Speaking of Real Estate
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Are You LinkedIn?
By Todd Carpenter, Social Media Manager, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF REALTORS® During NAR’s 2009 Conference & Expo, I was able to grab a quick interview with Gary Rogers, a key contributor to our LinkedIn networking group. See what he had to say in this video:
Things to Be Thankful for
By Brian Summerfield, Online Editor, REALTOR® Magazine In the past couple of years, it hasn?t always been easy to find bright spots in real estate. Falling prices, declining sales volume, increases distressed properties, tightening credit, unemployment?all of these things have afflicted, and some still afflict, our industry since the downturn began sometime during late 2007 or [...]
What?s on Your Tech Wish List?
Budgets may be tight, but you?ve got to continually reinvest in your career and technology is an important part of that. So, as you look ahead to next year, what would you like to add? New camera? Upgrade to a smartphone? A netbook? Something else? Tell us what what?s on your wish list for the Buyer’s [...]
Two Men I?ll Remember
By Stacey Moncrieff, Editor in Chief, REALTOR® Magazine Often, we aren?t aware of the people who are positively influencing our life and work. In the past two days, I learned of the death of two such people: Mal Sherman of Baltimore and Thomas J. Graff of Oakland, Calif. Sherman was a real estate broker, who?in the early [...]
Short Sales Help in Plain Language
By Robert Freedman, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine Since the beginning of the short-sale problem, NAR members have been seeking plain-language, common-sense tips for dealing with these difficult transactions. We tried to help fill the information gap earlier this year with two free webinars, one in March and one in May, with Scott Thompson, a short-sale specialist [...]
A Quiet NAR Success on Its Calls for Action
By Robert Freedman, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine There are many reasons for the success of NAR’s most recent Call for Action, to which more than 18 percent of NAR members—a record— responded. First and foremost is the compelling subject of the CFA: getting the home buyer tax credit extended and expanded. As NAR Chief Ecionomist Lawrence Yun [...]
Praise for HouseLogic
The small but dedicated staff of HouseLogic, and the Web design and development team at Brooklyn, N.Y.-based Huge Inc., scored a compliment from tech consultant Robert Hahn in a piece for InmanNews. Hahn offered encouraging words for my colleagues, who’ve been working overtime–and then some–to build a site that promises to inspire and inform home owners. At the [...]
Interesting Developments at the Board of Directors Meeting
By Brian Summerfield, Online Editor, REALTOR® Magazine There was a lot of ground covered during the Board of Directors meeting Monday at the 2009 REALTORS® Conference & Expo. Here are some of the highlights: ? The REALTOR® Property Resource (RPR): Attendees got a guided tour of this impressive new site, which ultimately aims to cover pretty [...]
Buyer Reps: Helping Everyone Win in a Short Sale
By Robert Freedman, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine There?s a temptation among buyers hoping to land a good deal with a short sale to avoid committing themselves with money and effort until the seller?s lender gives its OK, but that?s a sure-fire way to ensure the deal won?t close, short-sales trainer Lynn Madison said Sunday at the [...]
Listing Videos: They?re That Easy
By Robert Freedman, Senior Editor, REALTOR® Magazine Making informative and even entertaining videos of your listings seems like a complicated undertaking involving a professional camera, lights, editing equipment, and a lot of knowledge of how all that equipment works, but in fact you can be uploading videos tomorrow without too much trouble. I’ll be talking about this [...]
