Aspiring homeowners may have a less fraught experience shopping for a property as rate fluctuations calm, says NAR’s deputy chief economist.

Shortcuts can make work faster, but often come up short, so sales professionals should focus on doing the work of connecting with customers and offer value instead, writes David Brock. "We are most productive and impactful, when we look at the buying/selling process from end to end, maximizing our effectiveness and impact across the entire process," Brock notes.

A growing number of marketing and ad teams are using the contextual information provided by metadata to target audiences ahead of the deprecation of cookies. Limitations persist on metadata targeting for connected television, but experts say the strategy can provide more precise and quantitative targeting in some circumstances.

Ranging in price from $13.9 million to $900,000 these Washington, D.C., properties offer homebuyers great views of the city.

Virtual tours have gained popularity in real estate, travel, and cultural exploration, offering a realistic and immersive way to experience different locations digitally. To create a virtual tour, it's crucial to plan its structure, select high-quality equipment such as a 360-degree camera, and capture detailed 360-degree images.

REALTOR® Oral Lee Brown, one of the first Good Neighbor Award winners, is still expanding her mission to mentor children out of poverty.

Protect your brand on social media by monitoring customer comments, training workers on handling responses, interacting with customers who provide valuable feedback, and planning ahead for a potential public-relations crisis from a bad review online. One strategy is responding to the comment online but then privately contacting the customer to fix any problems.

The financial health of the US is robust overall, but prosperity is uneven, and many segments of the population are struggling to stay afloat financially, the Financial Times editorial board writes. The most affluent Americans are driving consumer spending, the pace of inflation varies from state to state, and the rate of new delinquencies among lower-income credit card borrowers is higher than before the pandemic.

Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta President Raphael Bostic has suggested that the Fed consider only one interest-rate cut in 2024, toward the end of the year, citing inflation concerns. "If the economy evolves as I expect, and that's going to be seeing continued robustness in GDP, unemployment and a slow decline of inflation through the course of the year, I think it would be appropriate for us to do start moving down at the end of this year, the fourth quarter," Bostic says. "We'll just have to see where the data come in."