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REALTORS: Focus on Growing your Business

Your Online Real Estate Broker EARN MORE INCOME AND GROW YOUR BUSINESS!iPro Real Estate empowers your business with a powerful systemSome of our benefits include:AN ONLINE AGENT PROFILE SYSTEMFREE CLIENT LEADSFREE CUSTOM WEBSITESOPHISTICATED ONLINE TRANSACTION MANAGEMENT24/7 BROKER SUPPORTQUALITY TRAINING RESOURCESAND MUCH MORE!Join The Team!Visit our Careers Page | Join us on Facebook | Follow us on TwitterREFERRAL PROGRAM: Everybody that refer

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Congratulations Brett Dalbeth with closing 30116 Hillside Ter, San Juan Capistrano, CA - $1.8mil!

For more details of the sale go to:http://www.iprore.com/search/#&PerformSearch&MlsNumbers=OC16738666Brett has been the top producer in sale volume for the 3 past consecutive years now with 59 closed transactions totaling $15,376,511.Brett can be contacted at www.lagunaagent.com.For more information on becoming a salesperson with iPro see careers.iprore.com. 

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Home Prices Are Soaring to New Highs

Home price appreciation picked up speed in the final three months of 2016, prompting the majority of metro areas to soar to new record highs with home prices, the National Association of REALTORS®’ latest quarterly report reveals. Of the 150 markets NAR has tracked since 2005, 52 percent – or 78 – now have a median sales price that is at or above its previous all-time high.The fourth quarter of 2016 proved to be a strong one for home price

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Equity-Rich Properties Rise By 1.3M in 1 Year

The equity picture is looking brighter for homeowners. At the end of 2016, there were 13.9 million U.S. properties – or nearly 25 percent of the housing stock with a mortgage -- that were considered equity rich, according to ATTOM Data Solutions.Equity rich is when the loan on the property is 50 percent or less of the property’s estimated market value. The number of equity-rich properties has grown by 1.3 million homes compared to a year ago.

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10 Top Rental Markets for Investors

Atlanta is HomeUnion’s latest top pick as the market that could offer the best opportunities for single-family rental investors. Home prices in Atlanta have yet to recover as solidly as other markets so investors there are more likely to jump in at a lower cost, yet still be able to charge higher rents due to demand from the metro’s growing job market, notes HomeUnion, a single-family-rental acquisition and management company."Atlanta has mov

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3 Commercial Real Estate Trends to Watch

As businesses evolve in the digital era, it’s affecting their needs when it comes to physical space in commercial properties. Broker-owners of commercial firms should take note of three trends Transwestern recently highlighted in its first quarter Insights report covering the retail, industrial, and multifamily sectors.1. Retail: The Rise of Mobile DataRetailers are getting more sophisticated in how they’re collecting mobile data about their

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Here Come 59 Million Buyers!

One in four U.S. adults say they are considering buying a home this year, which extrapolates to a whopping 59 million people, according to a recent survey by Bankrate.com.Minorities are expected to be big buyers this year. More than two in five black survey respondents said they were considering buying a home. That is more than double the percentage of potential white buyers.“Black homeowners were harmed in greater numbers by the housing crashâ

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From Boom to Bust? Farmlands Are In Trouble

Many farmers are facing higher debt as a multiyear drop in prices for corn, wheat, and other commodities plagues on. That is pushing more farmers out of business. The Farm Belt will soon have fewer than 2 million farms, the lowest in years.Still, economists aren’t predicting the crisis to be as severe as the one that struck the Farm Belt in the 1980s, in which farmland values plummeted and interest rates soared.Economists expect farmland values

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Top 10 Moving Destinations in the U.S.

Atlanta, Ga., was the top moving destination in the U.S. for 2016, according to a newly released study by Penske Truck Rental, which reflects the company’s one-way rental truck data. Atlanta has claimed the top spot for the past seven years. Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas, continues to increase in moves, however.Take a look at the chart below to view the top moving destinations in the U.S.Source: Penske Truck Rental

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Consumers Take Rosier Attitude to Housing

More Americans are showing optimism toward their personal finances and the housing market, a reversal to a five-month decline in Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index.In particular, Americans are more upbeat about home prices, home selling, their rising household incomes, and they’re less scared about losing their jobs, according to Fannie Mae’s Home Purchase Sentiment Index, a survey of 1,000 Americans in January about their attitudes

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