In a move to further strengthen its international network, the Miami Association of Realtors this week announced new partnership agreements with organizations on four continents. MIAMI penned agreements with six real estate associations in South America, North America, Europe

One-stop shopping offers benefits to homebuyers, but they still want agents’ help Fifty percent of recent homebuyers used one source, or one-stop shopping (OSS), to procure homebuying services, according to a National Association of Realtors survey. That is compared to 29 percent

Millennials’ entry into the housing market is a popular topic, but a new generation is already poised to follow in their footsteps – Generation Z. Some aren’t even old enough to vote, but these kids are already thinking about

Although it’s still far from its pre-recession peak, car transportation is up There has been a significant increase in the number of Americans driving, according to a report released by Doug Short of Advisor Perspectives. The report looked at the estimated

Downsizing is a natural progression in housing we’ve come to expect of older generations, such as the aging Baby Boomers, whose preference for high square footage is diminishing as their children leave the nest and retirement sets in. But

In late August, the Realtor associations of Miami and the Palm Beaches were at odds, trading legal blows over a potential merger between MIAMI and the Jupiter-Tequesta-Hobe Sound Association of Realtors (JTHS). As of Sept. 22, JTHS is officially

The economy continues to recover, but Americans’ finances are still stuck in the mud A surprisingly large share of Americans are in a precarious financial state, according to a new, detailed study from The Pew Charitable Trust. For its study,

The quality of the neighborhood is the No. 1 thing homebuyers consider when choosing their next home, according to the 2015 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers from NAR. Homebuyer considerations, though, differ substantially as household composition changes, and

According to NAR’s 2015 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, single women made up 15 percent of the overall homebuying market, as opposed to single men, who only made up 9 percent of the market. In 2013, single women

What compromises are homebuyers willing to make? All homebuyers make some sort of compromise, but according to NAR’s 2015 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, what they ultimately concede differs considerably based location and economic means. Here are the

Families might be able to have fun in Miami, but it may not be the best city for them to settle down, according to a new report from WalletHub. Cataloging Florida’s best and worst cities for families, the personal

Single family? Condo? 2,000-plus square feet? What defined the homes consumers bought this year? For our latest story in our continuing series on NAR’s 2015 Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, we’re taking a detailed look at the homes

The mortgage process doesn’t often top the list of things people like to do, but as far as dealing with banks and moneymen go, customers are more approving of the mortgage process now than any other time in the

NAR and RPR push forward with Upstream initiative The National Association of Realtors and Realtors Property Resource have made an agreement with UpstreamRE LLC to develop a cross-industry platform for real estate data entry, collection and distribution for real

What does the typical homebuyer look like in 2015? Earlier this week, we reported on first-time homebuyers, and how they are now at their lowest market share since 1987. That information came courtesy of the 2015 Profile of Home Buyers