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- The Top 10 Trending Agent Genius Articles – Week of March 1920 March 2010, 2:07 pm
This week on AG: This past week has been a whirlwind! We (Benn & I) were at the South by Southwest Interactive conference starting last week which ended with what we’re all calling the SXSW SARS of 2010 which wiped many of us out (including…...
- Real Estate Karaoke at the Redhead Lounge19 March 2010, 7:00 am
In case you missed all the fun, last week I hosted a virtual real estate discussion in the Redhead Lounge. This second installment includes the same illustrious crew: Brandie Young, Ken Brand and Paula Henry, as well as two party crashers, Joe Loomer and…... - 36 Tips to Go From Selling Residential to Commercial Real Estate18 March 2010, 5:42 pm
36 tips and tricks Is it not amazing how you start out on one simple path and end up going in a completely different direction? I’m referring to my last sarcastic post about staying away from Commercial Real Estate. I think my intent was to…... - Realtors, I Want You to Like Me… Or Do I?18 March 2010, 2:00 pm
Is There a Secret Handshake or Cool Club I Should Know About? As my real estate licensing test date approaches, so does responsibility and opportunity. I think I’ve got a few things going for me. They would include an advertising background, a great company to…... - VFlyer’s New “Backpack” Has Just Become Indespensible for Me!18 March 2010, 9:27 am
I’ve been using VFlyer now for several years as a way to syndicate my listings and also to create email blasts, property fliers, etc. etc.. I’ve been a long time fan of the service, largely due to the flexibility and professional appearance of their product. …...
- Agent ratings: good and bad is better19 March 2010, 3:11 pm
The Wheel Estate Cam: Episode 16read more... - The bad news economy19 March 2010, 2:12 pm
Commentary: No cheer in jobs, housing outlookread more... - A profit-sharing prophecy19 March 2010, 12:36 pm
Letter to the Editorread more... - The house that got away19 March 2010, 11:40 am
Home Sale Hindsightread more... - Tips on remodeling to sell19 March 2010, 10:23 am
Sellers hit snag with kitchen paint, drawer choicesread more...
- Multigenerational Households Hit 50 Year High20 March 2010, 9:43 am
The American Dream was to grow up, buy your own home in the suburbs with the white picket fence, and live happily ever after. But the dream and the modern reality are heading further and further apart. 16 percent of the population is now living in multigenerational households and that number is rising quickly. Foreclosures, [...]Thanks for reading this post. If you would like to see more articles like this, please come visit The Real Estate Bloggers. where it was originally published.Multigener... - Zell Predicts Real Estate Recovery Starts End of 201019 March 2010, 7:39 am
Last week Warren Buffet will rebound in 2011, today Sam Zell (another billionaire) said essentially the same thing. Zell speaking with Bloomberg says the recovery will start at year end and gain strength in the middle of next. The concern I have is not the financial markets now, it is the relationship between the markets and [...]Thanks for reading this post. If you would like to see more articles like this, please come visit The Real Estate Bloggers. where it was originally published.Zell... - Weather and Economy Hurt New Home Construction in February17 March 2010, 8:30 am
February was not a good month for new home sales. The weak economy and brutal weather contributed to the moribund numbers on new housing starts. The numbers are expected to drop from last years terrible February and this years weak January. Expectation that housing development will improve in March are far fetched looking at how [...]Thanks for reading this post. If you would like to see more articles like this, please come visit The Real Estate Bloggers. where it was originally published.Weath... - Mortgage Rates Rising Could Hurt Real Estate Sales16 March 2010, 7:12 am
If you are looking to purchase a home in the near future, watch the mortgage rates. Due to the Federal Reserve buying up mortgage paper and a severe recession we have enjoyed historically low mortgage rates recently. That all might change. And with this change the cost of housing may rise. If rates do go [...]Thanks for reading this post. If you would like to see more articles like this, please come visit The Real Estate Bloggers. where it was originally published.Mortgage Rates Rising Could... - Rental Scams on Craigslist – Landlords Beware15 March 2010, 9:51 am
If you thought the scams being run on Craigslist were just on ripping off prospective tenants as we talked about before here, you are missing the other side of the coin. Landlords are in just as much danger. The new scam involves renters sending fake cashiers checks and money orders. The landlord is thrilled to [...]Thanks for reading this post. If you would like to see more articles like this, please come visit The Real Estate Bloggers. where it was originally published.Rental Scams on Craigsl...
