In the short time Diane Tomb has been the executive director of the National Rental Home Council, she has built a strong organization consisting of the top companies within the single-family rental space. Since Tomb joined the NRHC, a non-partisan organization dedicated to advocating on behalf of the single-family rental home industry, its membership has
Suzanne Zinn Mueller has been at realtor.com less than two years, but is already making a significant impact by deepening relationships and forging new ones in a business whose success relies on positive people-to-people interactions. Her restructuring of realtor.com’s industry relations field team along geographic lines has helped the company focus on engagement regionally, and
Clients at Auction.com have come to rely on Ali Haralson’s creative thinking and problem-solving abilities to help them navigate an evolving mortgage servicing industry. Her skills come from more than 20 years of experience in the industry, which includes founding a loan servicing company that she grew from four employees to a staff of more
Interior designer Summer Thornton turned a newly constructed Mediterranean-style house in sunny Naples, FL into a beautiful vacation home, featuring refined decor and a soothing color palette. “The homeowner wanted it to feel bright, casual, and elegant, so I steered the interior design toward more traditional furnishings and a light color palette with pops of
Homeowners selling their home in the second quarter of 2017 saw their largest profit gain in the past decade, according to the Q2 2017 U.S. Home Sales Report from ATTOM Data Solutions, a multi-sourced property database. Homeowners who sold their home during the second quarter gained an average $51,000, the highest average price gain for
The national homeownership rate increased slightly from last year, but was not statistically different from last quarter, according to the latest release from the U.S. Census Bureau. The homeownership rate in the second quarter came in at 63.7%, up 0.8 percentage points from last year’s 62.9% but only 0.1 percentage points from the first quarter’s 63.6%.
Back in March, HousingWire gathered three industry experts to answers readers’ questions on the appraisal market. But as it turned out, one hour wasn’t nearly enough time to properly dig into the state of the highly debated appraisal market. In the time that has passed since March, however, HousingWire has weighed in on the debate,
Homebuilder D.R. Horton posted steady growth in the fiscal 2017 third quarter, as the market waits for an increase in housing inventory. According to the homebuilder’s earnings report, it’s well positioned for the fourth quarter and to help bring more housing inventory to the market. Overall, D.R. Horton reported that net income for its third
Building on the momentum of the previous month’s increase, new home sales increased in June, according to the latest report from the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Sales of new single-family homes in June increased to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 610,000, the report showed. That is
Realtor.com has been without a chief economist since Jonathan Smoke left the company in April to become the chief economist for Cox Automotive, an auto industry powerhouse that includes the brands, Autotrader, Dealer.com, Dealertrack, Kelley Blue Book, Manheim, NextGear Capital, vAuto, Xtime, and others. But now, the real estate site has found a replacement, one that