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To find out, HSH.com took the National Association of Realtors’ 2013 first quarter data for median home prices as well as our 2013 first quarter average interest rates for 30-year, fixed-rate mortgages to decipher how much money homebuyers in 25 major metros would need to earn in order to purchase the median-priced home in their market. Delete the scoop?
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This morning, we kicked off the 6th annual Google I/O developer conference with over 6,000 developers at Moscone Center in San Francisco, 460 I/O Extended sites in 90 countries, and millions of you around the world who tuned in via our livestream. Over the next three days, we’ll be hosting technical sessions, hands-on code labs, and demonstrations of Google's products and partners' technology. Delete the scoop?
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Single-family building permits jumped 27% in the first quarter year-over-year, marking the highest first-quarter total since 2008. Conversely, foreclosure starts in the U.S. Delete the scoop?
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CoreLogic released an analysis of home price trends in more than 380 U.S. markets based on the CoreLogic Case-Shiller Indexes. The indexes are owned and generated by CoreLogic, supplemented with data from the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA). Delete the scoop?
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As the housing market recovers, developers are placing bids on the site of the former Chicago Spire condominium property, which was once planned to be the tallest building in North America, but delayed due to construction. According to people who are familiar with the bidding, Ireland’s National Asset Management Agency (NAMA) received a half-dozen offers in the initial round of bidding for about $93 million in debt it holds on the property. Delete the scoop?
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Within this prestigious group, Leading Real Estate Companies of the World® members represented 13 of the top 25 brokerage firms in the U.S. and produced 27% of the total sales of the top 500 companies, compared to 20% by its closest competitor.
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I'm not quite sure who their competitor would be? NRT? Realty Alliance? Delete the scoop?
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Leaders of the National Association of Realtors are “ready to get into trouble” by considering controversial issues surrounding the trade group’s structure — including changing its relationship to realtor.com, the possibility of a national multiple listing service, and raising the industry’s professional standards, NAR CEO Dale Stinton said today. Delete the scoop?
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The app aims to bring realtor.com, which is operated by Move Inc., up to speed with competitors Trulia and Zillow. Zillow launched a rental app for Android in April 2012, and a version for iPhone later that year in September. Trulia released an Android rental app in 2011, and added an iPhone version in April 2012. Delete the scoop?
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Michael Pierson and Chris Eigel, principals of the prestigious Chicago -area real estate firm Prudential Rubloff Properties, have appointed Taylor Lindstrom, a Wilmette resident, to the position of managing broker of the firm’s Winnetka office... Delete the scoop?
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Broker associates at Buffalo Grove's RE/MAX Experts received special recognition from the RE/MAX Northern Illinois region for their sales success in 2012. Delete the scoop?
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Fueled by high demand and tight inventory, California home sales and prices both experienced strong increases in April, with the median price surpassing the $400,000-mark for the first time in five years, the CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® (C.A.R.) reported. 
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May 20, 11:49 PM
Good news for California’s economy. Housing sales and prices increased dramatically for the month of April. It has been the first time since 2008 that “the median price has surpassed $400,000.” Interest rates for mortgages have dropped from March’s 3.57% to 3.45% for April. I would imply from all of this and other factors that our economy is starting to pick itself back up considering that California has a huge economy and is expensive to live in. We need the momentum that California has to help the nation recover as a whole. I would also imply that unemployment has dropped in California, though I could not say because it doesn’t say in the article. Delete the scoop?
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Image recognition firm Facebanx is introducing webcam identity verification for online insurance sites banks commerce and gambling. Delete the scoop?
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The Ohio Supreme Court has ruled that servicing a residential mortgage does not constitute a “consumer transaction” as defined by state law, a ruling that consumer groups and attorneys say eliminates a protection for homeowners trying to save their... Delete the scoop?
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![[Infographic] In a Mobile World Customer Reviews Matter More Than Ever Before | Real Estate Plus+ | Scoop.it](http://img.scoop.it/uFMtZXl6Afc40JdwnZ-V-jl72eJkfbmt4t8yenImKBVaiQDB_Rd1H6kmuBWtceBJ)
What that mobile world has created, however, is a brave new world for the consumer who now wields more power than ever. That power comes mostly in the form of reviews of a business’ products and services. It all leads to a customer who can voice great joy or great dissatisfaction with a business and that is power. Delete the scoop?
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But the craziest thing that Google introduced just might be a product that no one onstage in the three-hour keynote ever mentioned, or even hinted at. The announcement? It turns out that you can now attach money to your email using Gmail. Delete the scoop?
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Google has revamped its key products and services, including Google Maps, further improved its social network Google+, and also released a streaming music service called Google Music All Access. Delete the scoop?
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Builder confidence at all levels of the homebuilding industry showed some of its strongest numbers in years in May, with both the Housing Market Index and the 55+ single-family Housing Market Index increasing. The indices, both of which are measured and released by the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB), reflected new levels of homebuilder optimism and greater interest from homebuyers. Delete the scoop?
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It's a good thing I'm not a jargon police officer. If I were, I'd send out arrest warrants, fines, citations -- anything I could to get people to ditch certain trite words and phrases.
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I don't think we will be pushing the envelope of any paradigm shifting with this synergistic list, so let's put it to bed. Delete the scoop?
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What started out as a proposed rule change to allow multiple listing services and Realtor associations to charge members for providing lockboxes as a “basic” service — regardless of whether they used them or not — has morphed into a broader debate over the role of MLSs. Delete the scoop?
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Realtor.com®, operated by Move, Inc. (NASDAQ: MOVE), and Xceligent, Inc., a leading provider of proactively researched commercial real estate information and marketing, today announced a strategic agreement to launch enhanced commercial search functionality on realtor.com® the official website of the National Association of REALTORS®. Delete the scoop?
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Cartavi, a Naperville-based startup that makes real estate software, has been acquired by DocuSign, an electronic signature technology company. Delete the scoop?
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his month's CoStar Commercial Repeat Sale Indices (CCRSI) provide the market's first look at March 2013 commercial real estate pricing. Based on 1,062 repeat sales in March 2013 and more than 100,000 repeat sales since 1996, the CCRSI offers the broadest measure of commercial real estate repeat sales activity. Delete the scoop?
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Along with its economic findings, NAR's 2012 Member Profile also offered great insight into the demographics of today's Realtors – including median age.
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And I think most of them are in Chicago. :-) Delete the scoop?
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How using women as entertainment at professional events hurts brands' efforts to speak to what is arguably their most important demographic. Delete the scoop?
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A continued decline in the federal budget deficit this year is resulting in a better than expected fiscal forecast for 2013 from the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office. Delete the scoop?
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