Vault 3.0 is here, and you're invited to upgrade your existing Vault service for free (as is always the case with our upgrades) by visiting our upgrade page. Your upgrade will include an Instant Customer Update (ICU) mechanism such as we use with WinTOTAL, so you'll automatically be delivered future updates without having to visit […]
Women are no longer waiting to find "the man of their dreams" before investing in their future as the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) reports that single women now make up 21 percent of all home buyers – that's 1.7 million. That makes them the second largest home buying category next to married couples.
Pittsburgh-based General American Corp. (GAC), one of the nation's largest mortgage vendor management companies, recently completed a custom plugin for our XSite Order Manager (formerly Mercury Desktop) product for our nationwide roster of real estate appraisers.
More and more people are recognizing REALTORS’® expertise in the real estate market and are choosing them for help in buying and selling their homes, according to a National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) survey that measured the effectiveness of the seventh season of the group’s public awareness campaign. According to the survey, consumers particularly like […]
More and more people are recognizing REALTORS'® expertise in the real estate market and are choosing them for help in buying and selling their homes, according to a National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) survey that measured the effectiveness of the seventh season of the group's public awareness campaign.
Your website needs to say who you are and what you can do for your customers in an instant. When prospective customers browse the Web, they need to be reeled in by a visual, interactive experience. Your website needs to tell them that you take technology seriously, and that the “face” you put on the […]
We've never made any bones about being on your side – certainly not in the pages of our e-Newsletter. Once a week we try to give you the good news about your profession, where most real estate and broader media focus on the bad. We do this truthfully, diligently, and have our facts straight. We're […]
While mortgage rates may play a part in the real estate market, the Internet has made consumers the real drivers of the market and today's home buyer is perhaps the most powerful customer in the marketplace, according to the white paper titled, "Real Estate Confronts Customer Acquisition," from RealSure.com, a real estate consulting firm for […]
Marketing and advertising isn't something that comes naturally to most appraisers. This isn't an overgeneralization. If someone wants to enter a real estate profession and is inclined toward salesmanship and self-promotion, normally they end up as real estate agents or mortgage brokers – people who sell things. Appraisers are the engineers and auditors of the […]