Keyword: market conditions
Adapt in 2011 by becoming your own real estate secret shopper
People think I love to shop, and quite honestly, they would be correct in making that assumption. I’ve mentioned it many times that I find myself in a mall on a weekly basis. I also tend to snoop electronic stores and phone stores such as Sprint and AT&T, not because I want to see if I can find great deals, ...
Pessimism – Your New Paradigm?
The World is Upside Down Between the credit crisis, housing bubble, Wall Street collapse, ridiculous food and goods pricing, gasoline pricing, and overall downward pressure on optimism, it seems on the inside that the world is just upside down. Every Man for Themselves I’ve watched blogs become vacated and static, voices go silent, and excitement go dormant time and time ...
Financial Crisis Slideshow
The U.S. Financial Crisis Above is not just the first place winner in slideshare.net‘s Credit Crisis in Under 30 Slides first place winner, it is a recap of recent events in our economy. It’s tough to present such a complex idea and the presentation has been called “finger pointing” by some and others opine that it simply “highlight[s] that a ...
It Will All Be Over Soon
T-Minus 37 Hours and Counting Within the next 37 hours or so, we’ll know who the next President of the United States is going to be. I’ve reached the point where I’m less concerned with who it is than simply knowing which one it will be so we can return to our lives as normal (or as normal as they ...
Is BusinessWeek Bottom-Fishing for Articles?
Please read this BusinessWeek article… Where Bottom-Fishers are Fishing? The first time I read it I tried to make sense of it and didn’t make a big deal. Then I read it again and it managed to hit a button. Yes I am in Miami, and yes our market has been hit hard, but those of us pounding the pavement ...
Lawrence Yun on the Current Market
Lawrence Yun Talks About Fannie & Freddie National Association of Realtors’ Chief Economist, Lawrence Yun talks about the Freddie & Fannie debacle noting the “confusion in their public mission” between their for-profit motives regarding shareholders possibly conflicting with their public mission of making credit available in times of crisis. “What the policy makers need to really consider once we go ...
Yes there is a bubble – yes, real estate is about perception
Ines very intuitively pointed out that there is a a perception issue around the country regarding the real estate profession. I would take that comment one step further- there is a perception issue with anything relating to the economy. I’ve been observing consumer sentiment for as long as I’ve been in business. I enjoy the study of politics and public ...













