May 2025

CREA Café | Should REALTORS® Explore Using AI Home Staging?

CREA Café | Should REALTORS® Explore Using AI Home Staging?

Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing industries worldwide by automating tasks, enhancing decision-making, and driving innovation, and real estate is no exception. Property valuations that use AI algorithms to analyze historical sales data, current market trends and property features, AI chatbots that improve response times and overall service for customer enquiries, and the use of AI […]

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Mortgage Rates Briefly Over 7% Before Mid-Day Improvement

Mortgage Rates Briefly Over 7% Before Mid-Day Improvement

Mortgage rates jumped sharply over the weekend as financial markets reacted to Moody’s credit rating downgrade of the U.S.  News of the downgrade broke with only minutes left in Friday’s market/business day, so most of the response played out when global markets opened again late last night. The initial reaction involved stock prices moving lower

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New Backyard Studio for a Home in an Iconic Modern Neighborhood

New Backyard Studio for a Home in an Iconic Modern Neighborhood While cross-country skiing in the 1940s, a group of idealistic young architects working with modernist Walter Gropius at The Architects Collaborative (TAC) came across a hilly, rocky undeveloped piece of land. Once a farm, the Lexington, Massachusetts, property had a barn with six cars

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Mortgage Rates End Week Only Slightly Higher After Decent Recovery

Mortgage Rates End Week Only Slightly Higher After Decent Recovery

The average top tier 30yr fixed rate is set to end the week just a few hundredths of a percent higher than last Friday at 6.92%.  That’s a victory–albeit a small one–after hitting 6.99% on Wednesday. As always, these rates refer to an index representing broad industry averages for best-case scenarios. Individual lenders and scenarios

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How Home Staging Can Transform Your Space and Accelerate Your Sale

How Home Staging Can Transform Your Space and Accelerate Your Sale

In today’s competitive real estate market, the difference between a home that sits on the market for months and one that sells quickly often comes down to presentation. Home staging—the art of preparing a residence for sale by making it appealing to the broadest range of potential buyers—has evolved from a luxury service to a

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