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Like an avalanche growing larger as it tumbles down a mountain, agents are seeing swelling demand from buyers as mortgage interest rates plummet.

If you work in a hot market, you might need to create additional opportunities to help your clients compete — and for a variety of difficult buyer scenarios, bridge loans might be the perfect answer, creating more options and more leverage to get your clients back in the running during a complicated negotiation.

Watch Byron Lazine and Nicole White give a real estate agent’s perspective on industry-related topics. This week, they'll share their thoughts on Coldwell Banker's new logo. 

How many contacts are actually eager to hear from you? Unless you’re really putting thought into your client touches, that number is probably much lower than you’d hope for. Not to worry – here are four ways to get back on track with client touches with a little help in the form of simple CRM reminders.

Listen in for 1000watt's Marc Davison’s challenge around breaking paradigms in branding your real estate organization, and learn how your name, logo and messaging can work together (in harmony, of course) to articulate what’s important to you as a company.

Bay Area residents, property rights advocates and Flintstones fans are rallying in support of a Hillsborough, California, home derided by town officials as a public nuisance for its front-lawn collection of colorful dinosaur sculptures inspired by the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon.

Vail Resorts and Alterra Mountain Company are making real estate decisions based on the growing threat of climate change's impact on winter.

One day after the Real Trends 500 list of the top brokerages in the country was hacked and taken offline, Real Trends President Steve Murray warned the attackers "may still be lurking." On Thursday, the Real Trends 500 was back up and functioning.

Average 30-year fixed-rate mortgages declined by 22 basis points from 4.28 percent to 4.06 percent, resulting in the biggest single-week decline in rates since 2008, according to Freddie Mac's latest Primary Mortgage Survey released on Thursday.

Former NFL tight end Kellen Winslow Jr., a one-time powerhouse now accused of raping multiple women, has listed his property for $2.995 million.

A new partnership has united Chicago-based @properties, one of the largest real estate firms in the U.S. by transactions, with Georgia firm Ansley Atlanta.

Pending home sales dropped 1 percent from January to February and were down 4.9 percent year-over-year, according to the National Association of Realtors.

In a statement to Inman, NRT CEO Ryan Gorman declined to address the slide to No. 2 and instead focused on NRT retaining the top spot in sales volume.

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban development is charging Facebook with discrimination over its online advertising program.

Regular contributor and indie broker Troy Palmquist gives his service-oriented approach to arming agents with tech to compete against the big industry names that are gobbling up tech and services.

Is it time to regulate how Realtors use MLS data? The problem is that too many agents simply solicit property owners and have no knowledge of the property or neighborhood. They just see another potential lead. There’s much more to it.

First-time homebuyers drive the housing market, and the housing market is a critical driver of our overall economy. If a significant portion of first-time homebuyers choose to delay their purchase to accumulate extra cash to pay for their agent, sales would slow. The cascading economic ripple could be enormous.

Over time, a lot of the same rental deal-killers present themselves again and again. Here is a list of 10 common potential issues and how to handle them when they arise.

If you're thinking of purchasing a second home, you're not alone — owning a second home provides many homeowners with several benefits. Here are three of those benefits and a couple things to consider before diving into this type of investment.

Ron Peltier is enjoying HomeServices of America’s view from the top, but he's not spending too long taking it in. On Wednesday, the company spoiled NRT’s two-decade reign as the top real estate brokerage in the country in transaction sides — for the first time in Peltier’s tenure.