So the Arkansas Realtors® Association’s (ARA) convention ends tonight, but we’re ready to announce the winners of our secret auction for ads in our magazine.
The magazine, of course, is Realtor® ‘Rightings. If you’ve not seen the magazine yet, well you’re just in luck because you can click here and look at PDF copies of past [...]

Once again, we’ve seen inventories climb a bit in four Arkansas housing markets while average list prices have dropped.
In those combined markets, the average list price has hit a three-month low. The question, of course, is what’s going on here?
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As buyers have no doubt heard time and time again, there’s just not a whole lot of time left to find a home and close on it prior to the deadline of Nov. 30 for the first time home buyer tax credit.
Hopefully, buyers won’t be in such a hurry that they’ll skip the very important [...]

It seems that everyday, I have an agent come into my office and ask a question that has something to do with technology regarding the real estate profession.
The majority are just starting to look at the options that are available to become a part of, while others are even more far advanced than myself.
However, one [...]

The UALR College of Business will honor two alumni at its Alumni of the Year awards beginning at 11:30 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at The Peabody Little Rock.
“The opportunity to publicly recognize outstanding alumni and to celebrate their achievements and contributions to the community is both an honor and a responsibility for the College of [...]

Yes, indeed — 28 of the local boards of Realtors® have chosen their Realtors® of the Year.
All of those folks — who are pictured in the nifty slideshow above — are in the running for the Arkansas Realtor® of the Year honor (good luck to them all). The statewide Realtor® of the Year will be [...]

Wade Rivers — a Realtor® with RE/MAX Mena Real Estate — has been running around our great state of Arkansas promoting his novel, “Y” City. Fortunately, he took a minute or two to drop by and visit with us here at the Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA).
He described the book as a thriller set in the [...]

Here we go — another week and another average/median list prices and inventories report from the Arkansas Realtors Association (ARA). Not a whole lot has changed from last week, but we are curious as to how these reports will look as we get closer to the Nov. 30 deadline for the first-time home buyer tax [...]

For the first time since December 2005, we at the Arkansas Realtors® Association released a housing market report that was largely positive.
In July, there were 2,574 new and existing, single family homes sold by Realtors® throughout the state – up 1.58 percent from 2,534 houses sold in the same month last year. Was that a [...]

It’s really very obvious that Realtors® aren’t shy when it comes to sharing opinions.
That — actually — is good news. Why? We at the Arkansas Realtors® Association want to hear from some of our opinionated members — yes, we’re looking for volunteers to submit a blog post or two to us when they get time.
Why? [...]

Arkansan Chris Polychron is running for 2015 president of the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) and we at the Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA) — of course — hope he achieves that goal.
Polychron — a Hot Springs Realtor® — is one of those fellows who does his profession proud. He is an accomplished businessman, has dedicated [...]

On Aug. 28, the Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA) sent out a survey after reviewing a technology survey sent out by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR).
We at the ARA wanted to get an idea of how Realtors® were utilizing technology in this state and how this blog was received by our members. The survey was [...]

The National Association of Realtors® sent out a “call to action” to its members this morning asking them to write their U.S. representatives and senators about the importance of extending the first-time home buyer tax credit.
According to the call to action — which was delivered by email to Realtors® around the nation — the concern [...]

This week, average list prices dropped a bit and inventories — the number of homes for sale — went up slightly in the four areas surveyed as part of the Arkansas Realtors® Association average/median list prices and inventories report.
There were no real surprises in this week’s report, but it is very clear that the homes [...]

I received an email the other day from Tricia Fredinburg – a loan officer with Arvest in Little Rock – stating the lender will guarantee the first time home buyer tax credit to qualified buyers for all closings scheduled to take place on or before Nov. 20.
That initially struck me as odd because the tax [...]