Inman News

18 October 2024

Real Estate News for Realtors and Brokers
  • Strong economy may prop up home prices, mortgage rates
    Fannie Mae economists say surprising strength of the U.S. economy means home prices are likely to keep rising, and mortgage rates may not come down as quickly as previously expected.
  • Floyd Mayweather Jr. to acquire $402M Black Spruce portfolio
    The deal, one of the city’s largest this year, involves 1,000 units and more than 60 buildings across Upper Manhattan in New York City. Part of the portfolio closed Wednesday, according to reports.
  • Zillow CEO: It’s ‘obvious’ private listing networks harm consumers
    Have no doubt — Zillow is on the side of Clear Cooperation. That's the message Zillow CEO Jeremy Wacksman delivered on the latest episode of real estate strategist Mike DelPrete's Context podcast, where the two thought leaders talked about Zillow's evolving Housing Super App and raising consumer awareness about Zillow's mortgage and rental businesses alongside the industry's latest hot-button topic.

 DavidFreitagMy report this month will sound like a travel log as I have been away from the office for meetings for both NAR and OAR plus Golf outings for our Board plus the Howard Hanna Coo-Coo, Chow-Chow outing.

• On July 20th thru the 22nd I attended the OAR CEO Symposium in Columbus. This annual meeting is a planning meeting for local board Presidents and AE's to meet with their peers and OAR officers. The meeting started with a presentation from Coach Jackie Leavenworth on leadership skills for incoming presidents. The meeting allows time for the leaders from across the state to get to know each other and to have the OAR officers get to know local Board Presidents. We had a presentation from Gavin Blair, CEO of the Dayton Board on the upcoming NAR core standards. Gavin is a member of the PAG working on the standards. We had a legal briefing from OAR council Peg Ritenour

• The 24th thru 29th I took some time off
• 30th thru 4 in office
• 5th was the 2nd annual Bob Strayer Memorial Classic golf outing. We had a good turn out and our sponsorships were up this year.

• The evening of the 5th I traveled to Detroit to catch a flight to Atlanta for the NAR Broker Summit. The 2 day summit was well organized and set up to keep expenses to a minimum. This was the second annual event and covered many topics on issues facing Brokers and Associations / MLS in the marketplace of today. The event was sold out and the meeting agenda was filled with both speakers and breakout roundtable discussion groups. The exchange of information was good between both large and smaller size Associations and Brokers.
• I returned to the office on the 8th to catch up on issues.
• On the 11th I played in the Howard Hanna Cho- Cho, Chow-Chow along with Phillip, Frank, and D J. This event is well attended by both local and corporate Howard Hanna team members. Our team was the winner of the event.
• On the 13th we held a MLS class followed by a new member orientation class. The class went well and I think that we have made progress in this area of our training for new members.
• On Sunday the 17th I traveled with President-Elect Corder to the NAR Leadership Meeting in Chicago. This annual event one of the most important meeting of the year as it allows the incoming President to hear first-hand the agenda that NAR will be planning for the following year.

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While NAR works hard to remind REALTORS® about the importance of safety all year long, what about their clients?  Join NAR for:

 Safety Tips to Share with Sellers

Tuesday, September 9, 2014

2:00 pm EST

Sergeant Preston Taylor will offer advise on how home owners can safeguard their home, personal property and their personal information while opening their house to potential buyers.  He'll also discuss what a real estate agent is liable for during open houses and showings.  SPACE IS LIMITED

 Register today at REALTOR.org/safety

 

 Here's How to Log into the MLS

On May 28, 2014, the www.firelandsmls.com and www.faor.com websites were redirected to the new Firelands Association of REALTORS® member website at firelandsmls.com. FAOR participants and subscribers with MLS access can login and access their FAOR MLS page, just like they would on the old site. To do so, simply by click on the Login button at the top, right-hand corner of this page.

 Members use their normal Agent ID and Password. Once logged in, members will see a number of buttons on the main page where it is possible to SSO into the FAORMLS, and other SSO destinations. You will also see buttons to pay your bill online and to update your member profile. Click the Read More button to see step-by-step instructions on how to login to theFAORMLS from the member website.

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committee3The Firelands Association of REALTORS is a professional trade association of over 500 licensed real estate agents.

Our members abide by a strict code of ethics and have access to a wide variety of business services that are not available to non-REALTORS. This gives them a competitive edge in the marketplace, enabling them to provide superior services to buyers and sellers of real property.

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