The Louisiana Liaison 
October 10, 2014 
 
The Louisiana Liaison is bringing you an information packed edition this month. Test your knowledge of real estate firms, review a commercial lending survey released by NAR and read how home buyers overcome all-cash offers. Stay informed with this free Louisiana REALTORS� service!

2014 Profile of Real Estate Firms: Part I

Test Your Knowledge

How much do you know about real estate firms? Take this quiz put out by NAR and find out now. 
We NEED You! 

Currently, Louisiana is about 450 new LARPAC participants away from reaching our goal of 37 percent participation. If we can reach this last goal we will bring home the President's Cup for the first time ever! 

We need you to reach out to those who have not yet given. Please contact your local board to receive a list of all non-investors for 2014. Once you have this list, you can begin reaching out and sending this donation link to those who wish to invest. All they need is their NRDS ID! 

Time is running out. We hope you all will band together as leaders and help us reach this last goal! 
Commercial Real Estate Lending Survey

This in an intensive survey conducted by NAR covering commercial lending. We hope you find some valuable and useful knowledge through the survey findings. 

"The Commercial Real Estate Lending Survey is conducted annually and provides an overview of lending conditions that impact commercial transactions nationally, based on responses from commercial real estate members."

Read the full article and download the survey here. 
How Home Buyers Can Conquer All-Cash Offers
Home buyers in a bidding war often lose out to all-cash offers. But with these strategies, borrowers can win the house in the end.
 
"Home buyers caught in a bidding war know that it's hard to compete against an all-cash offer. With the right strategy, however, jumbo borrowers can win in the end.

 

Cash buyers accounted for 33% of all home purchases in June 2014, down from a peak of around 43% in late 2011 and early 2012, according to CoreLogic , a real-estate trend tracking firm."



Read the full article on the Wall Street Journal. 
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Learn more about this exciting new development. 

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