by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Aug 2, 2016 | Canada and Canadians, Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
U.S. real estate purchases by Canadians used to lead the way in U.S. international sales, but that’s not the case anymore. Chinese buyers represented 45% of all purchases totaling $27 billion in sales, followed by Canada ($8.9 billion), India ($6.1 billion) the U.K....
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jul 28, 2016 | Home Ownership
Arizona law provides homeowners and homeowners associations a method for resolving disputes between them. This is an alternative to the civil court system, and does not limit the legal rights of the parties to litigate or arbitrate if need be. Strangely those...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jul 20, 2016 | The Attorney-Broker Advantage
The D.A.N.G.E.R. report, commissioned by the National Association of Realtors, states that a problem with agents is “[t]he knowledge and competency gap from the most to the least is very large, due to the low barriers to entry, low continuing education requirements,...
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jul 18, 2016 | Global Buyers + Foreign Investment
Waning economic growth in many countries, higher home prices and the strong U.S. dollar resulted in a slight decline in international sales dollar volume in the U.S. over the past year, according to NAR’s Profile of Home Buying Activity of International Clients....
by kramoltz@hotmail.com | Jul 14, 2016 | The Attorney-Broker Advantage
Last year Consumer Reports magazine said “[t]he real-estate-agent business is saddled with a poor reputation” and “[a]ccording to the real estate agents we surveyed, that reputation is sometimes earned.” This is also reflected in an earlier study of the most trusted...
