Keyword: real estate sales
The 11 most expensive homes across America
We recently reported on America’s top 10 least expensive homes and found listings for as low as $3,000 and while we enjoy finding the deals across the nation, we wanted to contrast those ten listings with the following eleven which are the most expensive cities in the top 11 largest metropolitan areas in America and note the large disparity in ...
Will real estate soon be sold online like a commodity?
Social commerce online and real estate Could social commerce be coming to real estate? Could we be near the day where homes are a commodity like shoes or purses? Could the world of “I’ll only buy it if I know the seller” over-transparency make it to real estate soon? A new startup is being announced today, Copious, which simply prompts ...
Explaining the home buying process in simple terms – infographic
Simplifying the buy vs. sell proposition Personal finance site and application, Mint has become well known for their infographics that explain complicated financial investments in simple terms. Below, Mint has created an infographic to compare renting versus selling and ultimately how to sell a home. It is a great summary that can help your first time buyers understand the process ...
New 2012 AGBeat media kit available now
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Is it time to bury the past and rise up? Is it time to advise “buy”?
It’s 2011. Not 2010 or 2009. Viva 2011 What’s your real estate market like this week? Is it better than it was a year or two ago? Back then we had the difficult task of sharing mostly bad news. A rational Fear Of Loss kept buyers who wanted to move from making a move. It was simple logic, buy too ...
Ready to sell homes with bunkers? You’d better be- bunker sales up 1000%
On a serious note The world is on fire. Not literally, but Japan’s earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis along with uprisings across the Middle East, economic disaster and global warming have some people believing the world is in serious trouble and they should protect themselves and their families. Guns can’t protect anyone from a nuclear disaster or attack, so some ...
Reuters poll predicts home sales will drop in 2011
Over the past several months, existing home sales have seen an uptick, but according to a Reuters poll which analyzed 26 leading economists’ predictions, “economists now expect home prices will fall 2.3% in 2011, and then begin a slight recovery in 2012.” By the end of the year, the total price drop from the peak of the housing market in ...
Existing home sales up in January- now is it a buyer’s market?
Even though the existing home sales rose a measly 2.7% according to the National Association of Realtors, it is the third month in a row of increase and the first time in seven months that a month performed better than the same month the year prior, having risen 5.3% over January 2010. Although the challenge of financing buyers remains, there ...
Sales up, prices down, how is the overall market performing?
With a struggling economy and slumping real estate sector, all eyes are on signs of recovery which are slowly trickling our way. Home sales are up and prices are down, but are these really signs of a recovery? Perhaps, perhaps not… For the second month in a row, existing home sales rose, according to the National Association of Realtors with ...
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 ...
Home sales show signs of steadying real estate sector
After a record crash in new home sales in May with a dip of 32.7% after the tax credit expiration, new home sales remain slow but have improved 23.6%, showing hope in the new home sector. Existing home sales however have dipped an additional 5.1%. Neither number is pretty, but neither is dramatically good or bad, given the circumstances. New ...
Does your print marketing need some botox? Here’s what the doctor ordered
The real estate industry is comprised of hundreds of thousands of people, many of whom have no background in advertising or marketing which means that sometimes the independently launched marketing campaigns lack polish. So let’s take a quick peek at some easy ways to jazz up your marketing and the example below is a flyer that was in front of ...
Home sellers’ asking price reductions declined in March
Asking price cuts decline The percentage of U.S. home sellers cutting their asking price declined again in March, and home owners made smaller reductions in prices, according to Zillow.com. 20.7% of homes for sale on Zillow had at least one price cut as of the end of March, down from 23.1% in February. March marked the third month in a ...
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