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
Student Loans Standing in the Way of Home Buying for College Grads? Here, Some Solutions It’s no surprise that young homebuyers have often struggled to come up with the funds to buy their dream home. Many start with a smaller home, townhome, or condo in order to take out a mortgage on their own. Today, however, even those making salaries that may allow them...	2013-05-05
Student Loan Debt and Millennial Homeownership Student loan debt continues to grow in size and share of the overall debt in the economy. The U.S. currently has a student debt load of $1.4 trillion, which accounts for 10 percent of all outstanding debt and 35 percent of non-housing debt. According to a new joint study on...	2017-12-27
Student Loan Debt an Ongoing Hurdle to Homeownership The U.S. currently has a student debt load of over $1.4 trillion, which accounts for 10 percent of all outstanding debt and 35 percent of non-housing debt. The magnitude of the debt continues to grow in size and share of the overall debt in the economy. While this amount of debt has...	2018-08-31
Student Loan Debt a Hurdle to Homeownership The U.S. currently has a student debt load of $1.3 trillion, which accounts for 10 percent of all outstanding debt. The magnitude of the debt continues to grow in size and share of the overall debt in the economy. While this amount of debt has risen, the homeownership rate has fallen,...	2016-06-28
Student Debt Is One of the Top Reasons Millennials Are Not Buying Homes Twenty-somethings are not borrowing money to buy homes at the rate they were a decade ago—a trend that may have as much to do with high levels of student debt and poor job prospects as it has to do with trauma from the housing bust, according to new research and analysis from...	2015-06-24
Strategic Relationships and the Home-Buying Experience: The Critical Connection Collaborative, convenient, streamlined and compliant home-buying processes among settlement providers can be one of the most critical contributors to a homebuyer’s positive experience. Meanwhile, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) and other federal and state...	2016-10-25
Stock Market Volatility Good for Some Markets, Bad for Others Instead of starting with a bang, 2016 kicked off with a plunge. On the first day of trading, Jan. 4, the American indexes recorded the biggest losses ever for a year-opening session. The Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 275 points with the S&P 500 and NASDAQ indexes each...	2016-02-24
Stemming the Tide of Data Misappropriation How to protect your listing data…and your business Gone are the days when REALTORS® would do the legwork and provide a stack of listings to buyers. Would-be buyers can view listing data any number of places online, though they tend to go in droves to the big online real...	2013-02-25
Staying Safe: Brokers Unite To Protect Their Teams After a rash of highly publicized attacks on real estate agents, efforts to protect them are picking up steam. A national initiative that has brokers across the country working together to make their offices available for meetings, and September’s REALTOR® Safety Month,...	2015-08-26
Smart Homes: The Way of the Future or a Risk to Homeowners? Glitches of early iterations aside, AI-based technology has come a long way, and has an increasingly active presence in the lives of homeowners who are looking for convenience and savings in a pushed-for-time era. From adaptive thermostats that automatically gauge energy usage and...	2018-06-28
Small Business, Big Data, Entrepreneurs and Tech Will Reign in 2014 As 2013 draws to a close, five professors with the Daniels College of Business at the University of Denver say small business, big data, entrepreneurship and tech will boom in 2014. Spurred by growth in these four sectors, 2014 is the year that the U.S.'s economic engine surges...	2013-11-22
Sizing up Opportunity: Pat Riley, Allen Tate Company With a new gig as Chairman of the Board of Leading Real Estate Companies of the World®, Allen Tate Company President & CEO Pat Riley has a busy year ahead. In addition to heading LeadingRE’s global network of 500-plus top real estate firms for a two-year term, Riley is...	2015-03-27
Sizing up Corporate Mobility While the residential marketplace is finally showing real traction in its recovery, the relocation segment of the market has been the focus of much debate. The volume of employer-sponsored moves dropped precipitously during the housing collapse and recessionary years. Will we see a...	2013-02-27
Six Myths of Employee Engagement With today’s global ability to produce carbon copy technology and business models, people truly are a company’s only competitive advantage. Businesses that want to accentuate and optimize their competitive talent advantage focus on employee engagement strategies that...	2016-03-01
Significant ERC Survey Findings and the Impact on Your Relo Business We always look forward to Worldwide ERC’s annual effort to capture the macro trends in domestic employee mobility. Despite the challenges of capturing broad-based data in a time of fast-paced change, the “U.S. Transfer Volume and Cost Survey” nonetheless gives us our...	2013-09-24
Sifting, Seeding and Selling: Finding and Helping the Relocating First-Time Buyer Anticipating a strong recovery in first-time buyer volume generated by corporate relocations, we offer these suggestions for recognizing these new customers and serving them effectively. When employers ask their people to move for new jobs, they unpin accustomed...	2015-01-27
Sharing Our Bounty through 'Move For Hunger' Our relocation industry has always employed more than its share of socially conscious people. The essence of our work is using our special knowledge in skilled and empathetic ways to help employees and families get through big life changes. Throughout relocation management and real...	2015-10-29
Several Distinguished Awards Presented at RISMedia’s Power Broker Dinner during NAR Conference Over the past several years, RISMedia has honored many industry icons for their important contributions to the real estate industry during its annual Power Broker Dinner held in conjunction with the National Association of REALTORS® Conference & Expo. Earlier this month,...	2014-11-21
Setting Boundaries: The Regulation of AI and the Impact on Real Estate Artificial intelligence (AI)—once a far-fetched capability only dreamed up in films—is becoming mainstream, including within the real estate industry. More brokerages are becoming reliant on proprietary algorithms that use datasets to streamline various processes and make...	2018-04-08

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