Realtors Property Resource (RPR), What Do You Think?
The email hit my inbox Thursday night at 5:43 pm. The subject line read: EMBARGO: You’re Invited to Attend a Private HouseLogic Webinar Tomorrow. The
The email hit my inbox Thursday night at 5:43 pm. The subject line read: EMBARGO: You’re Invited to Attend a Private HouseLogic Webinar Tomorrow. The
There is evidence that the soft real estate market is stabilizing, but let’s not gets too carried away! Signs of weakness in the real estate sector are slowing and while that is surely a welcome sight, it is important not to confuse these signs with an actual recovery.
Marketing used to be simple. A flyer. A postcard distributed to your farm. A newspaper ad in what once was a robust real estate section filled with listings. Today, simplicity has not be replaced, just relocated to the Internet where social networking websites are providing small business great new opportunities to market their services and wares. Rhonda Abrams digs into the top 5 and how small business can make best use them in her post titled Strategies: Which social networking site is best for your small business?
In real estate we have already seen the value of newspapers virtually disappear in terms their power to attract buyers. The following chart is one that I recommend every agent have on hand during a listing appointment. It clearly shows where buyers are finding the homes they buy, and it’s not the newspaper.
Those responsible for attracting new agents to their offices have certainly been challenged by today’s real estate market. A look at the decline in NAR membership only adds to the discouragement many recruiters are feeling. So let’s regroup.
On a recent trip to Exuma, I strolled to the straw market not far from my hotel. I was on a mission to find a
Sorry to play the contrarian again, but why all the hoopla over NAR’s release this week? Was the news really good enough to elicit a “wow”?
Believe me, after absorbing one ugly headline after another (both fair and unfair) for years now, the industry could certainly use a positive spin on the numbers. Like many others I know, I felt that the media practically reveled in reporting bad news while too often failing to expand on the whole story. This time around, though, I must be missing something because I just don’t get why this is the month when the figures are being trumpeted as the possible first signs of a turnaround.
So pardon me if I’m flying against the positive media winds when I think February was barely different than prior months; as before, I see in the numbers reasons to be both cautious and cautiously optimistic. But I sure ain’t ready to call this yet.
There have been several big releases over the last few days. Let’s take a look at each and what figures are most important to those
As I think about Black History Month and the remarkable events of the last year, I find myself simultaneously thinking about two very different kinds
At 10am this morning, the National Association of REALTORS® released its year-end summary of existing home sales (their commentary can be read here). As with our
I’ve been waiting for this book since I saw Malcolm Gladwell speak about the research he was doing for it at the National Association of
Last week, Fannie Mae released its Economics & Mortgage Market Analysis. This morning the National Association of REALTORS® released its November summary of existing home sales(“EHS”).
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