- America's $50 Million Homes18 March 2010, 5:10 am
Many of the country's most lavish properties have dropped in price to lure buyers.... - Listed: Stylish Cabana In Key Biscayne17 March 2010, 1:00 pm
This breezy home in a South Florida enclave offers top-tier amenities and a beach attitude.... - The $50 Million Price Point4 March 2010, 6:00 pm
There's an art to selling a ridiculously expensive piece of real estate. It starts with getting the buyer to think of a big number....
- Mortgage rates fall below the 5 percent mark19 March 2010, 3:39 pm
Mortgage rates held below the 5 percent threshold for the third straight week as the Federal Reserve prepares to end a program that has kept rates at or near record lows. ... - Mom of octuplets may lose home to foreclosure19 March 2010, 2:59 pm
The mortgage holder for Nadya Suleman's $565,000 Southern California residence says he is starting foreclosure proceedings because the family hasn't kept up the payments. Nadya Suleman - Foreclosure - Southern California - Mortgage - United States... - Greenspan denies Fed fueled housing bubble18 March 2010, 3:53 pm
Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan, whose legacy has been tarnished by the global financial crisis, on Thursday laid out a scholarly defense of the matter. Alan Greenspan - Federal Reserve System - Chair of the Federal Reserve - Economic - Central bank... - Sponsored By:17 March 2010, 2:09 pm
... - Fannie Mae cuts mortgage investment forecast17 March 2010, 2:09 pm
Fannie Mae, the largest provider of U.S. residential funding, on Wednesday slashed its forecast for residential investment this quarter following a "setback" in home sales. Fannie Mae - Mortgage - United States - Business - Financial Services...
- How Many Homes Do Banks Have Up Their Sleeves?19 March 2010, 6:42 pm
For those trying to figure out how much further U.S. house prices could fall, it would help to know how many more foreclosed homes banks need to sell. Here are three estimates.... - Friday Diversion: Kardashian Lists, Former Avon Chief Sells19 March 2010, 12:44 pm
Reality television star Kim Kardashian buys a furnished estate in the Beverly Hills Post Office area of Los Angeles for about $3.5 million.... - Has the Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension Flopped?18 March 2010, 3:35 pm
Fannie Mae cut its home sales forecast for 2010, after the housing market faced a “setback” during the first quarter of the year.... - Are Tough Appraisal Rules Holding Back Housing?18 March 2010, 11:13 am
Our story on Page One today takes a look at how folks who want to build or buy homes with unusual materials are having a lot of trouble getting financing because underwriting standards are much tighter today.... - Dubai World, Turnberry Might Keep Fontainebleau Miami17 March 2010, 2:32 pm
Lenders holding the $620 million construction loan on Miami Beach’s fabled Fontainebleau hotel are close to approving a restructuring proposal in which the hotel’s owners would contribute $100 million of new equity, according to people familiar with the matter....
- Where home prices are rising19 March 2010, 8:47 am
Real estate prices in Santa Rosa, California are heading higher. What other cities are projected to enjoy home price gains in 2010?... - Get a perfect home using what you own17 March 2010, 3:21 pm
Hate the mess your home has deteriorated into but you don't have the time or means to do a comprehensive redecorating job? Or maybe it's time to sell your place, but you don't know how to show it off to best effect?... - Mortgage help: 170,000 get aid12 March 2010, 6:29 pm
More than 170,000 troubled homeowners are breathing a lasting sigh of relief now that they've received permanent modifications under the Obama administration's foreclosure prevention program.... - The three-figure kitchen makeover12 March 2010, 5:57 am
Living with an undersize, outdated kitchen? If so, a sledgehammer may feel like the only solution. But these days you're probably not up for spending the $50,000 or more -- maybe much more -- it would cost to demolish the space and build a new state-of-the-art room from scratch.... - Foreclosures leveling off11 March 2010, 12:04 pm
The national foreclosure rate fell 2% in February from a month earlier, according to an industry report released Thursday, the latest sign that the pace of foreclosures is slowing....
