Ralph McLaughlin of Trulia Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #488

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Ralph McLaughlin. Ralph is the Chief Economist for Trulia and leads their housing and economics research team. He provides house hunters with key insights about the economy as well as housing trends and public policy. His educational background includes a BS in geography and regional development from the University of Arizona. He also has a PhD in planning, policy, and design from the University of California Irvine with a specialization in urban development. He has more than a dozen publications and research papers in the field of housing, economics, land use, and housing policy. He was previously director of the certificate in real estate development at San Jose State University. Bruce and Ralph discuss affordability and its relationship to the housing market, yields and investments and their effect on real estate, traditional and speculative flipping, touch and go properties, the different demographics and whether they are favorable toward real estate, the buying activity of those of Generation-X, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Ralph McLaughlin of Trulia Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #487

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Ralph McLaughlin. Ralph is the Chief Economist for Trulia and leads their housing and economics research team. He provides house hunters with key insights about the economy as well as housing trends and public policy. His educational background includes a BS in geography and regional development from the University of Arizona. He also has a PhD in planning, policy, and design from the University of California Irvine with a specialization in urban development. He has more than a dozen publications and research papers in the field of housing, economics, land use, and housing policy. He was previously director of the certificate in real estate development at San Jose State University. Bruce and Ralph discuss advising builders what to do in an uncertain market, the economies to look at when determining the future of real estate, factors when viewing interest rates, our current economy with little GDP and full employment, the topic of housing among presidential candidates, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Claire Bartos of Las Brisas Escrow Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #486

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Claire Bartos. Claire is the branch manager and senior escrow officer at Las Brisas Escrow, as well as she is Bruce’s favorites person with whom to do escrow. Bruce and Claire discuss times escrow may not work, when lenders will say no, what to do in the event of a default with your escrow, the concept of Subject To, the HERO loan program, different types of fraud that exist today, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Claire Bartos of Las Brisas Escrow Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #485

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Claire Bartos. Claire is the branch manager and senior escrow officer at Las Brisas Escrow, as well as she is Bruce’s favorites person with whom to do escrow. Bruce and Claire discuss dealing with escrow officers who tell the truth and those who don't, working with new and experienced agents, Bruce's first experience learning escrow, whether the CFPB will revise the TRID procedures or not, and what a lot of escrow officers are doing today that is dishonest, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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