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ATTOM Data Solutions, curator of the nation’s premier property database and first property data provider of Data-as-a-Service (DaaS), has released its fourth-quarter 2020 Vacant Property and Zombie Foreclosure Report (a current snapshot of the market in the fourth quarter) showing ...

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  The median home sale price increased 13% year over year to $319,000 during the 4-week period ending January 3, according to a new report from Redfin (redfin.com), the technology-powered real estate brokerage. Below are other key housing market takeaways ...

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  The latest Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch benchmark report reveals the effect of increasing COVID-19 cases on small businesses in the U.S. The Jobs Index shows a slowing of 0.24 percent in December to 94.06, a ...

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  In yet another sign that home sellers have the advantage in the current housing market, a new Zillow® analysis shows the share of listings with a price cut is down compared to last year. Only 4.1% of homes on ...

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Centene Corporation has announced it has selected Charlotte as the future home of its new East Coast headquarters, creating more than 3,237 new jobs in the city. Centene will invest $1,034,900,790 to develop a state-of-the-art corporate campus in the University ...

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  Christian Samartino, SIOR of Piedmont Properties/CORFAC International has achieved the SIOR industrial designation awarded by the Society of Industrial and Office REALTORS®. SIOR is a Washington, DC-based international professional organization of more than 3,200 commercial real estate professionals whom ...

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In the fifth wave of a national survey among American adults, Weber Shandwick and United Minds, the firm’s management consultancy specializing in transformation, in partnership with KRC Research, have found that 61 percent of U.S. workers are contemplating professional or ...

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Sterling, a leading provider of background and identity services, released a new whitepaper, The State of Identity Verification. Authored in partnership with HR.com’s Research Institute, the whitepaper reveals that a large majority of organizations (80%) indicate it is possible that ...

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A historic inventory crisis is driving up home prices to new highs, but understanding why would-be sellers are sitting on the sideline had been guesswork. Now a new Zillow survey[i] is shedding light on how the pandemic is influencing homeowners ...

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  As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, more than 80% of consumers in the US expect customer support to get more empathetic or more responsive, and in some cases, both, according to the findings of the report ‘Customer Support Through The ...

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