- It’s Official: Facebook is kind of a big deal18 March 2010, 6:18 pm
Something big happened this week. And I’m not talking about the move towards a vote on health care reform. According to online measurement firm Experian Hitwise, Facebook eclipsed Google in weekly traffic estimates. The difference was razor thin -Facebook visits tallied 7.07 percent of Internet traffic in the US versus Google’s 7.03 percent – but the [...]Sign up for the 1000watt Spotlight e-newsletter and keep up with the ideas, apps and people that are changing real estate. ... - Online real estate opportunity screams – are you listening?16 March 2010, 12:34 pm
It’s 2010. Real estate is an odyssey. It’s time you took your Web users for the ride of lifetime. How it was, still is In the old days, you picked a real estate Website off a vendor’s shelf. Chose a color palette. A layout. Slapped on a logo. Got the IDX paperwork signed. Switched the DNS and you were [...]Sign up for the 1000watt Spotlight e-newsletter and keep up with the ideas, apps and people that are changing real estate. ... - Real estate technology: think food, not forks11 March 2010, 9:41 pm
Yesterday I participated in a session at the Leading Real Estate Companies of the World conference on “The future of technology.” I thought about this a lot before the event and decided I didn’t want to talk about technology, for two reasons: First, technology is – in the real estate broker’s world – thoroughly paradoxical. That which [...]Sign up for the 1000watt Spotlight e-newsletter and keep up with the ideas, apps and people that are changing real estate. ... - Infographics as a cure for marketing sameness10 March 2010, 10:58 pm
Edward Tufte is a statistician, author, lecturer and graphic design legend. His seminal work, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, is considered by many to be the go-to book on data visualization and has been described by Amazon.com as no less than one of the ”best 100 books of the 20th century”. Pick it up. If you’re a visual design nerd [...]Sign up for the 1000watt Spotlight e-newsletter and keep up with the ideas, apps and people that are changing real estate... - Brokers: embrace difference, love the eccentric9 March 2010, 10:53 am
In a recent post I waxed on about the type of agents I would recruit if I started a brokerage. As someone who believes branding results from the conscious decisions you make about what you want the world to remember about you, well, I’d create something memorable. And a brokerage filled with salespeople isn’t memorable. It’s commonplace. So why duplicate [...]Sign up for the 1000watt Spotlight e-newsletter and keep up with the ideas, apps and people that are changing real es...
- I Don’t Pay Cowards and Assassins19 March 2010, 7:51 pm
So earlier today, I get an interesting email from our form on 7DSAssociates.com: First Name: NAR Last Name: Scandal Email Address: info@narscandal.com Company: NARscandal.com Title: Phone: Comments: Breaking News! New Scandal at the NAR Exclusive from NARscandal.com A new scandal is brewing over at the National Association of Realtors and we at (www.NARscandal.com) have the “exclusive story” along with quality in-depth reporting you can [...]... - The Source of Confusion13 March 2010, 2:17 pm
I love this new post by Brian Boero over at 1000watt blog. Go read it in its entirety, right now. I’ll still be here. Back? Okay, I don’t have a lot of time today to do one of my traditional 9,000 word essay, but this post raises such a set of good points that I had [...]... - Do We Believe in the Millenials?10 March 2010, 9:00 am
Starting a few years ago, I’ve been hearing a lot about how the Gen-Y or Millenials (people aged anywhere from 18 to 30 today) are going to change everything — but particularly in real estate. A random sampling of opinions about how the Millenials will affect real estate, from a Google search I just ran, turned [...]... - Real Entrepreneurship8 March 2010, 6:41 pm
There is a viral YouTube video going around right now, a “parody/spoof” of Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” with Alicia Keys. Here it is, in case you haven’t seen it: I understand that the people behind the video, one Pantless Knights, were making a parody. I hope to God that they’re ridiculing the people being held [...]... - A Musical Review of Inman’s “To Be A Broker” Study5 March 2010, 1:31 am
There is an interesting little dichotomy in the results of the survey that Inman ran recently, and published as a Special Report: “To Be A Broker: Charting a Course for Recovery“. It’ll cost ya some money, unless you’re an Inman Premium subscriber, but I think Inman did a great job here in putting the information [...]...
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