REALTOR® median net income increased 5 percent from 2017 to 2018 and 67 percent of all REALTORS® were female, an increase from 63 percent last year.
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The REACH® program helps launch technology companies into the real estate, financial services, banking, home services and insurance industries.
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A wide range of factors contribute to why millennials decide to move to certain areas, remain for an extended period or choose to relocate shortly after their arrival.
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NAR applauds Dr. Calabria's confirmation because he has decades of experience in the housing industry, including time spent as an economist at National Association of Realtors®, and he understands the critical importance of the Federal Housing Finance Agency’s prudent management of America’s housing finance system.
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Many participants in hearings in the Senate Banking Committee agreed that our housing finance system would benefit from a utility model that can serve the national market and promote stability in the housing market, particularly during times of economic distress.
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One in six Gen Xers purchased a multi-generational home, overtaking younger boomers as the generation most likely to do so; with 52 percent of those Gen X buyers indicating that they did so because their adult children have either moved back or never left home.