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Selling Real Estate in the YouTube World
2008-03-27 18:50:00
Participants: Matt Fagioli, DiamondDwellings.com Moderator Rudy Bachraty, Trulia.com Christian  Sterner, WelcomeMat.com Bob Stewart, ActiveRain.com Tony Grey, Vidlisting.com Tara Jones, AtlantaDwelling.tv   Session: The talk is about using video to sell homes. The need for quality production is an important part of the theme. An interesting interview by WelcomeMat that shows the power of a professional presentation and a testimonial. Fun video from AtlantaDwellings.tv. Tara is ...
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RETech South - Widgets, Plug-Ins, and Tools
2008-03-27 18:50:00
Participants: Kevin Boer, Moderator,   3O ceansRealEstate.com Mark Warner, RealEspace.com Micheal Simonsen, AltosResearch.com Dustin Luther, 4realz.net Discussion: Widgets are easy to install is the opening salvo of the discussion. As Dustin said, if your webmaster is telling you that adding the widget is expensive, you probably need to get a new webmaster. Business Benefits of Widgets: Michael says the widgets will answer questions that people visiting ...
More About: Tools , Real Estate , South , Plug-ins

RETech South - The Dreaded SEO
2008-03-27 15:40:00
Participants: Kevin Boer Moderator, 3 Oceans Real Estate Jason Benesch. Real Estate Tomato Matt Dunlap, RealEspace.com Desiree Scales, Bella Web Design Bo Gilbert, MLC New Home Marketing Mary McKnight, RSS Pieces Session: Jason talks about how Google looks at content as a research paper. Layout of posts is very important. Matt gives an overview of SEO as a part of your total web strategy. ...
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RETech South - Been There, Blogged That; What?s Next
2008-03-27 15:40:00
Participants: Kevin Boer Moderator, 3 Oceans Real Estate Pat Kitano, Transparent RE Dustin Luther, 4Realz Rudy Bachraty, Trulia Jason Benesch. Real Estate Tomato John Washburn, Active Rain Carol Flammer, Flammer Relations   Session: Kevin Boer starts things off with Is blogging a waste of time? Great question for realtors. John Washburn is recommending that hyperlocal is the way to hit the market and become the top of  ...
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At ReTech South Today
2008-03-27 13:01:00
If you are attending the conference, come over and say hello. Post from: The Real Estate Bloggers At ReTech South Today

Some Scary Trends in Housing Employment Statistics
2008-03-27 11:32:00
If you follow trends then these numbers illustrate how overblown the housing industry has been and the large the impact of the recent downturn has been on employment in the industry. Simply Hired has a very cool tool for trending job growth (or loss) in specific job categories. These numbers show the demand for specific jobs in ...
More About: Real Estate , Trends , Employment , Scary , Statistics

Palm Beach Kimmel Mansion Sells For Over 75 Million Dollars
2008-03-26 19:31:00
Housing prices are dropping nationwide except if you are in the ultra expensive bracket, there the market is holding firm. The Kimmel Mansion on Palm Beach ’s Billionaire’s Row has sold for over 75 million dollars according to those close to the deal. Some of the new buyers neighbors include Netscape founder Jim Clark, rocker Rod Stewart, ...
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Mortgages and Foreclosures, The Next Political Pinball
2008-03-26 14:55:00
Folks, if my political prognosticating hat is on correctly, our real estate industry is going to be front and center in the 2008 Presidential Race. The New York Times, the paper of record and the barometer for how the media covers things, has 2 big articles on foreclosures today as their top stories. On one hand ...
More About: Political , Foreclosures , Mortgage Fraud , Foreclosure , Mortgage

Why I Can Say Things About The Home You Are Listing That You Can Not!
2008-03-25 21:42:00
Dustin over at 4Realz.net has an interesting letter he received about a MLS that is looking into opening up their listings to comments. Go give it a read and then come back. For those of you not wanting to leave it essentially wonders about the issues that the MLS would face opening up homes to comments ...
More About: Home , Listing , Things

Will Wall Street Cutbacks Hurt New York City Real Estate
2008-03-25 15:27:00
New York City’s real estate is tied to the financial center in Wall Street . The co-dependence between the two entities has been shown by the cities rising real estate costs in the face of a national decline. But the gravy train that is Wall Street may be coming to an end by the tightening credit ...
More About: Estate , New York , Real Estate , Hurt

Federal Reserves Actions A Direct Result of Washington?s Bumbling
2008-03-25 15:15:00
Last weeks actions by the Federal Reserve were not done in a vacuum. Wall Street is desperately searching for a bottom in the credit markets so they can get back in. They know that their shareholders will be very upset if they deploy major assets before the market gets it legs. And most thought that Washington ...
More About: Housing Bubble , Foreclosure , Direct , Result

Why Banks Need To Work Hard Communicating With Potential Foreclosures to Av
2008-03-24 15:34:00
You have to imagine that when someone is being foreclosed upon there is going to be a great deal of anger in the arrangement. They are being forced out of their home because they messed up. The homeowner did not fulfill their obligations so they are mad at the bank, mad at the world, and ...
More About: Real Estate , Foreclosures , Banks , Work , Hard

Google Calendar Target of Spammers?
2008-03-24 14:07:00
If you are like me, Google Calendar has become a major part of your life. Our family all uses it and it has made scheduling issues much easier to deal with as my wife has her calendar, I have mine, and then we have the massive one with the boys schedules on it. We really ...
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Tennessee Flying-Saucer House Sells For $135K
2008-03-21 23:00:00
Offbeat homes definately have a different vibe to them and selling them has to be a bear for any agent. To sell this Flying Saucer home in Chattanooga, Tennessee the agent used an auction. And while the price may not have been out of sight, finding a buyer probably was the best thing to happen in ...
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Bernanke Could Be Upside Down in Washington Home
2008-03-21 15:41:00
The housing bubble is fairly indiscriminate to those it affects. Ben Bernanke , Chairman of the Federal Reserve, knows this all to well. His Washington home that he purchased in 2004 close to the nexus of the housing bubble may now be upside down. Upside down is when the value of the home purchase is less ...
More About: Real Estate , Home

Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae Trim Reserves To Revitilize the Market
2008-03-21 15:27:00
Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were given the go ahead to trim their capital reserves to increase liquidity in the mortgage markets. The move will allow the two to add up to 200 billion in new mortgages for the United States housing market. Of course there is a down side. By reducing the capital of ...
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Housing Bubble, Whats The Trouble, Song
2008-03-20 23:49:00
Great find by Binyamin Appelbaum at the Boston Real Estate Now blog over at the Boston Globe. Post from: The Real Estate Bloggers Housing Bubble , Whats The Trouble, Song

So You Want To Be A Blogging Superstar
2008-03-20 17:07:00
The New York Times has a sobering article up on the risks and perils of being a blogger. The real estate sphere is much different as many agents have a 6 percent motivation besides self aggrandizement to produce quality content. Here are some of the tips the Times article offers: Don’t expect to get rich. Write about ...
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Connecticut MLS Launches Public Portal - CTreal.com
2008-03-20 14:57:00
The statewide MLS system for Connecticut has launched a new portal for the general public to search their listings. While it is not the most glamorous site, it is groundbreaking none the less. Instead of watching their franchise erode as almost all of the other MLS systems across the country are doing, they are proactively ...
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Real Estate (Agents?) Causing Starbucks Downturn?
2008-03-20 14:41:00
Starbucks Chief Executive Howard Schultz thinks the downturn in real estate is causing sales at his stores to take a dive. But I am wondering whether it is because of the general hit to the economy or the amount of real estate agents who have had to kick the habit as their revenue has dropped. Face ...
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Noelle Knox to Appointed Real Estate Editor For AP
2008-03-19 16:11:00
Noelle Knox, formerly of USA today, has been hired to head the Associated Presses new focus on real estate news. This is part of the new strategy by AP to be focused on capturing the what is happening in the real estate world in a broader manner while maintaining the breaking nature of their mission. One of ...
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JP Morgan?s Buying Bear Stearns For Manhattan Real Estate?
2008-03-19 16:00:00
The furor of the week over the Bear Stearns buyout has focused on the 2 dollar share price JP Morgan paid. What is interesting in the deal is how JP Morgan has gotten a high priced real estate asset, The Bear Stearns Headquarters, for a relative pittance. The building is valued at roughly 1.1 billion ...
More About: Buying , Estate , Real Estate , Real

Wordpress 2.5 Coming Soon
2008-03-19 01:31:00
Wordpress 2.5 is coming soon. Since many of us use Wordpress to host our weblogs it is always good to be ready for the changes. To see the new version of Wordpress click here for a demo site. To play with the admin console, click here and then use the username admin and password demo. ...
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Rental Market Bright Spot On Real Estate Horizon
2008-03-18 13:40:00
If the surge in demand in rental units is a surprise to any of you please go back into your dark room and close your eyes. Shelter is a base item in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. As they say, if you have food, shelter, and water you can live. So it is no surprise that ...
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IKEA Homes Coming to England
2008-03-17 18:12:00
IKEA, the name that savvy 20 somethings think of when buying inexpensive furniture for their first home, is getting into the English home building business. They are focusing on their core strength, low cost, high quality construction that is modular. The apartments and townhouses range from £99,500 to £149,500 if purchased outright or less if ...
More About: England , Homes , Ikea

Using Google Adwords to Drive Traffic? Slim Down and Save Money
2008-03-17 14:59:00
If you are using Google Adwords to drive traffic to your real estate site it would make a great deal of sense to sit down with your web designer and slim down your page (send them this post as it will help them). Google Adwords uses a quality score to determine how much you are ...
More About: Money , Traffic , Save Money , Drive

Trump Tweaks Palm Beach Officials With Plans To Turn 125 Million Dollar Man
2008-03-17 14:42:00
Donald Trump is an expert at link bait. First he puts his home in Palm Beach up for sale for a record 125 million dollars. Then after a couple of years of no action, he decides to announce to the world that he is going to turn the property into a hotel. Now if you know ...
More About: Dollar , Plans

The Feds Tricky Road Unwinding the Credit Crisis
2008-03-17 12:56:00
Megan McArdle, on the Atlantic Magazine blog,  has an excellent analysis of the recent dance between the Federal Reserve, Bear Stearns, and JP Morgan. The averting of a credit crisis that has been projected by the bubble bloggers may be short lived, but overall the Federal Reserve did it’s job in this instance. Yes, this is ...
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Bear Stearns Selling, Fed Rate Cut, and CNBC Streaming Live
2008-03-17 03:33:00
A Sunday (discount) rate cut came out today after the announcement that  is buying Bear Stearns for a pittance as the company is on the verge of collapse. JPMorgan Chase & Co. agreed to buy Bear Stearns Cos. for about $240 million, less than a 10th of its value last week, after a run ...
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Inspirada and Kyle Canyon Las Vegas Projects Missing Payments
2008-03-15 13:25:00
It looks like the Inspirada and Kyle Canyon Gateway subdivisions outside of Las Vegas are in deep trouble as nearly non existent sales have empties the coffers. Expect to see more stories like this as the deep pocket investors are bailing out on developments across the country. Two Las Vegas housing projects have each missed an interest payment ...
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