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February 16, 2023
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Best Practices in Sales & Marketing
Despite the benefits of having a DEI policy for your business, it can be tiring to implement intentionally and consistently. This endeavor—especially if it's new to you—takes constant effort and courage.
Full Story: REALTOR® Magazine/The Lounge (2/10) 
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Customer complaints that are handled with empathy and follow-up can turn into long-term client relationships. Here are five ways to handle unhappy clients, from a developing a scalable process to practicing specific scenarios.
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Instagram led 2022's rank for social media app installations, and people downloaded it 72 million times, Apptopia reports. Although TikTok had 672 million downloads globally, Apptopia puts it in the entertainment category rather than the social media list.
Full Story: Insider Intelligence (2/14) 
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Real Estate Trends
Keep a watchful eye on these changes happening in the market now, which could have both positive and negative repercussions for home sales.
Full Story: REALTOR® Magazine (1/25) 
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A survey by the Mortgage Bankers Association, released in the wake of the January consumer price index report, showed that mortgage application volume last week decreased 7.7% compared with the previous week. Refinancing applications fell 13% while mortgage applications declined by 6%.
Full Story: CNBC (2/15),  Fox Business (2/15) 
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Pueblo or adobe homes are a hallmark of the American Southwest due to their practicality. "It still continues to be a very popular style of architecture today," says Steven Moffson of the State Historic Preservation Office in Santa Fe, N.M.
Full Story: The Wall Street Journal (2/15) 
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Technology & Innovations
The new Center for Artificial Intelligence in Business Analytics and FinTech at Columbia University will focus on using artificial intelligence and data science in finance and real estate. The center will collaborate with businesses to develop software and analytics to predict investment decisions and market behavior.
Full Story: GlobeSt (free registration) (2/13) 
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Business Wellness
At the peak of COVID-19, owners and managers of multifamily housing took steps for residents to socially distance without feeling isolated. These five lessons will help residents feel less anxious if another variant or health challenge emerges.
Full Story: REALTOR® Magazine/Create (12/27) 
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Fair & Equitable Housing
Minneapolis is incentivizing the development of affordable rental housing in response to widespread demand. "The income inequality and the separation between the haves and have-nots, and the rising price of housing is pushing a lot of people into deeply affordable housing," developer David Wellington says.
Full Story: Star Tribune (Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minn.) (tiered subscription model) (2/15) 
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Legislation & Regulation
Retail sales including food and fuel increased 3% in January from December, according to the Census Bureau, indicating that consumers are still willing to spend on discretionary items despite inflation. This and other recent economic data could prompt the Federal Reserve to maintain a tight monetary policy, with Oren Klachkin of Oxford Economics commenting: "For the Fed, these data are supportive of their view that additional rate hikes are needed to cool the economy and bring the inflation down to 2%."
Full Story: Financial Times (subscription required) (2/15) 
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