POWER BROKER Report Archives

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Good Profits Vs. Bad Profits: The True Cost of Focusing Only on the Bottom Line Is there really such a thing as bad profits? With business getting larger and more powerful, and investors feeling and expecting ever greater ROI, wouldn’t that imply that all profits are good? It is an important question to ask. Bad profits are those profits that are...	2016-11-23
Goodbye, Desolation: U.S. Economy Poised for Blockbuster 2014 For the first time in more than six years consumer spending will lead U.S. economic growth as we enter 2014, Bank of the West Chief Economist Scott Anderson, Ph.D, said during his 2014 Economic Outlook press briefing earlier this week. Strong exports, capital spending and a recovery in...	2013-12-17
Google SEO Update: What's Working Now Given that Google regularly updates the algorithm that determines how close your Website gets to the top of its search engine returns, it's critical that you stay current about what the search goliath is currently rewarding—and adjust the design and content of your website...	2014-07-25
Great Leadership Begins With Mastering Your Mindset No matter the industry, there are certain qualities an individual must possess in order to be a great leader. From one's skillset to being able to approach various situations both openly and honestly, leaders have their work cut out for them when it comes to guiding others to...	2017-09-11
Grooming Agents for Success in a Fast-Changing Real Estate Market If agents are going to be successful in today’s rapidly changing market, the more training and tools they have at their fingertips, the better. Those that can hit the ground running with the skills they need are more likely to be able to build business. Real estate firms are...	2015-01-27
Growing Companies Invest More in Their Mobile Workforce The 8th annual Runzheimer International® Total Employee Mobility® (TEM®) Benchmarking Report shows that companies with high revenue growth (greater than 10 percent) invested more in their mobile workforce than companies with little to no revenue growth. High growth...	2013-09-24
Growing Your Business in Unpredictable Times: Don't Miss RISMedia's 2017 CEO Exchange Over 225 of the most powerful and successful real estate leaders will take to New York City this September for RISMedia's 2017 Real Estate CEO Exchange, "Growing Your Business in Unpredictable Times." The exclusive, day-and-a-half-long event, taking place Sept. 12-13...	2017-06-15
GSE Reform: Trump Calls for Ceasing Conservatorship, Protecting Taxpayers Memorandum to Mobilize Plans for Reform In a recent memorandum, the Trump Administration formalized GSE reform, with the President calling on Congress, the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Treasury Department to develop and execute plans that...	2019-03-29
Half Empty or Half Full? Selling into the RMC Market It’s not news among brokerage-based relocation directors that Relocation Management Companies (RMCs) have become the dominant aggregators of corporate real estate referrals. Opportunities for relocation directors to cultivate direct corporate relationships have diminished as the...	2016-05-02
Harvard: Crawl in Incomes Led to Unaffordability Over the course of the past 30 years, Americans' earnings and the economy have been on parallel paths, but at mismatched strides. Now, homebuyers are paying for it. Affordability continues to be a headwind for housing, according to the Harvard University Joint Center for...	2018-06-28
High-Performance Home Marketing Services: More Important Than Ever Corporate transfer reluctance has declined consistently from its 78 percent high (2012) to 35 percent (2015) according to Worldwide ERC’s annual U.S. Transfer Volume & Cost Survey. Transferee homeowners are less likely to decline job transfers because of departure...	2016-08-19
Hispanics’ Home Values Experience Spike - is Geography at Play? According to the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), while it is widely accepted that home values are generally recovering, there is great disparity in recovery of values by race. In an Oct. 15 article by EPI’s Valerie Wilson, she writes that public data from the Survey of Consumer...	2014-10-22
Home Buying...with Children As the school year gets into full swing, both kids and their homebuyer parents will be facing new challenges. When we look at the needs of homebuyers with children under the age of 18 in the home, we discover that this is a unique buyer group. Neighborhood and location of the home,...	2017-10-30
HOME is Still Where the Heart Is As we head into the many possibilities of a New Year, one thing remains the same: the importance of friends and family to the experience of being a homeowner. Homeowners often want to locate close to their loved ones. According to the NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS®’...	2017-01-26
Home Prices Expected to Increase Faster than Overall Rent Growth in Many States Tight inventory and a pick-up in demand for homes as the economy continues to grow at a healthy pace have pushed up home prices. As of July 2015, the median price of all existing homes across the U.S. was $234,000, up 6 percent from a year ago, and at this level, the median price is...	2015-09-24
Home Prices: Boom Continues, but Leveling Out Needed The boom is continuing for home prices, with a gain in March of 6.5 percent, according to the S&P CoreLogic/Case-Shiller Indices. The S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller U.S. National Home Price NSA Index's 10-City Composite, which is an average of 10 metros (Boston,...	2018-05-31
Home Prices: Different Data Sources, the Stories They Tell, and Why You Need to Know the Difference There’s no shortage of information about the housing market in the media, but how do you sort through the data? How do you determine what to pay attention to? And better yet, how do you advise buyers and sellers about what matters to them? We’ll look at three major sources...	2014-03-26
Home Staging: Strategically Useful for Corporate Mobility Staging a home can speed up selling relocation properties and potentially lessen corporate expenses – good reasons to consider it selectively as a cost-efficient strategy. Most corporate transferring homeowners must find marketplace buyers because employers don’t often...	2014-06-17
Home-Buying Preferences for Buyers With Children The latest Moving With Kids report from the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) takes a closer look at the unique needs of homebuyers with children under the age of 18 in the home. Neighborhood factors in choosing a home, how the buyer found their agent, and criteria for...	2018-11-29
Homebuyer and Seller Generational Trends 2017 The National Association of REALTORS® Research department recently released its fifth annual "Home Buyer and Seller Generational Trends Report" for the fifth year. The survey takes an in-depth look at generational differences among homebuyers and sellers over the...	2017-05-02

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