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The Mortgage Interest Deduction: What You Should Know

May 21, 2013  |  by Jess

Check out this short slideshow on the Mortgage Interest Deduction: The Short Version of What Every REALTOR® Needs to Know about Housing Tax Incentives. The Mortgage Interest Deduction from Nar Res There are a number of SlideShares available that may be of interest to you, such as: Overview of Recent National Association of REALTORS® Research Reports Challenges & Opportunities in... Continue Reading

John Heithaus interview with Bruce DePuyt

John L. Heithaus Talks DC Market on NewsChannel8 NewsTalk

May 16, 2013  |  by Jess

Earlier this week, MRIS Chief Marketing Officer John L. Heithaus sat down with NewsChannel8′s Bruce DePuyt to talk about the state of the DC market. Watch the full interview here.

Real Estate Listings

How to Keep Your Listings Current on Real Estate Sites

May 14, 2013  |  by Celeste

Editor’s Note: This guest post was written by Celeste Starchild, VP, Sales and Marketing of ListHub. ListHub is the industry’s leading agent/broker syndication tool for managing the complexities of marketing your listings online. ListHub’s syndication marketing service is available to all MRIS customers for free. Learn more about ListHub on MRIS.com or at ListHub.com. Accurate online listing information has been a sore point for the... Continue Reading

March 2013 vs March 2008 Inventory

What Buyers Must Know Right Now

May 3, 2013  |  by Chris Sicks

Things change. Home buyers who do not recognize and adjust to the changes are going to have a hard time this year. From 2007-2010 buyers were in charge. Sellers were so eager that they slashed prices and accepted many contingencies. Buyers could call most of the shots. If one seller wouldn’t make a deal, there was always another property down... Continue Reading

$200 Cash

3 Reasons Why Buyers Should Start Buying Now

March 27, 2013  |  by Jess

If you’re one of our Facebook or Twitter fans, then you learned about this yesterday, but for those who aren’t, the crew at Keeping Current Matters™ is looking at the three financial reasons why interested buyers should stop waiting and start buying: Prices are rising quickly, Interest rates are going up, and Rents are skyrocketing. The series concluded today, and... Continue Reading

House for Sale

What’s the Best Day to List a Home?

March 19, 2013  |  by Jess

Below is a reprint of an article featured on the Wall Street Journal online by journalist Sanette Tanaka. For the original post, click here. T.G.I.F. One day of the week can mean an extra $5,000 in a home-seller’s pocket. Last year, homes listed on Fridays sold for 99.1% of the seller’s original asking price, the highest percentage of any day... Continue Reading

Americans Expect Home Prices and Mortgage Rates to Increase

Americans Expect Home Prices and Mortgage Rates to Increase

March 14, 2013  |  by Jess

This is a reprint of a News Release from Fannie Mae. Click here to read the full release on the Fannie Mae website. Consumer attitudes toward the economy and housing continue to diverge this winter, according to Fannie Mae’s February 2013 National Housing Survey results. On the one hand, consumers continue to express strong positive attitudes toward housing. On the... Continue Reading

Supply and Demand

Will Supply Catch Up With Demand in Northern Virginia?

March 12, 2013  |  by Jess

This is a reprint of a post by Kathy Orton of the Washington Post as a follow-up to their recent online chat, “Navigating the Housing Market.” Click here to view the original post on the Washington Post’s Where We Live blog. We received so many questions for our online chat on Tuesday that we couldn’t get to them all. We... Continue Reading

Home Ownership Demand

Home Ownership Demand: Who’s Buying?

March 6, 2013  |  by Jess

In a recent USA Today article, author Julie Schmidt reports that immigrants will generate almost 36% of the increased demand for homes in the U.S within the current decade. That’s down from 39% in the past decade, according to new research from the University of Southern California. The decrease is in part due to the increase of native-born buyers share... Continue Reading

US Capitol Building

REALTORS, Mortgage Industry Await Impact of Sequester

March 5, 2013  |  by Jess

This article was written by Kerri Ann Panchuk for HousingWire.com. Click here to read the original article. The real estate industry is not immune from President Barack Obama’s official enactment of a sequester deal that launches $85 billion in automatic spending cuts across the board. Prior to the sequester, the Department of Housing and Urban Development described how the cuts could curtail funding for... Continue Reading

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