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NWMLS to Allow Brokerages to share more Data
The Northwest Multiple Listing Service has announced policy changes that will allow brokerages to display more information on their websites. This means that if brokerages choose to, people will be able to see the length of time a property has been on the market, referred to as days-on-market (DOM), as well as cumulative-days-on-market (CDOM), along [...]
Posted: June 2nd, 2008 under Agent Advice, Technology.
Tags: brokers, cdom, days-on-market, dom, nwmls, regulations, rules, Seattle
Comments: 25
The Mortgage Witch Hunt
Just in time for Halloween, officials from various levels of government are gathering together over the frightful happenings going on in the mortgage industry. Home values were going down, mortgage payments were on the rise and consumers did not contact their mortgage professional for advice. Some were provided opportunities to own homes by using “non-traditional” [...]
Posted: October 31st, 2007 under Agent Advice, Buyer Information, General Real Estate, Legal Issues, Mortgage and Lending.
Tags: bankers, brokers, legislation, Mortgage and Lending, second-mortgage, subprime, witch hunt, YSP
Comments: 46
There are now five drink sizes at Starbucks: Short, Tall, Grande, Venti, and Chuck Cross
Chuck Cross, former Director of Consumer Services for the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions is on his way to the other Washington to serve within the Conference of State Bank Supervisors.
Quoting from the CSBS press release, “Chuck was one of the key investigators, architects and negotiators of the multistate settlement with Household Finance and [...]
Posted: January 9th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: audit, brokers, Chuck-Cross, conference-of-state-bank-supervisors, csbs, lenders, oversight, predatory-lending
Comments: 6
Faster than fast, Quicker than quick, Ka-chow!
While spending quality time w/ the Cars addict in my family (the 3 year old who says “I wanna see the race car movie Daddy”) got me thinking about something that moves faster than Lightning McQueen, the relentless march of high technology.
A couple weeks ago, Real Central VA, had a link to an interesting NAR [...]
Posted: December 7th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: ads, agent, brokers, real-estate, Technology
Comments: 5
It may be broken, but here’s a plan to fix it!
Ah, finally get to catch up on reading some RCG posts. What a prolific group this is! Makes you wonder just how important a degree in creative writing might become to the average agent in the future. I’ve been busy cuz I’ve been doing alot of recruiting these days. So, when Eric, in a recent post wonders about the mega agent [...]
Posted: August 27th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: ads, agency, agent, blog, brokers, business-model, CMA, commission-structure, leads, listing-agent
Comments: 19
Inman’s Innovation Awards!
Congrats goes out to all the contributors on Rain City Guide! We were nominated as a finalist for the “Most Innovative Blog Award” by Inman News. In my world, contributors are not only the people with their photo up on the sidepanel, but also those of you who return to give your [...]
Posted: June 29th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: advice, agents, blogs, brokers, conference, connect, Inman, innovation, Mortgage and Lending, News, real-estate, realtors, Redfin, San-Francisco, Trulia, Zillow
Comments: 4
Discount brokers…
I had a long discussion with my grandfather this past weekend regarding the utility of full-service realtors. He’s been around quite a while, so I have no intention of dismissing his opinion on anything. Especially considering that he’s been an investor in real estate for most of his life.
He point blank asked me why [...]
Posted: May 9th, 2005 under General Real Estate, Seller Information.
Tags: agents, brokers, discount, MLS, real-estate, Seattle, Seller-Information
Comments: 2
