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Real estate’s spring buying season fails to launch

4/23/2014 5:13 PM

Mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have lowered their forecasts for home sales this year, citing low inventory and the affordability crunch that shortage of homes has spurred. After relatively weak home sales in the first two months of .....Read More

How to create an editorial calendar for your content marketing: Google Drive or Trello

4/23/2014 1:48 PM

If you’re anything like me, you are always looking for an easier way to stay organized with your content marketing plans. For the longest time, I used an Excel-style spreadsheet in Google Drive with different tabs for my editorial calendar, which included ideas, keyword focus, published content and the weekly task list. It was really effective for ...Read More

Neighborhood information like sex offender, school and crime data will fuel residential segregation

4/23/2014 12:00 PM

John Walko, a father of two who recently moved from Scranton, Pa., to a single-family rental in Charlotte, N.C., began his home search by filtering listings online based on location, price and photos -- the fun stuff. But as he continued to browse sites like Zillow and Trulia, he soon found himself digging through listings based on additional infor...Read More

Homes are going fastest in the San Francisco Bay Area

4/23/2014 10:17 AM

Homes in the San Francisco Bay Area are moving faster than anywhere else in the country, according to a new inventory market report from Trulia. For markets across the U.S., Trulia calculated the share of homes for sale in its .....Read More

New-home sales drop to 8-month low

4/23/2014 9:41 AM

Sales of new single-family houses hit an eight-month low in March, according to a report jointly released by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). New-home sales decreased 14.5 percent month over month to .....Read More

Google’s Street View now lets you travel back in time

4/23/2014 8:29 AM

Google has long allowed you to see what many houses look like using Street View, a feature of Google Maps. Now, you can also see what they used to look like, TechCrunch reports. When looking at site in Street View, .....Read More

3 reasons your leads aren’t closing and what you can do about it

4/23/2014 5:00 AM

Quick agent fame, overnight sensations and companies who build crowd followings fast have always scared me. Why? Because I know, billboards don’t make deals. Whether you’re marketing mansions or selling special spoons, the buzz you generate isn’t half as important as the clients who actually close the deal .....Read More

Brand or boutique? Agents will base decision on systems and services offered

4/23/2014 4:42 AM

Whether you’re a boutique brokerage operating out of a virtual office or providing services to agents at a traditional brick-and-mortar location, agents will decide whether they want to work for you based on the systems and services you have in .....Read More

Real estate disruption may not be what you think it is

4/23/2014 4:30 AM

When I was a journalist in the 1980s and 1990s, I penned 1,500 bylined articles that appeared in metro newspapers around the country. Last year, I resolved to use my old dry clippings to start fires in my wood-burning stove. .....Read More

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau taking mortgage complaints seriously

4/22/2014 10:39 AM

A Realtor friend of mine recently asked me about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: “Do they really do anything when somebody submits a complaint about their mortgage company? Can I tell clients that it’s not a waste of time to .....Read More

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