to live in a [...]

NAR released a summary of existing-home sales data showing that housing market activity this January fell 3.2 percent from last month and dipped 4.8 percent from last year. January’s existing [...]