Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Iowa just reset property taxes to assist first-time homebuyers

Home builders now have a sharper incentive to pitch to prospective first-time homebuyers in Iowa after lawmakers passed a sweeping property tax overhaul on Sunday, the final day of the legislative session. A provision in the bill replaces a nearly decade-old first-time homebuyer savings program with a more robust framework designed for today’s market and […]

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eXp’s Wendy Forsythe on how women can break into the C-suite

Photo by AJ Canaria/HousingWire’s The Gathering Even as as real estate talent pipelines overflow with qualified women, data shows little has changed in female representation at the highest executive levels over the last several decades, Wendy Forsythe told attendees at HousingWire’s The Gathering last week in Austin, Texas. In a session titled “The table wasn’t

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School principal turned real estate agent doubles volume through education

After 16 years in education, Deba Douglas walked away from the classroom because she saw a different kind of learning gap. Today, the former high school and middle school principal runs Dallas-based Deba Douglas Realty Group and teaches a course called Roadmap to Real Estate Investing. The program has helped double her transaction volume —

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