SEATTLE, — Of the nation’s 100 largest metro areas, only a dozen are currently more affordablei than they historically have been for both renters and homeowners, as widespread growth in housing costs continues to outpace wage growth. Nationally, U.S. home values rose 6.5 percent year-over-year in July, according to the July Zillow® Real Estate Market […]
SAN FRANCISCO, — HotPads™, the leading map-based home and apartment rental search engine and a Zillow® (NASDAQ: Z) company, today announced it has redesigned its popular website and mobile apps to make the experience of searching for a rental faster and easier. With intuitive new features and tools, the HotPads app and search engine allow […]
MCLEAN, VA– – Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) released today its U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook for August showing the country getting back to a more normalized economy, and therefore expecting to see housing driven once again by fundamentals. The complete August 2014 U.S. Economic and Housing Market Outlook and forecast table are available here. […]
WASHINGTON, DC – Americans’ attitudes toward the housing market remain mixed, although a steady improvement in their personal financial outlook may bode well for housing in the coming months, according to results from Fannie Mae’s July 2014 National Housing Survey. “The continued cautious sentiment expressed across the range of consumer indicators this month gives weight […]
MADISON, N.J., – Prudential Real Estate Investors and Kauri CAB Management GmbH today announced the successful sale of a portfolio of 25 residential ‘Altbau’ buildings located within the S-Bahn ring of Berlin for €78.6 million, or about $105 million. PREI® is the real estate investment and advisory business of Prudential Financial, Inc. (NYSE:PRU). The portfolio, […]
MORGANTOWN, W.Va., — ListHub, the nation’s leading listing syndicator and centralized intelligence platform for the real estate industry, today announces a new relationship with the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) to guide Realtors® in maximizing their opportunities in the global real estate marketplace. The agreement provides real estate professionals with best-in-class international listing distribution and […]
SEATTLE and VANCOUVER, British Columbia, — Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ:Z), the leading real estate and home-related marketplace, today announced it has acquired Vancouver, BC -based Retsly™, a software company that normalizes real estate data from multiple listing services so developers can build data-driven products for the real estate industry. The company also provides MLSs with the […]
SEATTLE, — Zillow, Inc. (NASDAQ: Z), the leading real estate information marketplace, today announced the Northwest Minnesota Association of Realtors has joined the Zillow® Partnership Platform. The Zillow Partnership Platform enables MLS data to be sent directly to Zillow as often as every 15 minutes, ensuring that current, active listings always are up to date, […]
MADISON, N.J. — Century 21 Real Estate LLC, today announced that more CENTURY 21® affiliated real estate professionals are represented in the National Association of Hispanic Real Estate Professionals’ (NAHREP) Top 250 Latino Real Estate Agents list than any other national franchise brand. In all, the CENTURY 21 brand had three of the top 5 […]
Wells Fargo, NeighborWorks America® and Neighborhood Housing Services of Kansas City, today joined Kansas City, Mo. Mayor Sly James to announce the Kansas City, Mo. Wells Fargo NeighborhoodLIFT® program, an initiative offering $6.65 million from Wells Fargo to boost homeownership and strengthen neighborhoods in the city’s low- and moderate-income areas. “This public-private partnership will make […]
