AGBeat Columnist: Greg Cooper
Realtor, Speaker, former Indianapolis radio personality. Least prettiest person ever on HGTV. Crashed in a helicopter and a Cessna 182. Seven lives left. Blessed by an amazing family!
Realtors as impromptu designers during downturn
I’m a moderately color blind, middle aged guy. I think it’s fair to say I am NOT a design expert. I wouldn’t know Napastyle from Nashville style; South Beach from Orange Beach or De Rigueur from Dens-R-Us. So why is it more and more I have clients asking my opinion about significant changes they’re making to either design or décor ...
The battle to complete unfinished housing developments
They’re scattered all across the country, sitting like apocalyptic metaphors for the post housing crash world to see. Half built residential and condominium developments as well as mixed use projects that have taken an ugly turn from their original plan. In so many cases homeowners have been hung out to dry either after the smack of the Bankruptcy judge’s gavel ...
How niche will you go? An introspective look at niche marketing
As the market began to crash in 2008 (or for some of us in the Fall of ’07) I jokingly started telling people that I was going to be specializing in flood plain properties under $50,000 as my primary marketing focus. Little did I realize that in this age of specialization there are agents that are pulling things in so ...
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Changing the real estate prism – an outsider’s perspective
For a great number of years I’ve looked through my own myopic real estate prism in a fairly consistent way. As the current economic downturn has progressed, my view has narrowed, some would say into a very cynical eye for the professional world around me. The passing of Joe Ferrara has caused me to revisit that. To be clear I ...
Are Realtors part of the problem… or part of the solution?
A colleague invited me to his Broker’s Open House recently. You know the drill. A number of Realtors who have no real interest or prospect for a given property show up to partake in bad chain restaurant pasta and stale bread sticks. On rare occasions we rejoice over a cookie for dessert. This particular colleague is a sharp agent. He’s ...
Real estate news confuses, analysts don’t agree on market health
So let me see if I understand correctly… Foreclosures are down slightly but by some accounts the numbers of loans that will go into default in the coming years will still go up. New construction surges and new home sales are up substantially but the value of raw land in many places is down. The stock market is up 190 ...
Passage of Health Care, Employment Instability & Real Estate
Health care is in… now what? So health care is now law…..and gosh it sure makes sense doesn’t it? The fines for not paying for your new government required health care are not even close to what your monthly premiums will be when this thing kicks in. In the mean time, Caterpillar, John Deere, 3M, ATT, Verizon, Monsanto and other ...
Will The American Dream of Home Ownership Survive?
Will the dream survive? Considering the unthinkable is not what most real estate people want to go any where near. The fact remains that this financial crisis has kicked home ownership as an investment squarely in the teeth. The concept of owning a home compared of where we were as a nation 5 years ago hs indeed changed. Once upon ...
Consumers Are Not Getting Enough Credit in Today’s Market
Between oversupply, bank failures and countless other reasons we all have our opinions as to the problems of today’s housing market. We’re also aware of challenging issues in the credit market but have we really considered the cost? It’s not just a little consumer and Realtor frustration. The absurdities of today’s credit markets are costing our economy and individual consumers ...
Where’s The Recovery? Discussing the Mess We’re in Today
Growing weary Anyone else growing weary of hearing about how this economic bog we’re in is all W’s fault? Yes, 43 was a fiscal knucklehead and absolutely contributed to the mess we’re in today but it’s your mess now, Obama. Regrettably the President’s focus is not on housing and the economy, it’s on healthcare. When Bush 41 was defeated by ...
Here Comes the Corner – Are You Going To Be Ready?
Are you ready? The market is about to make a significant turn. The disappearance of the housing stimulus is literally two months away. As those evaporate the Fed is also scheduled to end the purchasing of mortgage backed securities on 3/30. We’ve spent the last year plus in housing stimulation mode and all of that’s about to end. Higher mortgage ...
Will This Housing Market Mess Get Fixed?
Where to begin? There are so many people and organizations to thank for continuing to exacerbate this housing mess I’m not sure where to begin. I’m not even sure who they all are. Andrew Cuomo for foisting this whole HVCC mess on Fannie, Freddie and us? F & F themselves for the idiocy that is their mortgage policy guide? President ...
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