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With so much information readily available online, the sales pitch for creating a luxury listing's value proposition, one that's centered on the story and the lifestyle, has never been stronger, new Inman contributor Fritts Causby writes.

Star Compass agent and social media savant Andrew Jevin shares how agents can show up more authentically online.

ERA President Alex Vidal interviews award-winning broker-owner Mark Cenci about his decades in the business and the lessons he's learned.

Stop calling marketing materials “data,” Darryl Davis writes. Zillow's study is a position. Compass's survey responses are a position. Your CMA, with your local comps, on this home, is data.

Greg Hague pushes back on Mischa Fisher's opinion piece, outlining the ways he sees Zillow undermining transparency and affordability.

<p>More than three-quarters of buy-to-let landlords intend to refinance their property portfolios within the next year to fund additional acquisitions, according to research from specialist lender Together. The survey revealed that 76% of landlords are likely to refinance in the next 12 months, with...

<p>Planning reform will not be sufficient to meet government housebuilding targets unless ministers address viability challenges facing developers, according to property consultancy Colliers. Andrew White, head of UK residential at Colliers, has warned that the economics of residential development h...

Mortgage data breaches often expose decades of records. Notification deadlines increasingly run from discovery, so long delays can deepen legal and

Weekly pending sales increased to 75,935 versus 69,636, and purchase apps were up 7% year over year despite higher mortgage rates.

<p>England's social housing waiting lists would take 119 years to clear at current construction rates, according to research by Shelter. More than 1.3 million households are waiting for social homes, whilst only 12,198 were built last year.</p> <p>The post <a href="https://www.propertywire.com/news/...

Non-QM loans are unfairly stigmatized by the 2008 subprime crisis. Today's non-agency lending serves highly creditworthy, self-employed borrowers backed by strict Ability-to-Repay regulations and risk-retention rules.

Atlantic Bay Mortgage Group adopted EOS to strengthen alignment, accountability and issue resolution across mortgage banking functions. The CFO argues disciplined execution and clear priorities are a controllable competitive advantage when rates and markets shift.

If the Iran conflict lasts five to six more months, the peak mortgage rate could run 0.375% to 0.435% above 6.75% despite better spreads.

The best social media marketing, Jimmy Burgess writes, is coming from agents who have figured out how to create content that resonates with the people they actually want to serve.

<p>A National Audit Office report has disclosed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor received rental income from sub-letting three cottages on the Royal Lodge estate. The report also revealed that the King pays rent for accommodation occupied by Mountbatten-Windsor's daughters from his personal funds.</p...

<p>A group of northern Labour MPs is calling on Andy Burnham to replace Council Tax with a Land Value Tax, arguing the current system creates unfair burdens on lower-value properties in the North. The MPs claim Council Tax, based on 1991 property valuations, disproportionately affects northern resid...

<p>A property agent has been ordered to reimburse a buyer £575 in survey costs after failing to disclose that a property was of non-standard construction. The Property Ombudsman ruled that construction type constitutes material information that should have been made available to prospective buyers.<...

<p>LendInvest has completed a £3.51 million development finance facility for the conversion of a former NHS building in Bromley into 16 residential flats, closing the transaction in 6.5 weeks to meet contractual deadlines. The facility was structured at 65% loan-to-gross-development-value over an 18...

First-time homebuyers are being structurally locked out of the market by soaring income requirements and moving-target down payments. Because real estate operates as a chain of sequential transactions, this missing entry-level buyer is the root cause of today's frozen inventory and stalled volume.

A “poor man’s 1031 exchange” uses cost segregation and accelerated depreciation on a new purchase to offset taxable gains from a sale in the same year. The approach can defer taxes but is constrained by timing, passive loss rules, and depreciation recapture.