By Ian McKendry HomeFinder.com, a real estate search site that uses numerous search filters to allow real estate agents, prospective homebuyers and renters to quickly narrow their search, is now available as an Android app. “We understand that home

By Lani Rosales for AGBeat Visual social media has been the big hit of 2012, with visual bookmarking site Pinterest leading the way alongside photo sharing tool Instagram. New data from Shareaholic reveals that referral traffic from Pinterest still

By Tara Steele for AGBeat In the recent American Dream Survey by real estate search giant Trulia, Chief Economist Dr. Jed Kolko notes that renewed optimism about housing is not without reason, but the pendulum may have swung too

By AGBeat It is well known that Google constantly grooms its algorithm to provide what it deems the most relevant search results possible in its endless quest to think like a human brain. In February 2011, a batch of

For this week’s By The Numbers, LeapRE looked at the market transaction percentages for two emerging brokerages, @properties and

By Kathleen Cosner for AGBeat We have a new “industry standard” making an appearance for both appraisers and Realtors. Those of us who do work with appraisal management companies and complete Broker Price Opinions are being asked to submit

By Peter Ricci It’s the ever-present question on everyone’s mind, right up there with the meaning of life and the purpose of the Higgs Boson – what DO homebuyers want, in today’s real estate market? All kidding aside, it’s

By Stephanie Sims With zombies trending lately, in pop culture and several times in the news, scarily enough, perhaps your clients have wondered aloud whether or not they should buy a property that would defend against any future apocalyptic

Wells Fargo is shutting down its wholesale lending business as part of a broad settlement with the Justice Department for a discriminatory lending lawsuit. The San Francisco-based bank will also pay borrowers $125 million to settle claims and commit $50 million

By Peter Ricci Chicago is the top buyer’s market in the nation, according to a new study of buyer and seller markets by real estate website Zillow. According to Zillow’s research, listings times in Chicago are longer than the

The RE/MAX Suburban team of Bob Baker, Jim Nelson, Sr. and Jim Nelson, Jr. were recently honored with the Distinguished Service Award for the brokerage’s performance in 2011 by the RE/MAX Northern Illinois real estate network. The team, which

By Carlo Calma Fran Broude, president and COO of Coldwell Banker Residential Brokerage, has announced that several of the brokerage’s agents have been named to the 2012 The Wall Street Journal/REAL Trends The Thousand Report, according to an issued

By Ian McKendry Real estate agents around the country are finding more and more utility from computer tablets that are incredibly mobile and have large displays, making them easy on the eyes. To date, Apple’s line of iPads has dominated

Real estate professionals who were featured in Chicago Agent magazine’s Who’s Who issue celebrated and mingled with colleagues and friends at CA‘s Who’s Who party at BoConcept in Lincoln Park. Specialty Templeton Rye cocktails and appetizers were served while

The National Association of Home Builders/First American Improving Markets Index (IMI) expanded yet again last month, with the NAHB adding 11 more metros to the index, which now totals 84. A measure of improving economic conditions, the IMI now

By Peter Ricci It was seven years ago that ICANN, the nonprofit that oversees top-level domain names, announced it would allow new domain names in addition to .com, .net and .org, and this summer, it was revealed that the