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February 2019 Showing Index Results: 7th Straight Month of Declines Foretells a Buyer’s Market
March 26, 2019 – The traditionally busy spring home buying season can’t come soon enough for home sellers across the country as February continued the trend of year-over-year declines in showing activity, according to data from the ShowingTime Showing Index®. Marking...
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Make the FastStats Annual Report Work for You
Those of you who receive FastStats PDF reports are probably familiar with the Annual Report. If not, as the name implies, it’s a PDF report released annually that conveniently paints a big picture about marketing conditions and brings much-desired certainty into an...
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10 Essential Tasks for Home Sellers
Why have you decided to put your house on the market? Are you a growing family looking to upgrade in square footage? Or two empty nesters who no longer need three bedrooms since the children have grown and moved out? Perhaps you’re savvy with your finances and, after...
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The Agent’s Guide to Millennial Home Buyers
After years of anxious discussion about whether the day would actually arrive, it finally happened: Millennials have started to enter the housing market. According to a recent Realtor.com report, Generational Propensity Report: 2018 in Review, millennials officially...
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South Central Kansas MLS Announces Adoption of the ShowingTime Appointment Center
February 19, 2019 – ShowingTime, the residential real estate industry’s leading showing management and market stats technology provider, announced today that the South Central Kansas MLS has adopted the ShowingTime Appointment Center as its exclusive showing appointment service, effective February 12.
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Using InfoSparks to Handle Tough Conversations with Sellers using a Data-Driven Approach
A house that stubbornly refuses to sell can be a vexing thing. Given the emotional and financial investments a seller may have put into a house, it’s easy to see why they may initially be resistant to changing their asking price or in making necessary changes to make...
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Create Your Own Real Estate Year in Review with InfoSparks
Creating your own real estate year in review with InfoSparks can not only be very beneficial for current and prospective clients, but also for other prospecting purposes.
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Potential Home Buyers Lose Interest as Showing Activity Drops Broadly with Consecutive Monthly Declines; Trend Likely to Continue Into 2019
Dec. 21, 2018 – November showing activity was down 5.4 percent across the U.S. compared to 2017 and, for the second month in a row, each region of the country recorded a year-over-year decline.
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