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Vimeo video school teaches anyone how to make better videos

AGBeat — Fri, 19 Aug 2011 05:05:39 +0000

Vimeo is schooling budding videographers Vimeo Video School has recently launched as a “fun place for anyone to learn how to make better videos.” The site offers video lessons and tutorials like the one above, created to instruct on improvement on any videographer’s skills from starters to professionals. We have long advocated for professional real estate videography over Blair Witch [...]

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Housing market – a quick overview of sales, shadows and sentiments

Tara Steele — Sat, 02 Apr 2011 11:00:56 +0000

We know that housing news is hard to keep up with and it’s not like it all comes out on one day. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if sales data, price information, construction stats, foreclosure information and consumer morale reports came out on one day in one report with a bow on top? Yeah, we do to as it is a [...]

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Why builder confidence levels in real estate market are still low

Tara Steele — Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:42:18 +0000

For builders of single family homes, confidence levels in the real estate market in December remain unchanged from November according to the National Association of Home Builders (NAHB)/ Wells Fargo Housing Market Index (HMI) report release today. The HMI analyzes confidence in current sales conditions and sales expectations in the next six months (both of which remain unchanged) as well [...]

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Foreclosures lag, consumer attitudes continue to sour

Lani Rosales — Tue, 14 Dec 2010 03:04:51 +0000

As we recently reported, foreclosure sales volume is down 31% while the average discount is up 32% and we the drumbeat here and elsewhere continues to sound “jobs, jobs, jobs.” There has been an increase in foreclosure filings as well as sales this year, so Trulia and RealtyTrac teamed up to survey consumer attitudes and found that 58% of Americans [...]

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Shadow inventory threatens office vacancies

Erica Ramus — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 19:31:12 +0000

For months, real estate experts have been whispering fearfully of “the shadow inventory” in residential sales. Now, we’re starting to hear rumblings of shadow inventory threatening the commercial market, particularly with respect to office vacancies. Shadow inventory is the inventory of homes that are probably going to be for sale really soon, but are not on the market just yet. [...]

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Five best and five worst commercial real estate markets

Erica Ramus — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 08:12:38 +0000

Honolulu is hot hot hot According to a Moody’s report earlier this month, U.S. commercial real estate markets showed some spark of life in the last quarter of 2009. The rating agency attributed that improvement to increasing demand and a shrinking supply of current inventory. Moody’s listed the five best markets in the U.S. during Q4: Honolulu Orange County, Calif. [...]

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It’s Important to Know All Things Real Estate if That’s What You Sell!

Melissa Zavala — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 11:00:19 +0000

How Well Do You Know Your Product? Several years back, our family purchased a new car. At that time, I recall that the salesperson was not very knowledgeable about the features of the vehicle. My husband and I had done our research and already decided on this particular car, so we really didn’t need to hear a huge sales pitch. [...]

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Forbes’ Top Ten Best Housing Markets Across America

Lani Rosales — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:24:23 +0000

How does your city rank? Forbes.com released their list of Top 10 Best Housing Markets based primarily on the stability of each metro area as measured by affordability rankings and foreclosure rates as an indicator of a lack of excess inventory, making the top cities what they call the best opportunities for home shoppers. Lists are a dime a dozen, [...]

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The Good News- Home Prices Up, Bad News- 25% Underwater

Lani Rosales — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 02:48:04 +0000

The Good Today’s S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices showed several cities enjoyed rising home prices recorded in the fourth quarter of 2009 like San Francisco where prices rose 4.8% from Q4 2008, followed by a 3% increase in Dallas and a 2.7% increase in San Diego. Washington, Denver, and Boston also saw price increases. Nationally, the home prices dropped 2.5% but [...]

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As Predicted, Multiple Generations Sharing Homes on the Rise

Lani Rosales — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:50:58 +0000

Multi-generational housing Over the last 12 months, 37% of Coldwell Banker Real Estate real estate sales professionals noted an increase in buyers looking to purchase homes to suite more than one generation of their family, according to a recent Coldwell Banker survey of its network of professionals. Southern New Hampshire Realtor, Monika McGillicuddy said, “I am seeing the same thing. [...]

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