CVAR’s COVID-19 Resources
REALTORS®: Updates & Guidelines
What’s Happening at CVAR under
COVID-19 restrictions
Latest COVID-19 Updates from C.A.R.
Citrus Valley Association of REALTORS® is conducting all business remotely. Meetings and classes presented by CVAR will be online and free of charge (see available classes below).
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Join Us July 30:
CVAR and 15 real estate associations have combined resources to bring nationally-known real estate professionals to our members at a low cost through the Real Estate REvive Virtual Conference this Thursday! Register Here
Valerie Alexander explains how to outsmart unconscious bias when it comes to your real estate deals!
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Online This Week at CVAR
• July 27 | CRMLS – MLS-Touch
• July 30 | Real Estate REvive Conference – Online!
• Aug. 3 | CRMLS – Matrix Searching 101
• Aug. 5 | Advanced 1031 Exchange with Phil Atwan
• Aug. 5 | The Rebound: Guest Jessie Beaudoin, CEO of CallAction
• Aug. 6 | CVAR Caravan – Aaron Norris, PropertyRadar
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Click here for full calendar of events on CVAR.net
REvive From Crisis This Week!
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What’s Next in Real Estate?
N.A.R. President Vince Malta will join other industry leaders, including a top economist, brokers, tech experts, and returning Host Leigh Brown, to talk about what’s next as we “REvive From Crisis.”
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Pros & Cons: Is It a Good Time to Buy?
Housing prices hold steady and even increase, in the face of the economic shutdown during the pandemic. Interest rates are at all-time lows. Is it a good time to buy? Consider the pros and cons.
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6 Trends for Quarter 3
The U.S. economy has experienced a record jump in unemployment, record-low mortgage rates and a whipsawing stock market. Here are six trends for the housing market in the third quarter of 2020:
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Rollback on Environmental Regulations
President Trump announced that he is rolling back Nixon-era National Environmental Policy Act regulations for how and when authorities must conduct environmental reviews, making it easier to build highways, pipelines, chemical and solar plants and other projects.
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Pocket Listing Suit – A federal district court has denied a bid from Top Agent Network, a firm that operates a members-only private group of real estate agents, to stop the National Association of REALTORS® from enforcing a policy designed to curtail pocket listings. The court’s order also bluntly stated that TAN is “unlikely to succeed” in arguing that NAR’s policy is anticompetitive. (Inman News)
Existing Homes – Sales rebounded at a record pace in June, showing strong signs of a market turnaround after three straight months of sales declines caused by the ongoing pandemic. Existing-home sales in the West ascended 31.9% to an annual rate of 950,000, a 13.6% decline from a year ago. The median price in the West was $432,600, up 5.4% from June 2019. (NAR)
IRS Refund – Use the “Where’s My Refund?” tool to start checking the status of your refund 24 hrs after the IRS acknowledges receipt of your e-filed tax return. Access the tool online or download the IR2Go app. (#IRS)
To check the status of your tax refund using “Where’s My Refund?,” you’ll need:
• Your Social Security number or Individual Taxpayer Identification Number
• Your tax filing status
• The exact amount of the refund you claimed
Citrus Valley Podcast
Hear top industry experts speak exclusively for CVAR, including Gov Hutchinson on showing property, insights from Brad Inman, Leigh Brown’s tips for jump-starting your business, Dan Smith interviews with industry leaders and much more, on the Citrus Valley REALTORS® Podcast!
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Did You Miss a Class?
New this week: Katie Lance, Phil “1031 Exchange” Atwan, and Dan Smith on The Rebound.
Check out CVAR’s archive of helpful and vital sessions, with some of the top speakers in the
real estate industry.
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California propositions, a new area code, updates on the Gold Line and the latest on the Glendora Public Market are included in the latest Cities Report compiled by CVAR Director of Government Affairs Bill Ruh.
With the pandemic pushing the industry toward self-showings, renters and property managers could be at an increased risk of falling prey to online scammers.
For the most part, the market improved from the previous month just as early readings had suggested, said Research Analyst Guillermo Flores. The Citrus Valley AOR report for the month of June is provided by C.A.R. researchers.
First-time homebuyers should understand some common misconceptions in the credit reporting industry as they go through the prequalification and preapproval process. Here’s how agents can dismantle the 5 myths.