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Realty ONE Group Acquires John Hall & Associates
(Video Transcript:) This is Jim Sexton with some ground breaking news for the Phoenix real estate market. How about John Hall & Associates merging with Realty ONE Group. (What did he say?) That’s right! John Hall & Associates will become Realty ONE Group. Who’s Realty ONE Group? Here’s a company that started six years ago…
MARS Update – July 2011
Big news on the MARS Short Sale front this week, both from the ADRE and the FTC. We’ll probably hear more from ADRE once the Federal announcement gets digested. Here’s an excerpt from the ADRE bulletin earlier this week. Here’s what the FTC had to say. So what do these announcements mean to the agents negotiating short…
Phoenix Real Estate Market – July 2011
Once again building the Phoenix real estate market report first thing on the first of the month produced some surprising results. The number of closings looks too high, especially the number and percentage of short sale closings. Even though I think these numbers will change, I’ll report them as I see them on 7/1/11. June…
Freddie Mac Short Sale Addendum
Have you seen the changes made to the required Freddie Mac Short Sale Addendum? They’ve recently added three “agents/parties”; seller’s agent, buyer’s agent, and escrow closing agent. All three are required signatories to the addendum. Previously the buyer and seller had to acknowledge and agree to things like; it’s an arm’s length transaction, there are…
Kevin Duff Receives REALTOR® Emeritus Status
Last week during an awards breakfast for the Scottsdale Area Association of REALTORS®, Kevin Duff was awarded with REALTOR® Emeritus status. Kevin has been working out of the John Hall & Associates Scottsdale office since 1984 and he’s been licensed in Arizona since 1971. Nice going Kevin, well deserved my friend! REALTOR® Emeritus Status: Any…
Scott Farmer: Above and Beyond
By now you’ve heard that the first ever Win an iPad contest has come and gone. You may not have heard that one REALTOR® in Scottsdale, Scott Farmer, produced a video to prove there was no photoshop-trickery used to create his image. Even though his image didn’t win the prize, the video is so legit…
MARS Disclosure Update – 5/4/11
Hot off the presses…all the way from MARS!! Here’s the update we’ve all been waiting for…or not? From: K. Michelle Lind, Esq. General Counsel/Asst. CEO ARIZONA ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® It appears that we made the right call regarding advising our members to continue to comply with the MARS Rules. Below is an email that I…
zipForm Help: Clean-up the Dropdown Choices
I can admit it. I am frequently stumped by real estate agent’s technology questions. Sometimes I feel my job is to direct agents to the proper source, rather than being the source. Mike Tetreault (REALTOR® in Chandler, AZ) called me up the other day and asked about cleaning out the dropdown choices within zipForm 6….
REALTOR® Mobile Search Tool – Goomzee
REALTORS® now have access to a new mobile search tool powered by Goomzee. Last week at Technopalooza I got a chance to talk with the reps and they informed me that all ARMLS subscribers have been “turned on”. That means you now have free access to their mobile search tool. Why would I use Goomzee?…
Upcoming AZ Real Estate Contract Class
Ever since the Arizona real estate contract changes went into effect, Jim and I have been met with discomforting stories on our travels to weekly office meetings. These stories usually recall someone giving a bad explanation of the changes to the Arizona Association of REALTORS® Residential Purchase Contact. We can’t have this. Bad explanations must…
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