A bill being introduced in Congress by Reps. Joe Donnelly (D-IN), Stephen Fincher (R-TN), and Gary Miller (R-CA) is trying to fix what the legislators feel is an unintended consequence of new rules from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau that … [Read more...]

Move, the company that runs Realtor.com, has added some interesting features to its Realtor.com Android app. It now gives information about school districts. If you zoom into an area far enough, icons of local schools will appear. You can click one … [Read more...]

Support a statewide YPN network! It only takes a minute: click the YPN logo above to “sign the petition.” What is YPN? Let’s start with a short history lesson: YPN (Young Professionals Network) was launched by NAR in 2006. The goal was to … [Read more...]

This appeared in the April/May issue of Commonwealth magazine. With more and more electronic communication being done in public — the “social” part of social media — you’ll find that you can never really remove your Realtor hat. … [Read more...]

You may have heard the now-pretty-famous story of how, by analyzing customers’ buying habits, Target is able to predict when a family is going to have a baby before the parents tell anyone. Big Data (capitalize both words, please) is a big … [Read more...]

Check it out: Chase now lets you "Find and finance your new home" — the bank has an Android/iPhone app that lets you search for a home and then (of course) see about working with Chase for your mortgage. Chase is apparently getting … [Read more...]