Deborah Channell

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  • Fake Trulia rental listing causes Denver family to lose $3,900

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    In April, rents increased month-over-month in 81 percent of the nation’s 100 largest metropolitan statistical markets (MSAs), and that number jumps to 89 percent when looking at year-over-year trends. When home and rental prices are all on the rise, it’s easy for buyers and renters to be lured into scams with hopes of saving a […]

  • The week in financial markets: no recognizable housing cycle

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    The Fed has been oh-so-gradually pushing up on the cost of money, an overnight rate, but only this week has that up-pushing (from “underneath” as traders would say) moved long-term rates, specifically the 10-year T-note, which defines mortgages and a lot else. Read more here:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/inmannews/~3/kkQDW-M4Yug/       

  • Will iBuyers like Opendoor face a sudden backswing?

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    The newest technology-based companies trying to reinvent the housing-brokerage business are the iBuyers. All are trying to simplify the process of selling one home and buying another. All rely on faith among technologists that algorithms are clairvoyant, and among the public that anything on your phone is a good thing. Read more here:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/inmannews/~3/GbhIMne18L8/       

  • 6 ways agents can thrive in an AI-driven world

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    AI is an umbrella term for things like machine learning, facial recognition, speech recognition, computer vision, and natural language processing. But as fancy, and potentially scary, as those things sound, AI today is very narrow in that it is designed to accomplish a particular task and and is dependent on humans… Read more here:: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/inmannews/~3/v1GAYTG1iUM/ […]