Come to Florida Realtors Convention and Trade Expo to see Penn and Teller and network, but also take a free CE-credit course to prepare for your next license renewal. (Link underlined to: http://convention.floridarealtors.org Source: Florida Realtors

Americans’ faith in the housing market continues to rebound as the Great Recession’s housing troubles slowly fade from memory,according to a new Gallup poll. Source: Florida Realtors

A steady rise in April pushed the average FRM to its highest level in four years, but last week’s 4.58% average dropped this week to 4.55%. Source: Florida Realtors

The rate that affects adjustable-rate mortgages and, indirectly, fixed-rate mortgages will probably be raised at least slightly at the Fed’s next meeting in June. Source: Florida Realtors

After two months of decline, consumer sentiment among Floridians increased six-tenths of a point in April to 98.1 from a revised figure of 97.5 in March. Source: Florida Realtors

Never been to the convention? The first 300 newbies pay only $100 to register and they get that refunded once it’s over. But hurry: Slots are going quickly: Register now. Source: Florida Realtors

Banks have money to lend yet fewer applications, so one lender is qualifying borrowers with FICO scores as low as 500 and manually underwriting each loan. Source: Florida Realtors

20% of current renters have no interest in buying a home – an increase from 17% last August and 13% in 2016, according to Freddie Mac research. Source: Florida Realtors

Today’s MLSs give consumers 24/7 access to local home listings thanks to technology, even as NAR’s agreement for online-only brokers ends soon. Source: Florida Realtors

MLS RoundTable, which serves about 300K U.S. Realtors, says it will create a consolidated backend, combine feeds, eliminate RETS servers and make other changes. Source: Florida Realtors