Last June, the Arkansas Realtors® Association’s Public Relations Committee approved the funding necessary to establish this news site. How much did it cost? We had an initial cost of a whopping $250 and are committed to pay our esteemed hosting company — Positive Real Estate Professionals (PREP) — $200 a year to keep it going. [...]

March isn’t yet over and we’ve already got the April edition of the Metro Messenger from the Metro Area Board of Realtors® in northwest Arkansas. You, too, can download the latest copy of the latest issue of the Metro Messenger by clicking here. Head on over to find out what that board is doing to [...]

The Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA) held its first set of three business meetings in February in Branson, Mo., and upcoming federal legislation was a major topic during the two-day event. Chris Polychron, a Hot Springs Realtor® running for the position of 2013 first vice president of the National Association of Realtors® (NAR), said informing real [...]

Anyone looking for any surprises in this week’s average/median list prices and inventories report from the Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA) will likely be disappointed as a trend that has been in place since the first of the year continued this week. Namely, average list prices declined while the number of homes in inventory gained a [...]

Yeah, yeah, yeah — we’re releasing this week’s Monday Morning Briefing from TalkBusiness.net on a Monday afternoon. Cut us some slack — the February housing market report for Arkansas was just released this morning so I’ve been a bit busy. Still, we never want to sell Roby Brock short and appreciate these briefings he sends [...]

Yes, it’s time for another housing market report from the Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA). To download the report in Excel, click here. The PDF version of the report is here and you can grab a copy of the above graphic here. Those items, of course, are typical but what’s new is a great bunch of [...]

Over the past few years, a lot of real estate insiders have been worried about high inventory levels. An excess of inventory – the number of homes for sale – in any market is generally regarded as bad. The time tested rules of economics come into play here – if the supply of widgets, houses [...]

Y’all get ready — the February Arkansas housing market report will be released on Monday. Why are we making a special announcement about it? Because we’ve got a great partnership going with the Arkansas Geographic Information Office, that’s why (go ahead and click the link to give those good people a visit). At any rate, [...]

For this article I would like to do an “I report, you decide” scenario. Before I get into this column, I should point out that I’m not speaking for the Arkansas Realtors® Association and its members. I’m just speaking for myself. I am not convinced that we have exerted the critical thought required before deciding [...]

Yes,  indeed! Another The Arkansas Realtor® digest has been sent by email to happy subscribers who are fans of both detailed content and convenience. What did those smiling subscribers receive in their email boxes this morning? Click here to take a look at the latest digest. While we at the Arkansas Realtors® Association just love [...]

A fairly recent service offered by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR) is HouseLogic. That site contains a slew of information that can help homeowners — information on everything from home improvement and maintenance to taxes is over there. Pay the site a visit by clicking here.

The Arkansas Fair Housing Commission, in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Little Rock Field Office, will host its annual Fair Housing Conference at April 29-30 at the Peabody Hotel in Little Rock. Attendance is free, but real estate agents wanting continuing education credit will be charged $50 and attorneys [...]

The bright folks over at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock (UALR) Institute for Economic Advancement have posted their 2009 county and metropolitan statistical area (MSA) estimates to the Internet. To see how much the population of Arkansas and her counties have grown since 2000, click here. For MSA data, go here.

Arkansas Realtors® Association (ARA) Director of Technology David Hudson will be leaving us at the end of the month. What will he be doing? He’s turned all entrepreneural on us and has started Hudson Computer Services (HudsonCS) here in Little Rock. He’ll be doing all sorts of complicated and geeky stuff such as Web site [...]