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AI Adds New Risks to Florida Deed Fraud
Florida property owners can take steps to guard against increasingly sophisticated deed fraud involving forged documents, deepfakes and voice cloning. Experts recommend monitoring property records, enrolling in county alert programs and considering owner’s title insurance.
Despite the recent slowdown, international buyers remain an important niche for many real estate professionals. Read more from NAR’s 2026 International Transactions in U.S. Residential Real Estate report.
Expand your reach with collaborative Instagram posts
Use Instagram's collaborative post feature to share a post across up to five different accounts. Unlike a regular tag, a collaborative post gives each account visible credit and combines engagement, allowing business partners to reach one another's audiences. Before posting, agree on the caption, visuals, timing and who will publish the original post. Collaborators must first accept the invitation, and then they will be listed as authors. The original creator retains control of the post and can end or remove the collaboration.
COVID housing trends that moved in to stay
Remember sourdough starters? While this pandemic-era trend faded away, a few others from 2020 stuck around, including buyers wanting space for home offices and being willing to commit to a home via virtual tours. In fact, 5% of homebuyers in the last month purchased a home physically sight-unseen using technology, says NAR Deputy Chief Economist Jessica Lautz.
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