POWER BROKER Report Archives

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Do Your Employees Practice Safe Texting? Despite the convenience of text messaging, with over 3 million messages sent per minute, its use as an enterprise communications tool is inherently risky. TeleMessage, secure text messaging provider, warns against using standard text messaging and/or consumer messaging chat apps...	2016-11-28
Dow 20K to Benefit Housing Market…at Least, Psychologically There are many key metrics that brokers look to in order to gauge how the housing market is trending. The Case-Shiller Index, the National Association of Home Builders/Wells Fargo Housing Market Index and the National Association of REALTORS® monthly existing-home sales statistics...	2017-02-21
Drop in Foot Traffic May Predict Inventory Increase For the second consecutive month, foot traffic as measured by NAR’s Research index fell sharply. While bad weather may have played a role in this trend, the effect is widespread and significant. This movement suggests that the year-over-year decline in existing-home sales, which...	2014-02-24
Easing of Inventory Shortage Expected in 2018 Inventory constraints that have fueled a sharp rise in home prices and made it difficult for buyers to gain a foothold in the market will begin to ease next year as part of broad and continued market improvements, according to the recently released realtor.com® 2018 National...	2017-11-29
Economic Outlook and Forecast: Jobs, Inventory, Mortgage Rates and Inflation Economic growth mildly contracted in the first quarter of 2015, but will pick up in the second quarter and second half of the year. For the year as a whole, GDP will expand at 2.1 percent: not a bad number, but not great. The growth rate would also mark the tenth consecutive year of...	2015-07-21
Economic Outlook for 2016 The collapse in oil prices has quickly turned previously solid housing markets into questionable ones. In the latest data, North Dakota came in dead last in job changes with 9,600 fewer jobs, translating into a 2 percent reduction in overall state employment. Louisiana and Oklahoma are...	2015-12-28
Economic Outlook: Growing, but Slowly The economy is growing but continues to underperform. The first quarter GDP looks to be turning mildly negative once the data revisions are in. This sluggish production is occurring at a time when employment has been gaining at a solid pace. A net total of 3.1 million net new jobs were...	2015-05-27
Economy Remains on Firm Footing Amid Global Risks Fannie Mae's Economic & Strategic Research (ESR) Group expects economic growth to pick up in the fourth quarter, bringing growth for all of 2015 to 2.2 percent with a slight expansion to 2.4 percent in 2016. Solid consumer spending and an increase in construction activity, home...	2015-11-20
Education, Celebration Mark Upcoming Power Broker Events A full line-up of educational and celebratory opportunities will highlight RISMedia’s 19th Annual Power Broker Event taking place on Friday, Nov. 7, in conjunction with the Annual REALTORS® Conference & Expo in New Orleans. The day kicks off at 1:30 p.m. when RISMedia...	2014-08-26
Election 2016: How Leaders Can Keep the Team Focused on Work, Not Politics As the Presidential election heats up, employees are spending more time watching the news, checking their social media accounts and hanging out by the water cooler discussing the candidates – all at the expense of lost productivity and possibly igniting personnel conflicts that...	2016-08-16
Election and Policy Aftermath Weigh on Financial Advisors Politics, policy and how markets react to the upcoming elections are among the top issues concerning advisors now, according to the Q4 Eaton Vance Advisor Top-of-Mind Index (ATOMIX), a quarterly survey of more than 1,000 financial advisors. 25% of advisors said the U.S....	2016-10-25
Energy Boom Fuels Rapid Population Growth in Certain Areas Oil- and gas-rich areas in and near the Great Plains contained many of the fastest-growing areas in the U.S. last year, according to recently released U.S. Census Bureau population estimates. Areas along and near the Gulf Coast were also home to several high-growth communities. Of...	2014-03-27
Exercise Your Crisis Decision-Making Skills On July 19, 1989 United Flight 232 crash landed at the airport in Sioux City, Iowa killing 111 of the 296 people on board. Many of those who survived owe their lives to a coordinated interagency response by the county. The outcome might have been much different. The Sioux City airport...	2014-11-18
Experts Are Eyeing a Recession in 2020—but It's Not Why You Think The economy is on a roaring run. Is a downturn imminent? Experts in housing are predicting a recession starting in 2020, according to Zillow's 2018 Q2 Home Price Expectations Survey; however, they anticipate monetary policy—not the housing market—as...	2018-05-31
Facebook Makes Ad Changes Following HUD Fair Housing Complaint Shortly after a complaint was filed by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Facebook has announced it is removing 5,000-plus ad targeting options this fall that "relate to attributes such as ethnicity or religion." Most of the removed...	2018-08-31
Facebook Shops Around for Its Next Business Endeavor: Rental Listings Once touted as the most popular and innovative internet community of its time, Facebook is now pushing to compete with trendy social media platforms like Instagram and Snapchat. As part of its rebranding efforts to become an all-in-one service, Facebook recently added payment...	2017-11-30
Factors for Improving Home Sales Nearly every factor generally associated with home sales has been turning for the better. We have more jobs, growing population, rising rents, additional inventory choices, record-high household net worth, and exceptionally low mortgage rates. On top of these trends, there is...	2014-12-22
Fears about Environment Increase, but Little Change in Consumer Behavior Concern about environmental problems has increased in most countries, and more people now expect global warming will negatively affect them during their lifetime than in 2012. However, according to a new global analysis from the National Geographic Society and GlobeScan, sustainable...	2014-09-26
Financial Stress Leads to Increased Absenteeism, Decreased Productivity A new survey of economic stress and financial wellness in the American workplace reveals that significantly more employees are living paycheck-to-paycheck, and that financial stress is a substantial and growing contributor to absenteeism and decreased productivity. The survey,...	2014-05-29
Finish the Year Strong, Start the New Year Stronger As many Power Brokers know, closing the fourth quarter strong is vital in order to prepare for a strong start in 2015. In a recent webinar entitled “Finish the Year Strong, Start the New Year Even Stronger,” hosted by RISMedia President & CEO...	2014-12-22

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