R. Michael Brown's Blog

A report released this week by the National Association of Realtors (NAR) showed that international buyers purchased $59 billion worth of U.S. residential properties from April 2021–March 2022, up 8.5% from the previous year and breaking a three-year streak of declines.The 98,600 existing homes s...

More Than Two Years After the Pandemic Started and Now Inflation is Rising   During the pandemic, emergency rental aid helped keep millions of people in their homes. This is thanks to a federal program that allocated $46 billion.   The federal program is running out of money and shutting down in ...

By Dawn Pfaff, Host of Go Home TV & President of My State MLSThe sky is falling! Or so you would think with the numerous Doomsday scenario videos and articles. Social media is abuzz that the housing market is going to crash, but will it really? After hearing this dreaded news repeated several tim...

Freddie Mac (OTCQB: FMCC) announced that it will increase homeownership opportunities for first-time homebuyers by considering on-time rent payments as part of the company's loan purchase decisions."Finally!" said Dawn Pfaff, President of My State MLS. "If you can afford pay a certain amount for ...

Better Supply-Demand Balance is Key to More Moderate RentsCrushing rent increases remain the norm across Florida and beyond, and the Federal Reserve’s recent interest rate hike is unlikely to improve the landscape for cash-strapped renters, according to researchers at Florida Atlantic University ...

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By Dawn Pfaff, Go Home TV Host & President of My State MLSIt's still a sellers market but it's starting to soften. Here are some tips on what to do to get the maximum price to sell a house.It's a changing market. Things are happening here. And are you still pricing the houses at or above where yo...

Recent headlines have been filled with news of layoffs, but look closer. The companies where layoffs are occurring are wholly unrepresentative of the real estate industry and don't represent a major trend.Inman performed an analysis on the industry and published it today. Here's a summary of thei...

By Dawn Pfaff, Host of Go Home TV & President of My State MLSIs it possible to make a fortune shorting real estate? A YouTuber named Vlad #Biaheza posted a video about shorting real estate, and in two days, he had over 165,000 views on that video.I guess I wasn't the only one who wanted to figure...

My State MLS is a nationwide Multiple Listing Service covering the entire U.S.Real estate pros can:- List properties wherever they are licensed from one account- Search properties across the country- Work with our nationwide network of agents- Consumers see the listings on Realtor.com, Zillow, an...