Nearly three-fourths of current real estate professionals plan to remain active in the industry during the next two years, while 18 percent are somewhat certain and 8 percent aren’t so sure, according to NAR’s 2010 Member Profile. Agents with three years or more of experience in the business were more likelyto remain active than those [...]

Foreclosures Hit Record High in 2010 A total of 3.83 million foreclosure filings were reported on a record high 2.87 million properties in 2010, up 2 percent from 2009 and an increase of 23 percent from 2008, according to a year-end study from RealtyTrac, an online marketer of foreclosure properties. The report concludes that 2.33 [...]

According to the 2010 Census released by the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. population was more than 308 million as of April 1, 2010, up 9.7 percent from the 2000 resident population of 281 million. All four regions of the country posted population increases over the past decade. The South gained more than 14 million [...]