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Two Miami high schools named among best in the nation

U.S. News & World Report has been the gold standard for educational rankings for more than three decades, and in its 2016 “Best High Schools” list, Miami’s Design and Architecture Senior High and International Studies Charter High School both

Greater Miami’s best school districts: the latest rankings

Martin County School District is the best school district Greater Miami, according to educational rankings and review site Niche. Real estate agents should take note. Evaluating on criteria including academics, teacher performance, available resources and the quality of the schools’ facilities

This Miami market is a ‘boom town’ in 2016

Miami’s 33132 ZIP code, which includes Midtown, Seaport and the city’s downtown, is one of America’s top residential boom towns, according to a new study by realtor.com. The analysis – which looked at job growth, household formations and housing

Dateline takes on Realtor safety

In September 2014, Arkansas police discovered the body of Beverly Carter, a Crye-Leike Realtor, in a shallow roadside grave. On Sunday, NBC’s Dateline will dive into the story and once again remind the industry that agent safety is a

Extreme highs and lows in Miami: Prices jump 150% in one Miami Beach neighborhood

Douglas Elliman released its quarterly market overview this week, and the findings describe a Miami-area market fraught with extreme ups (i.e. 150-plus percent year-over-year increase in home price in Fisher Island) and extreme downs (65 percent sales decrease in

Avatar Real Estate Services welcomes Dezurey Garcia to their South Miami Office

Avatar Real Estate Services announced that Dezurey Garcia has joined its South Miami office. Garcia is a Babson college graduate with experience in real estate research analysis and property management. Garcia’s experience in these fields, along with her fluency

Protect your clients – avoid 3 common TRID mistakes

In a letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Director Richard Cordray written by the Association of Mortgage Investors, the group’s executive director, Chris Katopis, calls out TRID as being “well intentioned” but described an atmosphere of “legal uncertainty”

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Why homebuyers are migrating to Miami and other Sunbelt cities

Miami experienced the seventh-largest population growth in the nation in 2015, according to Census estimates. From 2014 to 2015, the Miami area’s population grew from 5.937 million to 6.012, which was a 1.3 percent increase. The city’s change in population was larger than

New MIAMI partnership offers more international opportunities for agents

Miami Realtors have a new way to interact with their MLS; the result of a new partnership between the Miami Association of Realtors and RESAAS Services Inc., a cloud-based social platform for the real estate services industry. Earlier this

Miami’s luxury housing market is heating up

Miami has one of the busiest luxury housing markets in the country, according to the new Luxury Market Report from Coldwell Banker Previews International. In 2015, Previews reported, sales of homes priced $5 million and above totaled 43 in Miami. That was

4 ways homebuyers’ buying power has improved

Bankrate’s latest Financial Security Index offers up good news There are many studies that look into how Americans spend money, but agents should take note of a new Bankrate Financial Security Index, which measures American consumers’ confidence in the market, their net

Marlins Park helping to create buying opportunity in Little Havana

Baseball may not enjoy the same status it had in its glory days as the country’s greatest pastime, but in many places it remains as a significant influence on real estate. Well, its stadiums do. A new report from real

Good news for Miami’s spring sellers in new CoreLogic report

Home prices around the country are feeling the Spring season bump. According to a new report from CoreLogic, prices rose 6.8 percent year-over-year in February. At a state level, the gains were universal. “Home prices continue to rise across

Why two-thirds of real estate investors will spend more in 2016

In a new report on its 2016 Real Estate Outlook survey, KPMG found that many real estate investors are still confident in the market’s ability to produce returns, though some have found reason to temper that optimism with caution. On

5 reasons why 2016 is the “Best year for housing in a decade”

Forget what you thought you knew about the housing market – according to Freddie Mac, 2016’s housing market will see a return to pre-crisis levels. In the year following the recovery surge of 2014, the market slowed – a result

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