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Realtors as impromptu designers during downturn

Greg Cooper — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 15:58:48 +0000

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 [...]

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The battle to complete unfinished housing developments

Greg Cooper — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 15:13:59 +0000

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 [...]

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How niche will you go? An introspective look at niche marketing

Greg Cooper — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 15:35:45 +0000

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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Passage of Health Care, Employment Instability & Real Estate

Greg Cooper — Sun, 28 Mar 2010 13:45:27 +0000

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 [...]

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Consumers Are Not Getting Enough Credit in Today’s Market

Greg Cooper — Sun, 07 Mar 2010 16:53:14 +0000

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 [...]

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Where’s The Recovery? Discussing the Mess We’re in Today

Greg Cooper — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 18:09:55 +0000

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 [...]

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Here Comes the Corner – Are You Going To Be Ready?

Greg Cooper — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:39:31 +0000

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 [...]

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Will This Housing Market Mess Get Fixed?

Greg Cooper — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 16:16:51 +0000

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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So Where Do We Go From Here? Management of Online Risk

Greg Cooper — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 16:28:51 +0000

Did anyone else get lost? Trying to keep up with the different discussions last weekend basically required one to take notes. For those who still believe that associating words are simple misunderstandings, we’re not the only ones to disagree on that. There were several ‘bigger picture’ issues that emerged from last Sunday’s post. First, a few thoughts on last week [...]

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Connecting the Dots – Politics, Real Estate and the Future

Greg Cooper — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:00:31 +0000

Lessons from MA The change in Massachusetts blew through with huge intensity this past week. To be sure there are some very specific NON political lessons that we can learn from that election. Will we be ready? Are we even paying attention to anything but the political ramifications? How many in real estate are standing pat by while a big [...]

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