Overall, apartment occupancy was the highest in August that it has been at any point since the tech boom in 2000, RealPage said earlier this month. August also marked the seventh consecutive month that apartment occupancy has risen, and the 12th consecutive month of rent growth at or above 3%.
The National Association of Mortgage Brokers has named Rocke Andrews as its new president. Andrews previously served as the NAMB president in 2015. This time around, he is replacing Rick Bettencourt.
![[Pulse] How real estate agents and mortgage lenders can use Instagram to boost their business](https://www.bosar.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Pulse-Instagram-1-1-563x675.png)
Instagram boasts a whopping 1 billion users, with 500 million of them logging into the platform every day. The hashtag #realestate has been used on 26 million posts, and that’s merely one of the endless hashtag options.
Soon, State Farm will begin using Quicken Loans to originate mortgages for its customer’s thanks to a significant new partnership between the two companies.
Lenders have begun going digital to meet customers’ desire to remove some of the time-consuming manual processes that are part of getting a mortgage.
