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While challenges face many of America’s commercial real estate markets, REALTORS® specializing in the sector should have confidence for growth to remain steady in the coming year.
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The Memorandum of Agreement represents a partnership effort between FEMA and NAR to educate and help the nation better prepare for disasters, and also allows REALTORS® to continue building upon the Realtor Disaster Relief Fund.
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Consumers should expect home sales to flatten and home prices to continue to increase, though at a slower pace.
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The .realestate domain, launched by the National Association of Realtors®, in partnership with Second Generation, Ltd., will be available for purchase through GoDaddy next month.
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Teams are becoming more common in the real estate industry as an increasing number of REALTORS® – 26 percent of respondents – consider themselves a member of a real estate team, according to NAR's 2018 Teams Survey.