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Exit 2 off the Palisades Parkway.
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Is It Better to Rent or Buy?
Whether to buy or rent a home is among the biggest financial decisions most buyers make. It is basically a complex math problem in which the reward for getting it right can be tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars - and the punishment for getting it wrong similarly enormous.
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The American Dream is Alive and Well, but Will the Starter Home Survive?
Achieving the American Dream conventionally involved acquiring a starter home-purchasing a house for life led now, with the intention to trade up to a home that meets needs in the future.The Dream's alive and well. Starter homes? Hardly.
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NARs 2016 Profile of International Activity in U.S. Residential Real Estate
The 2016 report shows that Foreign Buyers spent $102.6 billion in US properties last year and that the dollar volume from Chinese buyers exceeded that of the next top four countries combined.
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5 ways U.S. and global markets are rethinking Brexit
After a two-day spree of near panic selling that wiped out an unprecedented $3 trillion from global markets, investors, analysts and pundits in the U.S. and abroad spent the week following the vote collectively revising their knee-jerk reactions to what has become known as the "Brexit" vote.
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N.J. puts brakes on road projects
Work at hundreds of construction sites across New Jersey, including 165 sites in Bergen and Passaic counties, will grind to a halt at 11:59 p.m. Friday because of the continued failure by Governor Christie and state legislators to find money for transportation projects, acting Gov. Kim Guadagno said Wednesday. The projects will be closed for "at least seven days," Guadagno said.
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Edgewater Superfund work to start in fall
Preliminary work on a $78 million project that would entomb a century's worth of underground pollution at the Quanta Superfund site will begin in late September.The start date comes almost five years after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the controversial plan to keep tons of coal tar, PCBs, arsenic and other contaminants at the 5 1/2-acre site off River Road instead of removing them, as many residents wanted.
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NAR Testifies on Flood Insurance
On June 30, 2016, Vice Chair David McKey of NAR's Insurance Committee testified on the small business impacts of inaccurate flood insurance rate increases. The National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) is up for renewal next year, and must be reauthorized before September 30, 2017 in order to continue providing flood insurance in 22,000 communities nationwide where required for a federally related mortgage.
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Buyer Education and Counseling Is Homeownership Cornerstone, New Study Says
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) recently published early findings from a rigorous, large-scale, random assignment study on the benefits that housing education and counseling provides to first-time homebuyers.
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The Senate has returned to DC after their holiday break and
we have less than two weeks to get them to act.
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4 technologies changing real estate in 2016
Advancements in technology will aid in real estate professionals' efforts to sell homes more than they are aware.
If you want to give your real estate business the best chance at realizing its potential, you need to implement the latest technological trends.
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Why Snapchat Is Pure Gold for REALTORS®
There is a huge amount of attention being paid to Snapchat in real estate right now, and rightfully so. While the buzz can be overwhelming, there are tons of important reasons why REALTORS® should jump on Snapchat.
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