Sherry Chris Interviews Becky Boomsma – Realtor, Coldwell Banker
Sherry Chris chats with Becky at REBarCamp and covers some hot items affecting real estate agents today – from the extended First Home Buyers Tax
Sherry Chris chats with Becky at REBarCamp and covers some hot items affecting real estate agents today – from the extended First Home Buyers Tax
Happy day. The first edition of our Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate iPhone app is live today (actually ,11.59pm last night.) But it’s not
From years of observation, it is clear that phases in the real estate market can be tracked by changes in inventory levels, home prices and
Brokers, you wake up and realize you are behind the social media marketing eight ball. You scramble to amass a social media marketing strategy. After
As the business continues to change and consumers demand a different type of interaction between themselves and the real estate professional the techniques and responsibilities of lead generation will also continue to evolve.
Run a Google search for “Where should I live in…” and fill in any major city in the U.S. and I bet you will be
The real estate industry has many detractors. Reporters, consumers, pollsters, bloggers — so many eyes inside our business, so many fingers quick to point out
Is obsession with social networking good for marketers? BizReport looks at the new survey from Anderson Analytics whose result report that consumers can’t get enough
Selling through the current economic “Yin-yang”
(The coherent fabric of nature and mind, exhibited in all existence)
The Yang
It is interesting how there always seem to be two sides to every economic rebound. One recent effect of increased real estate market activity is a gradual increase in long-term mortgage interest rates. After bottoming out this past March in the vicinity of 4.5% for a 30-year fixed loan, the current and still historically low rate of 5.5% seems inflated to increasingly price-sensitive consumers. As a result, homes sales and refinancing are being impacted, albeit only slightly.
We know how well the big sites in real estate (Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia) rank in the search engines. And we are clear about the vast amount of traffic they receive. We also know that consumers are drawn to these sites first before drilling down to the local broker and agent sites. What we inside real estate know that most consumers may not is how many local listings are actually missing from these search sites. Jay Thompson digs a little deeper into this discussion in his post this week titled Where to search for homes online.
When I saw the headline in the Saturday New York Times entitled “It May Be Time to Think About Buying a House”, I thought to
Today we released the results of our “Living Green” consumer survey. The survey has been nine months in the making as we had it done
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