Closing the Language Barrier for Spanish-Speaking Realtors
Language barrier has been a long-standing challenge in the real estate market, especially with the Spanish-speaking community’s growing diversity. Communication plays a significant role in the smooth running of all business operations, including in the real estate market. This calls for the need to cross the language barrier through all means possible. Regarding this, the […]
September 2020 Pending Home Sales Report
The National Association of Realtors (NAR) recently released a pending home sales report recorded in September. From the report, pending home sales pace experienced a minor decline in September after four consecutive months of contracting activity growth. Moreover, all four major U.S. regions showed notable year-over-year growth, while only the Northeast region attained month-over-month gain […]
State of the Commercial Real Estate Market in the Pandemic Economy
With Steve Peterson Like the general real estate market, the commercial real estate market has been through its extreme records in 2020. At The Power Is now, we continue to lead the conversation about real estate for home ownership, wealth building, and financial literacy for all. Regarding this, we bring you the newest show on […]
November 2020 Mortgage Forecast
The 2020 mortgage market and the real estate market, in general, has been very interesting so far. Its level of uncertainty is something we have never seen before. So far, mortgage rates have hit all-time low 11 times this year alone. And with the countdown of the general election almost over, we don’t know what […]
Converting your 401K to a Self-Directed IRA
Did you know that you can convert your 401k savings into a self-directed IRA? Most people don’t understand nor know how much home purchasing power they have with their 401k. In the second West Coast Homebuyer Townhall show on The Power Is Now online radio and T.V for October, we had a special guest Donnell […]
Magic has the money. Go get it.
The flames of the novel coronavirus continue to burn hotter, making slow and painful deaths among many small businesses in the U.S inevitable. The economic situation seems to get more severe despite the government efforts to support small businesses while simultaneously fighting the spread of Covid-19. Most small businesses were at the phase of giving […]
Early Impacts of Pandemic Suggest an Abrupt About-Face for the Remodeling Market
A Lending Indicator of Remodeling Activity (LIRA) released on April 20 by Remodeling Futures program shows that home renovation and repair expenditures are likely to drop in the 1st quarter of 2021. The drop will be as a result of the current economic fallout from coronavirus pandemic. Before the onset of Covid-19, LIRA had indicated […]
Big Tech Companies in Silicon Valley to inject billions to ease up the housing situation. Will it Help?
The housing market is unsympathetic gashing across levels of society and it’s worse in states like California. Undoubtedly, the San Francisco Bay Area may be the engine of the country’s economy, but the skyrocketing housing prices and other consumer prices are leaving thousands of people homeless. The situation has attracted various concerned parties including the […]
Over 1 Trillion and still Counting: this is how Much Millennials Owe the Country
A report from the New York Federal Reserve early this year revealed that millennials now hold the most debt in the country escalating to over $1 trillion. In the last 5 years, the debt has increased by 22 percent more than any other generation in history. Millennials are people currently between the ages of 23 […]
Los Angeles: The City for the Homeless
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