POWER BROKER Report Archives

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Study Finds Hispanics Optimistic About Financial Future, Despite Challenges Hispanics are feeling positive about their financial situation, according to new research commissioned by Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Company (MassMutual), despite the slow growth in wages and still rebounding economy. The study examined the perceptions Hispanics have of their...	2015-03-27
Study: More People Drawn to Bright Lights, Big Cities According to a report recently published by a new think tank, City Laboratory, more young professionals are opting for the cities over the suburbs. This has historically been the trend, but new data shows that this desire for urban real estate has skyrocketed in America’s...	2014-12-22
Study: Recent Renters as Emotionally Invested as Homeowners Recent renters, who experience a rollercoaster of emotions when searching for a new rental home, are as emotionally invested in their homes as homebuyers, according to a recently released RentPath study. The findings, which examined thousands of recent renters who either...	2016-09-22
Study: Women Entrepreneurs Surge in Top 25 Largest U.S. Cities The Center for an Urban Future published a new study, with support from Capital One's Future Edge initiative, that reveals a dramatic surge in women entrepreneurs in the nation's 25 largest cities but also shows that women still face a number of challenges as they start and...	2016-03-02
Succeeding as the Market Recovers: Long & Foster President Talks Strategy According to Long & Foster President Gary Scott, lessons learned from the real estate downturn should serve as invaluable guidelines for succeeding in the recovery. “By maintaining the same financial discipline and rigor in our decision-making that we learned in 2007 and...	2014-05-27
Super-Charged Strategies for Long-term Success Smooth, steady success—it’s what every real estate broker wants. But is it actually attainable? According to five leading brokerage executives, sustainable success is indeed achievable, and during RISMedia’s Real Estate CEO Exchange last month, they shared exactly...	2015-10-29
Super-Charging Culture with the Mega Office The office space that a real estate company occupies should create a positive energy and culture that helps everyone be more productive. But just as important, your environment should make your agents want to come to the office each day. Our organization just finished building a new...	2016-03-30
Survey Explores 'Generation Gap 2.0' "Don't trust anyone over 30" captured the essence of the Generation Gap in the 1960s, when college students mobilized to set a bold new tone in American culture. Echoes of that intergenerational tension resonate in today's U.S. workplace as many younger workers...	2014-10-24
Survey Indicates Credit Expansion Headwinds The mortgage market was buffeted by a number of changes in 2013 and 2014; among them, higher fees at the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and changes to underwriting as required by the Ability- to-Repay (ATR) and Qualified Mortgage (QM) Rules. In April of this year, NAR Research...	2014-09-25
Survey Says: Business Opportunities Abound for Relo Departments New business opportunities don’t always require new products and original services, but sometimes just a new approach. Some brokerage relocation departments are successfully re-directing expertise to reflect their local markets’ ever-changing needs by expanding, linking or...	2013-08-21
Survey Says: Productivity Peaks on Tuesday Have a challenging project to tackle? Take it up on Tuesday, a new survey from Accountemps suggests. Thirty-nine percent of human resources (HR) managers interviewed rank Tuesday as the most productive day of the week. Thursday and Friday tied for the least productive day, each...	2013-12-17
Survey: American Consumer Back and Ready to Spend The Great Recession of 2007 caused the once-prolific American shopper to go into a prolonged scrimp mode. Now, some seven years later – and more than five years after the recession officially ended - the tide has turned, according to a new Consumer Reports study. A...	2014-09-26
Survey: Brokers Keeping Watchful Eye on Market Influencers Across the country, homes in many markets have regained value—a lot, in fact, passing their peaks prior to the recession. Brokers are riding the tailwind, with the majority of Power Brokers in RISMedia's 30th Anniversary Power Broker Report & Survey confident in the...	2018-04-08
Survey: Executives Expect Increased Availability of Credit for Remainder Of 2013 According to a recent survey by audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP, executives believe the lending environment will continue to improve for businesses in 2013, with more than 60 percent anticipating that their businesses will be able to readily access credit throughout the remainder...	2013-08-21
Survey: Financial Instability Top Reason Why People Aren't Buying Homes New survey data takes a look at how consumers are thinking about home buying, whether they're looking to buy their first property or turnaround their current home, what their priorities are in finding a home and a lender, and what interest rates they expect to pay. According to...	2014-05-29
Survey: Investors Plan to Reduce Purchases, Hold Rentals Real estate investors are responding to higher prices by buying fewer properties in the next 12 months and holding their rental properties at least five years or longer, according to a national survey of real estate investors conducted by ORC International for MemphisInvest.com and...	2013-06-13
Survey: Local Media Most Effective for Community News and Consumer Advertising New research reveals that 77 percent of consumers rely on local newspapers for community news and information, including printed copies of newspapers, newspaper websites, social media sites and newspaper apps. Across all generational groups – Millennials, GenXers and Boomers...	2016-08-19
Survey: Many Americans Stressed about Nation's Future Two-thirds of Americans say they are stressed about the future of our nation, including a majority of both Democrats and Republicans, according to the American Psychological Association's (APA) report "Stress in America™: Coping with Change." More than half of...	2017-02-21
Survey: Rising Housing Costs and Spouse Career Assistance Top Concerns for Relo Pros Rising housing costs and increasing requests from transferring employees who want additional spouse career assistance are the top concerns of human resources executives of global companies, according to a survey from Cartus Corporation, a leading provider of global relocation...	2015-08-27
Survey: Saving a Top Priority For Millennials, but Impulse Spending a Major Barrier One in three millennials (34 percent) ranked saving as their No. 1 goal for the year – ahead of living a healthy lifestyle (20 percent), paying off debt (19 percent), and losing weight (14 percent). But while saving was a top priority, a majority of millennials attributed their...	2016-03-30

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