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What Changes Are Permanent?

November 9, 2020

Amid all the uncertainty brought on by COVID-19 over the past six months, one thing is assured: the pandemic has re-ordered real estate markets across the board on an unprecedented scale. Some of this may be irreversible.  Thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, we don’t know if people will feel safer living in the south and […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Industry News Tagged With: amenities, CoStar, COVID, culture, Education, Forbes, Housing market, Pandemic, Realtor.com, Zillow

8 Housing Trends Emerging From Pandemic

October 26, 2020

Some housing trends will accelerate, some will come to a halt, and some will spawn entirely new areas of growth because of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to experts at the Urban Land Institute’s virtual fall conference on Oct. 15. For example, the migration from cities to suburbs, which millennials led prior to the pandemic, has […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Industry News, Pro Tips Tagged With: conference, Pandemic, Trends, Urban Land Institute

IE Double the Late Payers

October 5, 2020

In Riverside and San Bernardino counties, 336,000 adults live in households that are behind on rent due at the end of August, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That’s 30% of all Inland Empire tenants and almost twice the rate in Los Angeles and Orange counties where 537,000 who live in rentals were late payers […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Government Affairs Tagged With: Eviction, Inland Empire, Pandemic, past-due, rent, tenants, unemployment

Buyers Ready to Trade Up!

September 14, 2020

Households happy with their homes before the pandemic have grappled with the compromises they made during the home shopping process. That has sparked a wave of buyers emerging as stay-at-home restrictions lifted—and many of those households have decided to trade up. Prior to the pandemic, house hunters were focused on amenities such as granite countertops, […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Industry News, Pro Tips Tagged With: amenities, COVID, cvarconnect, floorplan, house hunter, Pandemic, square footage, stay-at-home, trade up

REALTOR® COVID Updates

August 31, 2020

The Headlines: • CA Stimulus • Small Business PPP • Latest COVID News • DRE Exams (See DRE News below) • Real Estate Showings – *See restrictions below Stimulus – Gov. Newsom and legislative leaders announced Wednesday they have agreed to provide low-income Californians with a $600 state stimulus payment to help them weather financial […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Government Affairs, Pro Tips Tagged With: By county, COVID, COVID Report, cvarconnect, Pandemic, PEAD, Showing Guidelines

10 False Buyer Beliefs to Debunk

August 31, 2020

When buyers first walk through the door, they bring in a lot of false truths. Here are 10 commonly held beliefs that agents may have to debunk. 1. My family member has a real estate license — they will help me Perhaps you can gracefully convey to your clients that the odds of their success […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Pro Tips Tagged With: agency relationship form, cvarconnect, financing, Form AD, Inman News, inspection, Pandemic, Zestimate

Supra Features Done Remotely

August 24, 2020

Supra now offers an expanded suite of new and existing services designed to further support operating in our current climate. Now, eKEY® installations can be done remotely, and real estate organizations can upgrade traditional hardware keys to the eKEY app without agents having to physically come into the office. Agents can now  receive their eKEY authorization […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Technology Tagged With: COVID-19, eKEY, in-person contact, keybox, minimum contact, Pandemic, Supra

Confidence Down? Consumer Searches for These Topics Surge

August 17, 2020

As we reported in CVAR Connect a couple weeks ago, Fannie Mae’s monthly Home Purchase Sentiment Index showed that respondents who thought it was a good time to buy a home decreased from 61% to 53%. Despite that decline in confidence, the pandemic has both increased and altered demand for housing, and it has also […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Pro Tips Tagged With: confidence, cvarconnect, Fannie Mae, First-time buyer, foreclosure, Google Search, migration, Pandemic, refinance

What Buyers Want Now

August 10, 2020

The sudden change in lifestyle during the pandemic has had a major impact on homebuyers’ needs and expectations. Point2, a real estate news and market survey resource, mapped out the current profile of the U.S. buyer and compared housing preferences and priorities of home seekers before and after the pandemic lockdown. Researchers examined five months’ […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Industry News, Pro Tips Tagged With: amenities, cvarconnect, homebuyers, Pandemic, seekers

Buyers Waiving Contingencies

August 3, 2020

The pandemic and high unemployment rate haven’t slowed the housing market. With homebuyers facing heightened competition this summer for a limited number of homes for sale, some have decided to try to gain an edge by waiving contingencies to make their offers more competitive. In June, Redfin reports that nearly 20% of successful offers submitted […]

Filed Under: CVAR Connect, Industry News Tagged With: appraisal, contingency, homebuyers, Housing market, inspection, Pandemic, unemployment, waive

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