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• Nearly half of all US homeowners with a mortgage still ‘underwater’ in Q1

  Despite rising home prices early in the year, a significant portion of U.S. homeowners with a mortgage — about 44 percent — still owed more on their home than it was worth or didn’t have enough equity to move at the ...

• 3 game-changing reasons for getting started with Google Analytics [Infographic]

  For most people, analytics is one of those subjects that other people pay attention to. There are a number of reasons why this is the case: there’s not enough time, it doesn’t seem important, or maybe it seems way too ...

• Calculated Risk: Housing inventory won’t bottom until 2014 [VIDEO]

  Former tech executive turned blogger Bill McBride was one of the first to suggest that homes were precariously overvalued back in 2005. When he spots a trend, people have learned to listen. McBride — who gets up early every day ...

• New ad campaign highlights California Realtors’ role in state economy

  The California Association of Realtors announced a new TV, Web, radio and print ad campaign today that highlights the positive impact its 155,000 members have on the state's economy.Two 30-second TV spots, featuring the "ripple" effect that the facilitation of home buying and selling has on the economy and families, will air on the ABC network in San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco from today through June 16. In addition, on April 17, a spot will air during the network's hit show "Modern Family" in the three markets.

• National Association of Realtors to release national MLS

   A national multiple listing service run by the National Association of Realtors should be ready by late summer, the large trade association announced today.NAR has been working for the last decade to put all of the nation's agent-represented homes for sale into one database, consolidating the 800-plus multiple listing services in the U.S. in the process."Everybody has been on board with the national MLS idea for a long time and we've been working on it for the last decade," the trade group said in a press release. 

• April Fools’ Day real estate roundup

  On the first day of April each year, communities, businesses and news outlets come up with stories intended to fool, amuse, and, sometimes, satirize. Here's a roundup of the posts ...