Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! |
|
|
Traditional Realtors Becoming Blockbuster in a Netflix World? One Court Case to Watch Closely... After moving eight times as her husband's job transferred them around the world, Lindy Chapman felt she knew a thing or two about selling real estate.Unlike her first home purchases, by 2015 she could do most of the initial research online, narrowing her home search to a few contenders before even bothering with a Realtor. Plenty of agents, it seemed to her, no longer did enough work to justify the traditional 6% commission: 3% on the seller's side, and another 3% for the buyer's agent.... | | |
|
|
| | A Guide to Real Estate in the World's Most Expensive Market It seems like everybody wants to move to Monaco right now - everybody who is super rich, that is. Real estate in the sunny principality on France’s Mediterranean coast is experiencing a surge in demand. Last year, home prices in the city-state’s secondary market rose to €48,800 per square meter ($4,560 per square foot), an 18.1% increase from 2017. The value of total transactions came to €2.7 billion, according to Monaco’s statistics office... | | |
|
| | The Chinese Purchase More US Real Estate Than Buyers From Any Other Country The trade dispute between the US and China reached a fever point in recent days, as Washington and Beijing have gone tit for tat in imposing higher tariffs on imports. Concerns that the two countries would not resolve the dispute sent the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.84% and the S&P 500 SPX, +0.89% reeling Monday, before staging modest rebounds Tuesday and Wednesday. Chinese investors have been the biggest purchasers of U.S. residential real estate for six consecutive years, but President Trump’s trade war, and China’s efforts to reduce its national debt and boost economic growth, could change that.... | | |
|
|
|
|
