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Mar 2018 – HomesUSA.com New Home Sales Index

Hot Texas new home market continues to post impressive numbers | HomesUSA.com® “Days on Market” index, other data shows vibrant activity Dallas, Texas – April 23, 2018 – The Texas new home market has been on fire during the last year, as each month’s moving average of home sales has eclipsed the prior month. March was no…

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Zillow Quietly Charging Big Builders for Listing Exposure

By: Andrea V. Brambila of Inman News | Since 2016, Zillow Group has been tapping into a new revenue stream by charging high-volume builders to post new-home listings on the company’s websites, which include Zillow.com and Trulia, the two most popular home search portals, Inman recently learned.

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American Dream with Ben Caballero

This interview is an excerpt from the book American Dream: Interviews with Industry-Leading Professionals (October, 2016) by Jason Navallo and was published on Underdog.nyc in May 2017.

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HomesUSA.com Beta Now Available

HomesUSA.com Beta has been developed using the latest technologies and suggestions from our valued clients. HomesUSA.com offers builders the most robust, efficient, and economical method for our team to manage the builders’ inventory in MLS. The platform greatly enhances the user experience and increases speed

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Feb 2018 – HomesUSA.com New Home Sales Index

New home prices rose for the first time in the last ten months as total new home sales stabilized and the pace of home sales slowed in three of the top four major Texas markets, according to the HomesUSA.com® New Homes Sales Index and other data released today. The Index is a 12-month rolling average of the Days on Market (DOM) for new homes listed in the local Multiple Listing Services (MLSs) for the four largest Texas markets, including Dallas-Ft. Worth, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio.

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Why Agent Rankings are Based on Production — Not Business Model

Article featured on Inman News Byline by: Ben Caballero, HomesUSA.com CEO | Since I was ranked as America’s number one real estate agent on REAL Trends “The Thousand” list, other agents have questioned my ranking. Recently, one agent read a story about how,

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Lennar Chairman Talks About Innovation

Lennar’s embrace of transformational use of technology to drive its business forward became clear to audiences of Hive last fall as Lennar CEO Stuart Miller, a Hive dean, demonstrated ways that data would change local and enterprise decision-making and resource allocation from top to bottom.

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Jan 2018 – HomesUSA.com New Home Sales Index

Texas new home builders finished 2017 with steady sales in December. Most buyers benefited from lower prices as the pace of home sales improve in three of the top four Texas markets, according to the HomesUSA.com® New Homes Sales Index and other data released today.

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Your Listings may not be on Zillow

I recently learned that Zillow is not publishing my new home listings if the builder builds more than 150 homes a year. Its motivation is to have builders sign up for its Promoted Communities service, which Zillow covertly launched in early 2016.

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Dallas Homes Sold for More than Asking in 2017

Homebuyers competing for a property in North Texas are going the extra mile to make a deal. Last year, almost 40 percent of the Dallas-area homes that sold went for more than the asking price, according to new data from real estate portal Zillow. Nationwide, about 1 in 4 homes sold for more than the original list…

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