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A New Crisis Word – Forbearance

The new hot topic and ‘trigger-word’ in the coming months for the real estate and mortgage industry is the word Forbearance. The reason for the shift in the economic lexicon is due to the effects of the two historic hurricanes to hit the south: Harvey and Irma. It is...

Affordability, Inventory and DOM

As these figures prove, the inventory crisis, is no longer a crisis in the sense that we are expecting to see some relief in the not too distant future. Now, for the last nine consecutive quarters, inventory has fallen, on a national basis, and in New Jersey, has...

Tight Inventory Holding Market Back

And Speeding Up Time-To-Closing Nationally, U.S. home inventory has fallen 8.9% in the second quarter of 2017 from the same period in 2016. Domestically, inventory is 20% less than it was five years ago. Again, these figures are not an anomaly, as this trend has...

Real Estate Hashtags

Using hashtags can get you in front of those targeting specific niches. If you are going to use a Real Estate Hashtag, definitely hashtag your farm area, as in the case of Toms River, New Jersey - #TomsRiver and #TomsRiverNJ. By hashtagging a specific area, you are...

Possible Face-Off Between Zillow and Facebook

Facebook Launches New Real Estate Ad Platform This past week, Facebook announced that it launched its first ad product designed specifically for residential real estate brokerages. “Dynamic Ads for Real Estate,” first reported by real estate news site Inman News,...

Phishing Attacks Increase 65 Percent

Phishing Attacks Increase Dramatically Posing Threat to Businesses The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) found phishing attacks have been dramatically rising since 2004 with a 65% increase from 2015 to 2016. QUICK STATS ■ The number of cyber-attacks: 2004 - 1,609 ■...

July Ocean and Monmouth County Sales

OCEAN Single Family Ocean County July 2017 Metrics           2016     2017     Change New Listings  1,248    1,172       - 6.1% Closed Sales     680      631        - 7.2% Days to Close      82        76        - 7.3% Median Px      $280K $285K        + 1.8% % of Px...

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