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Realty News USA – Looking at the seller’s idea of value

Real estate professionals are in an unusual position in the service industry – it’s hard to reconcile the old saying that “the customer is always right” with a job description that involves educating these same customers. In particular, listing agents often run into prospective sellers who have an unrealistic view of what their homes are […]

ReboReports @ C.A.R. Expo – GeoAssurance

We here at Benutech share a love of data with the folks over at GeoAssurance who provide natural hazard reports for the real estate industry, and we work with them whenever we have the chance, so we’re excited to introduce you to them as part of our CAR 2014 Expo interview series. (For a taste of Ralph's expertise and enthusiasm for geo-data, check out the video he recorded for us a while back on floods)

Overall trends in the real estate industry

Year in and year out, the real estate market changes, from the glut of foreclosures a few years back, to the tight inventory we’re currently seeing. These long-term changes can be dramatic, and hard to anticipate. However, there are other more predictable (albeit smaller) cycles in the real estate industry, cycles linked with the calendar […]