Using People as Props to Sell Homes

A national home staging company is having success in today`s tough real estate market using people as props to help stage and sell large vacant homes. The innovative alternative to traditional staging is dramatically shortening the time to sell and increasing the sales price. Read More

Century 21 Country Estate

Today was a fabulous day at Century 21 Country Estates. I got to do two training sessions, one in the morning for Elena Tamez and Paul Bains sales professionals and one in the afternoon for the staff. What a fun, culturally diverse (don't know how many languages were represented in that room) and interesting group of individuals. Each made me feel right at home.

Blogging - Killer Real Estate Tool

Still not blogging? Not attending my technology webinars?  Then you have missed my preaching about the power of blogging to establish yourself as the real estate expert. Here's another great article from RISMedia that brings the value of blogging home: Killer real estate business tool.

Positive Signs in Real Estate Market

Real Estate Numbers Looking Better …

• Resales of existing homes jumped by 5.5 percent last week -- that was the largest monthly increase since July 2003, in the middle of the housing boom. In the western states, sales were up a record 34.4 percent
• Sales of newly constructed homes also were higher in the latest month, according to the Census Bureau -- up by 2.7 percent on average nationwide, but by an impressive 22.7 percent in the West
• A quarterly survey by the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal">Wall Street Journal</i> released last week found inventories down in a majority of the 18 markets studied.
• Across the country, the backlog of unsold but listed houses dropped 1.2 percent to a 9.4 month supply last month, according to the National Association of Realtors
• One week of good news does not mean we&#39;re officially in turnaround mode … But you&#39;ve got to start connecting the dots. Week after week, month after month, housing and real estate numbers are starting to look better and better

AgentGenius.com - Free Real Estate News Service

AgentGenius.com launched a free real estate news service to supplement the Agent Genius real estate magazine/opinion column. AG News is designed to give real estate professionals a distilled version of news from around the blogosphere, and AG Sphere represents a compilation of some of the country's top real estate industry blogs, broken down by topic and geographical area. Topics on AG News range from technology, legislation, design, to lending and the economy as they pertain to the real estate professional.

Active Rain - New Service

ActiveRain launched a new service called 'Listing Router'. For a visitor, it's a new header that will permanently reside at the top of every page within the ActiveRain network. It will feature search box preceded with phrase "Find Homes for Sale in:_______ Once a user completes the search box and hits enter, "Listing Router" will send the user directly to an ActiveRain members existing IDX (or other property listing) site.

Positive Signs in the Real Estate Market

Real Estate Numbers Looking Better … This Week

 

Ø  Resales of existing homes jumped by 5.5 percent last week -- that was the largest monthly increase since July 2003, in the middle of the housing boom. In the western states, sales were up a record 34.4 percent!

 

Ø  Sales of newly constructed homes also were higher in the latest month, according to the Census Bureau -- up by 2.7 percent on average nationwide, but by an impressive 22.7 percent in the West.

 

Ø  A quarterly survey by the Wall Street Journal released last week found inventories down in a majority of the 18 markets studied.

 

Ø  Across the country, the backlog of unsold but listed houses dropped 1.2 percent to a 9.4 month supply last month, according to the National Association of Realtors^® -- that was down from an 11 month supply the previous month.

 

Ø  One week of good news does not mean we're officially in turnaround mode … But you've got to start connecting the dots. Week after week, month after month, housing and real estate numbers are starting to look better and better.