Video: 3 reasons real estate agents are worth their 6% cut

Real estate agents still ‘very integral’ Wednesday, 26 Mar 2014 | 9:45 AM ET Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff gives three reasons why online housing data provided by his firm and others are not a substitute for agents. Even in this age of the Internet, real...

Vacation Home Tip Sheet

Here are 6 factors your clients need to consider when investing in a second home. While winter’s chill is still in the air, spring is just days away and vacation-home shoppers are itching to find their slice of paradise. Help your contacts understand the differences...

4 million renters want to buy. Can they?

As the housing market moves slowly into recovery, more and more Americans are gaining confidence and hoping to jump into home ownership. The home ownership rate has been dropping steadily since its high of 69.2 percent in 2004 to now just 65 percent. Millions lost...

Regional Trends: What Buyers Want Most—and Get

Median-price purchasers don’t expect kitchens fit for food stars, trickling waterfalls, or fire pits. But they dream, too, and here’s what’s on their wish lists. Sales are robust again in many markets across the country, with the national median...

America’s new Opportunity Cities

When the going gets tough, Americans move around. That’s been the pattern, at least, for much of the nation’s history, with workers heading for greener pastures when prospects near home dry up. The rate of “internal migration,” as such movement is called, has...