The home donation program will be featured at the 2015 Five Star Conference and Expo, which will take place September 16 to 18 in Dallas, Texas. Five Star has partnered with various non-profit organizations over the last four years to provide approximately $4 million worth of homes to service members. At last year's conference, Five Star presented six wounded veterans with mortgage-free homes.
Read More »Auction.com Appoints EVP, Chief Legal Officer
After four months serving as interim general counsel for the company, Auction.com has named Lee Leslie as EVP and chief legal officer.
Read More »House Flipping Remains Preferred Strategy Among Investors
Even as the demand for rental housing has increased in most markets, investors continue to prefer to flip houses due to a recent combination of price appreciation and decreased inventory, according to Auction.com.
Read More »Forecast Calls for Small Bump in January Existing-Home Sales
Based on company transactional data and Google search activity, Auction.com predicted Monday that existing-home sales in January will come in at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.06 million, just slightly above the National Association of Realtors' (NAR) December estimate of 5.04 million.
Read More »Auction.com Adds Two VPs to Single-Family Division
The nation's leading online real estate marketplace,Auction.com, has announced the addition of two executives, Rob Behrend and Hauke Schupp, to its single-family residential division.
Read More »Analyst Reviews Housing’s Progress Under Obama
The president reported in his speech that the housing market has not come all the way back yet and there is still work to be done. But according to one analyst, the president may have overestimated how far the housing market has come back and the administration's role in the recovery.
Read More »Existing-Home Sales Expected to See Improvement in December
In its latest Nowcast projections, online real estate auction company Auction.com calls for pre-owned home sales to fall between seasonally adjusted annual rates of 4.79 and 5.18 million for December, with a targeted number of 4.98 million.
Read More »Home Investors Lean Toward Renting Over Flipping
Out of all the investors surveyed by Auction.com in November, 50.5 percent said they're going to rent out their properties, while 46.6 percent plan to flip them to another buyer. The preference toward renting was more evident among one-time purchasers, 72.2 percent of whom said they plan to rent out the auctioned home.
Read More »Existing-Home Sales Expected to Flatten in November
The latest Nowcast report, powered by Google data and released Monday by Auction.com, projects existing-home sales for November will fall between seasonally adjusted annual rates of 5.05 million and 5.46 million units, with a targeted number of 5.25 million sales.
Read More »Auction.com Co-Founder Honored as ‘Internet Person of the Year’
Auction.com's Rob Friedman has a new award for the mantle: The Internet Marketing Association (IMA) named the real estate marketplace's chairman and co-founder Internet Person of the Year.
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