Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great promise for your business – but it holds even greater promise for scammers who can create “deep fake” videos and photos that not only look just like your listings, they could even look exactly like you.
Under Risk Rating 2.0, how does FEMA determine an individual property’s insurance cost? FEMA says it can’t share data, so a Louisiana parish sued to find out.
Overall consumer confidence fell to 101.3 from March’s 104.0, dragged down by a drop in future expectations. The measure of current attitudes rose 2.2 points.
HUD will propose clearer rules shortly. Once finalized, they’ll help the RE industry comply with the Fair Housing Act and be the standard for gov’t-assisted housing.
Writing for Inman News, Jimmy Burgess says a number of his go-to tech tools make his job easier, and he regrets waiting so long to adopt and learn how to use them.
Of the 20 cities included in the indices, 8 had price declines – but Fla. led the U.S. in price increases with No. 1 Miami (up 10.8% year-to-year) and No. 2 Tampa (7.7%).
A Bradenton homeowner fixed problems nine years ago after a city code violation, but a surprise lawsuit for $75K arrived last Aug. demanding money.
Sales surpassed economists’ expectations. Builders say decreasing mortgage rates and the existing-home market’s lack of inventory probably pushed sales higher.
As more consumers rely on online reviews, positive user-generated content – comments, thank-you notes, testimonials – acts like a strong referral mechanism.
FHFA is raising some loan-level pricing for homebuyers whose lender plans to sell the loan to Fannie or Freddie. The change mainly impacts stronger-credit buyers.
