HARRIS REAL ESTATE UNIVERSITY Partners With NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS

Harris Real Estate University is proud to announce that it now offers the National Association of Realtors®’ official designations & certifications through REALTOR® University School of Professional Development & Continuing Education in addition to its existing coursework, which allows the Harris Real Estate University better serve the diverse educational needs of real estate agents across the United States and beyond. As a REALTOR® University  affiliate, Harris Real Estate University now partners with Realtor University’s School of Professional Development and Continuing Education to provide courses in real estate  such as buyer representation, land consulting, and international property alongside emerging specializations in [...] Click Here To View More

Harris Real Estate University Motivational Podcast 05.17

Harris Real Estate University Daily Motivational Message. Listen in as Tim and Julie Harris share ways for top agents around the world to stay motivated everyday.   Attention: FREE Graduate Level coaching call with a Harris Real Estate University Coach. Offer for private one on one coaching call only for agents who are ready to take their real estate businesses to the next level. Reserve your free coaching call NOW Click Here To View More

Harris Real Estate University Motivational Podcast 05.16

Harris Real Estate University Daily Motivational Message. Listen in as Tim and Julie Harris share ways for top agents around the world to stay motivated everyday.   Attention: FREE Graduate Level coaching call with a Harris Real Estate University Coach. Offer for private one on one coaching call only for agents who are ready to take their real estate businesses to the next level. Reserve your free coaching call NOW Click Here To View More

Is It Better to Rent or Buy? It Depends on Location and Time | HREU Real Estate University

There are many difficult choices to make when deciding whether to rent or buy a home, but one of the most important factors is also among [...] Click Here To View More

Shocking Housing Market Facts, Recovery Fake? | Real Estate University

Is this ‘housing recovery’ fake or a fact? Many housing experts including Robert Shiller are calling this housing recovery fake. Shiller thinks a full housing recovery is a long way off. He thinks it could take 40 years before home prices rise to pre-2007 levels. Read the entire post here. “Housing data released Tuesday was mixed, showing home prices jumped while new home sales dropped, prompting renowned economist Robert Shiller to call the housing recovery positive in the short-term, but not without many headwinds. There might even be a bubble, he said. Here are the top housing facts. Read these [...] Click Here To View More

HREU Daily Motivational Podcast 05.15 | Real Estate University

Harris Real Estate University Daily Motivational Message. Listen in as Tim and Julie Harris share ways for top agents around the world to stay motivated everyday.   Attention: FREE Graduate Level coaching call with a Harris Real Estate University Coach. Offer for private one on one coaching call only for agents who are ready to take their real estate businesses to the next level.  Reserve your free coaching call NOW Click Here To View More

Anna Faris & Chris Pratt Upgrade to Hollywood Hills Home | Real Estate University

Although both grew up in Washington, Anna Faris and Chris Pratt have traded the evergreen state for the ever-sunshine of Hollywood. The actors recently spent $3.3 million on a Hollywood Hills home, previously owned by Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino. Click Here To View More

‘Tonight Show’ Bandleader Rickey Minor Selling Major Mansion

You may know Rickey Minor as the cool, baret-wearing bandleader on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno." He's also the owner of a Hollywood Hills gated compound with a cliff-side swimming pool on over half an acre. Click Here To View More

Reverse Mortgages: 10 Things You Need to Know | Real Estate University

Editor’s note: This guest post was written by Matt Allen of North American Savings Bank. Sometimes people reach retirement and discover that, for whatever reason, they [...] Click Here To View More

Jennifer Love Hewitt Buys Sleek Pacific Palisades Home | Real Estate University

Jennifer Love Hewitt paid $3.25 million for a home in the Pacific Palisades at the very end of April. Click Here To View More

New NAR Report: REALTOR Incomes Increasing! | Real Estate University

Great News for REALTORs..chances are you are selling more homes and making more money in 2013! Members licensed as brokers typically earned $54,900 in 2012, while the median for sales agents was $34,000. Median gross income tends to increase with experience; NAR members in the business for 16 years or more earned $57,300.  Realtors® working 60 hours a week or more earned $85,700, and 21 percent of all members earned a six-figure income. Fast facts according to this just released NAR study: * Realtor income rebounds to 2006 levels * Median Realtor income rose 25 percent from 2011 to 2012, [...] Click Here To View More

30-Year Fixed Mortgage Rates Rise for Second Consecutive Week

Mortgage rates for 30-year fixed mortgages fell this week, with the current rate borrowers were quoted on Zillow Mortgage Marketplace at 3.48 percent, up from 3.39 [...] Click Here To View More

Housing Fear: New Bubble Forming? | Real Estate University

Home prices today are rising nearly as fast as they did during the peak bubble years of 2005-2006. Since that bubble helped push us into the Great Recession, we should all be on high alert for the next housing bubble. To track whether home prices are in or nearing bubble territory, today we introduce Trulia’s [...] Click Here To View More

Report: Jennifer Lopez Buying $10 Million Mansion in Hamptons

Jennifer Lopez reportedly paid $10 million for the home, which previously demanded $425,000 as a summer rental. Click Here To View More

Top 5 Online Marketing Do’s and Dont’s for the Recovery | Real Estate University

Over the years, I have seen hundreds of slogans, catchphrases, and “me, me, me’s” thrown on shopping carts, billboards, business cards and across the web. Yes, they can be an exercise in “branding” and “Getting your name out there.”  But do they get results? Do they make your phone ring? Too many brokers and agents [...] Click Here To View More

HREU Daily Motivational Podcast 05.14 | Real Estate University

Harris Real Estate University Daily Motivational Message. Listen in as Tim and Julie Harris share ways for top agents around the world to stay motivated everyday.   Attention: FREE Graduate Level coaching call with a Harris Real Estate University Coach. Offer for private one on one coaching call only for agents who are ready to take their real estate businesses to the next level.  Reserve your free coaching call NOW Click Here To View More

‘The Late Late Show’ Host Craig Ferguson Sells LA Home

The comedian has sold his Hollywood Hills home for $1.74 million after listing the property less than three months ago. Click Here To View More

Is an FHA Loan Right for You? | Real Estate University

Since the Great Depression of the 1930s, the U.S. government’s Federal Housing Administration (FHA) has provided a form of mortgage insurance to back loans made to [...] Click Here To View More

Jeff Gordon Looks For Big Apple Finish By Listing His $30M Apartment

Here’s one New York City apartment that’s definitely not the pits. In fact, listed for sale at $30 million, one thing that’s abundantly clear about this [...] Click Here To View More

HREU Daily Motivational Podcast 05.13 | Real Estate University

Harris Real Estate University Daily Motivational Message. Listen in as Tim and Julie Harris share ways for top agents around the world to stay motivated everyday.   Attention: FREE Graduate Level coaching call with a Harris Real Estate University Coach. Offer for private one on one coaching call only for agents who are ready to take their real estate businesses to the next level.  Reserve your free coaching call NOW Click Here To View More

Real Estate University | Not Just Investors: Local Job Growth Also Supporting Home Price Gains

The Trulia Price Monitor and the Trulia Rent Monitor are the earliest leading indicators of how asking prices and rents are trending nationally and locally. They adjust for the changing mix of listed homes and therefore show what’s really happening to asking prices and rents. Because asking prices lead sales prices by approximately two or [...] Click Here To View More