October 2024

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Colombia and Mexico leading the way in 2024 According to Knight Frank's latest Global House Price Index for Q3, 2024, property prices are steadily rising across most Latin American nations in 2024, with Colombia and Mexico showing significant growth over the past year. Colombia saw a notable 10.9% rise in property values, while Mexico experienced a slightly lower increase of 9.4%. Colombia's real estate...

In this week’s episode of the RealTrending podcast, host Tracey Velt sits down for an informative conversation with Paul Carlson, the president of Five Star Real Estate. Carlson explores his early career journey, including insights into how he grew the brokerage. He also explores key lessons he learned as he inherited the president’s seat from his father, Greg Carlson, Five Star Real Estate’s...

Two artificial intelligence startups are teaming up to make searches through multiple listing services (MLSs) more accessible to the visually impaired.  The combined technology of Restb.ai and Lundy will allow users to search listings through voice commands. Restb.ai leverages AI to produce computer vision for the real estate sector, while Lundy provides a voice-driven property search...

In this session, experts will discuss mini-corr challenges and opportunities going into 2025, including whether the channel will continue to see market share growth and the latest on warehouse lender risks. Speakers: Nate Clear, President at First Funding Wade Betz, Head of Correspondent Lending at Mpire Financial Sarah Wheeler, Editor in Chief at...

Speakers: Dan Snyder, CEO & Co-Founder at Lower Brett Ludden, Managing Partner at Sterling Point Advisors Dan Hanson, Executive Director, Enterprise Partnerships & Acquisitions at loanDepot James Kleimann, Managing Editor at...

VestaPlus is gaining more traction with its artificial intelligence-powered compliance system. The company announced that Firelands Association of Realtors in Ohio and Northwest Wisconsin MLS have signed up for CheckMate, the firm’s listing compliance violation detection software. In July, Staten Island MLS and San Diego MLS entered similar partnerships with VestaPlus, and the company now serves five...

New York’s real estate market is off to a strong start to the fall season. The Manhattan market is finally showing signs of a comeback, with demand indicators improving for the first time since 2022. Closings and signed contracts rose as inventory held steady throughout Q3, with falling mortgage rates encouraging buyers to come off the sidelines and shop around. And it’s not just the luxury...

A home grow tent lets you grow vegetables and flowers indoors all year long. Zapp2Photo / Getty Images For many gardeners, indoor growing is limited to sowing seeds on a windowsill and adding supplemental lighting for seedlings in spring. It might mean overwintering rosemary and basil in winter. However, for some gardeners, indoor growing increasingly means acquiring a grow tent to garden...

Your heatless curls may make mornings more manageable, but are they worth it? Laundry experts weigh in on the negative effects of sleeping with damp hair. Stacey Brandford Heatless curls are the hair sleeping hack taking over the internet. The method involves going to sleep with wet hair wrapped around a device that promises bouncy waves by morning. With little to no effort or heat, the heatless...