The national median home value has careened to over $200,000 for the first time, with a 7.4 percent annual gain rocketing it to a new high of $200,400, according to the Zillow Home Value Index (ZHVI) in the June Zillow® Real Estate Market Reports. Values in 10 of the 35 major metropolitan areas assessed by […] The post Homes Have Never Been More Valuable Than They Are Now appeared first on RISMedia. […]

The National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) Power Broker Roundtable this month discusses the advantages of and caveats about real estate agent teams. Moderator: Robert Bailey, Broker/Owner, Bailey Properties, Santa Cruz, Calif.; Liaison for Large Residential Firm Relations, NAR Panelists: Alex Milshteyn, Team Leader, Real Estate Associates, Coldwell Banker Weir Manuel Real Estate, Ann Arbor, Mich. […] The post Agent Teams: Are They for Everyone? appeared first on RISMedia. […]

Affording a mortgage payment is possible for many prospective homeowners. Why then, by all accounts, is unaffordability plaguing the market? Researchers at Freddie Mac offered several takes on the answer in its latest Insight, suggesting that homebuyers having a hard time finding reasonably-priced listings are perceiving homes as unaffordable—a view that appears largely based in […] The post Freddie: What Feeds the Affordability Perception? appeared first on RISMedia. […]