Key Highlights Google Meet videoconferencing service has new features Google Meet being offered free to all during COVID crisis Google Meet to be eventual replacement for Google Hangouts but for now, both services currently running Zoom came out of nowhere to become the number one videoconferencing service now being used. (One positive thing to come from the COVID pandemic?) Will...

Key Highlights Economy’s make or break moment could center around when economy reopens for business Mark Zandi, chief economist with Moody’s Analytics, warns of reopening too soon Mark Zandi, Moody Analytics’ chief economist, told CBNC’s “Trading Nation” that if the economy’s reopening ignites new COVID infections, the economy would drown. Download Your FREE Ultimate Agent Survival Guide Now. This is the...

Listen now to Tim and Julie Harris focus on all the latest housing and economic news. With confusing and conflicting economic news (and housing reports) its becoming difficult to know what to do now. How long will this housing boom last? What happens once this (mini) housing boom is over? Where will mortgage interest rates be over the next...

Key Highlights States reopening slowly and buyers coming to buy Sellers not selling and pulling listings Buyers were ready, willing and able for the week ending May 2 but realtor.com indicated that total listings were down -19% annually and new listings were down -39%. No wonder the country’s homebuilders are seeing such an uptick in demand. Buyers are wanting to...

Key Highlights Offerpad, Redfin and Opendoor resuming operations Offerpad returning in more than 800 cities Opendoor starting to do business in Phoenix and Raleigh-Durham Redfin relaunching in Austin, Denver and the Inland Empire, east of Los Angeles Redfin’s iBuying segment, Redfin Now, is restarting in Austin, Denver and California’s Inland Empire east of Los Angeles. Redfin’s CEO, Glenn Kelman, said...

Listen now as Tim and Julie Harris review and comment on today's top real estate headlines. As the country slowly comes out of quarantine all indications are that the SELLERS MARKET has returned. On todays show Tim and Julie drill down on how long the sellers market will last and what comes next. With a world full of competing,...

Key Highlights Developers now worrying that COVID pandemic may halt momentum for transit-oriented or live-leave developments as solution to severe housing shortages Two focal points of urban residential developments have been denser housing and building along transit lines so residents can get to and from work more quickly and cheaply Developments can be either no-frills to combat severe shortage...

Key Highlights Morgan Stanley says inflationary pressure beginning to escalate Such thinking counters emerging consensus that looming global recession would deepen disinflation trends Here are four terms real estate agents ought to know in order to better communicate economic and market trends with your clients: Download Your FREE Ultimate Agent Survival Guide Now. This is the exact ‘do this now’ info...

FINALLY great news about housing. Not just sort-a great, truly wonderful. The (mini) housing boom that Tim and Julie predicted is HERE. Listen now for everything you must know now to make the most of this surge in home sales activity. Also answered on todays show: How can you truly KNOW the truth about your local economy, home sales...

Key Highlights First $349B of PPP loans went out the door in 13 days with most going to Midwest which not hard-hit by COVID Second $310B of PPP loans still undesignated in mid May but majority of loans went to West Coast Selecting recipients for the Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) designed explicitly to offer relief to small...