CAR Market Matters

Talking Points Interest rates rose last week, and consequently total mortgage application volume fell 4.6 percent from the previous week. The Mortgage Bankers Association’s seasonally adjusted weekly index now stands down 19 percent from the same week one year...

Potential Ballot Initiative for 2018

Two weeks ago your local leadership team attended the C.A.R. meetings in San Diego.  At the voting session, the C.A.R. Board of Directors approved a C.A.R. effort to put an initiative on the November 2018 state wide ballot. If C.A.R. is successful in placing...

CAR Market Matters

Talking Points Mortgage applications to purchase a home and for refinancing barely budged last week, the Mortgage Bankers Association reported. Economists are blaming the stall in loan demand on rising interest rates and rising home prices. Total mortgage application...

New Legal Tools

C.A.R. Legal Tools offers dynamic, concise, and engaging legal material to help you, your office, and your clients quickly and easily understand key legal issues pertaining to real estate. The most recent Legal Tools topic discusses an agent’s duty to conduct a...