Marketing for real estate agents Marketing is a crucial aspect of your business as a real estate agent. It’s how you reach potential clients, showcase your listings, and build your brand. In today’s digital age, there are countless ways to market your real estate business, but deciding which strategies to focus on can be overwhelming.   Here are the seven best strategies for your real estate marketing strategy. 1. Be authentic for your real estate business. In the world of real estate, authenticity is key. Potential clients want to work with genuine and transparent agents, so be yourself ..read more

Homebuilder confidence may still be higher than almost any time before the pandemic, but it’s now lower than any time since. We hope you enjoyed last week’s edition where we talked about Now More Than Ever In The Mortgage Industry, It’s Critical To Know Your KPIs. This week we’re bringing you: Mortgage Rates Moving Back Up Mortgage rates moved higher today at the fastest pace in 2 weeks. Part of the reason the size of the jump was the fact that rates have done quite well since hitting the last major high early last week. In other words, there was a bit of a rebound effect. The averag ..read more

As a business owner, would you rather work with an insurance broker who knows exactly what they’re doing, or an insurance broker who has quite a good idea about what they’re doing but wouldn’t call themselves an expert? Last week you were reading Global Semiconductor Chip Crunch Causing Headaches For Insurers. This week we’re bringing you: What "hasn't missed a beat" among insurance distributors? When the COVID-19 pandemic first landed in North America, insurance dealmakers slammed on their brakes. There was an immediate halt in mergers and acquisitions (M&A) because buyers and s ..read more

Where do we even begin the conversation about mortgage rates on any given day in the spring of 2022? We hope you enjoyed last week’s edition where we talked about Mortgage Delinquency Rate Reaches 23-Year Low. This week we’re bringing you: FHA adds 40-year loan term to COVID-19 arsenal The Federal Housing Administration told mortgage servicers that they can now offer a 40-year loan term as a COVID-19 recovery option. Servicers for FHA-insured mortgages can offer the modification immediately, according to the latest update to FHA’s mortgage lending policies. For now, only borrowers fi ..read more

Challenge after challenge is chipping away at the global semiconductor industry. Last week you were reading The Cost-Of-Living Crisis – What Impact Will It Have On Insurance? This week we’re bringing you: Cyber insurance is having its “seatbelt moment” IT WASN’T that long ago that cyberattacks were viewed by many as a distant threat best suited to the futuristic plots of sci-fi movies. Although many people were vaguely aware of their existence, little about them was understood. This perception of cyber security threats has altered over time, with both technology advances and world ev ..read more

Mortgage delinquency rates in January reached a 23-year low, driven by the skyrocketing housing prices and a strong job market. We hope you enjoyed last week’s edition where we talked about What Metaverse Real Estate Means For Mortgage Professionals. This week we’re bringing you: Streamlining subsidies to build more affordable housing Today’s housing affordability crisis stems largely from a lack of adequate housing supply. This is happening for a variety of reasons, from fallout from the 2008 Great Recession, restrictive local zoning policies and high land costs to labor and supply ..read more