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Tom Royce started The Real Estate Bloggers in 2005 when real estate was at it’s peak. The site has followed the industry from the highest heights to the deepest lows. We have strived to bring a reasoned analysis of the real estate industry for both professionals, pundits, buyers and sellers, voyeurs, and those just curious.
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What are the ingredients which are effective regarding successful Open House newspaper ads which result in bringing many potential buyers to one's Sunday afternoon open house?
P.S. Can you share with me the design of a very successful real estate agent's website as well?
Thanks so very much!
Hi there. I live in Virginia. I am looking to buy a home in the half a million range. I need to know a really good website where I can find homes from all over Northern Virginia. New and used.
I dont like the typical webistes I am finding. I want the gem.
Do you know of any? I have an agent but I also love to be independant and find things on my own.
Regards
Sarah
Hi Tom,
Our realtors north of the border recently hit a dip in the market as well, after a modest recovery from the downturn.
The reason here was the introduction of the Harmonized Sales Tax. New homes we only subject to the 5% Federal Sales Tax, but now they're also subject to the 8% Provincial (like your states) Sales Tax.
It was a mini boom before this came into effect, but since then, it's been only the well established and highly networked agents who are consistent with their sales.
Thanks for sharing,
Guy G.
Does anyone know a lender lending to forien investors?
Hello! I am trying to find a good place to market a Listing to potential Buyers moving from CA to Colorado. Any suggestions? Thank you,
Mark
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I've enjoyed 44 years as a real estate broker, educator and writer. Having recently written an ebook featuring tips on buying and selling distressed properties, I teach continuing education classes on foreclosures, auctions and short sales. Surprisingly, only about 10 percent of the agents attending my classes (MD/DC/VA) are comfortable in a buyer's market. Yet many market surveys indicate the savvy Investors who sold their inventories while prices were topping out are now searching to fill that void. With an extended housing glut, a pipeline flooded in delinquencies, servicers retrenching foreclosure activities due to MERS shortcuts and a mortgage securitization process that produced an off-the-balance-sheet shadow banking system, there is still time to discover that success is preparation meeting opportunity.
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thank you,
Tom, very good info on your site. I'll be subscribing. I like the diversity of topics you cover and your analysis of the market.
Just a suggestion: A Sacramento agent, broker and radio host just had a book published which focuses heavily on client recruitment and team building. Brent Gove (pretty well known as a speaker/agent) wrote, Momentum: A Strategic Guide to Success for Real Estate Agents and Brokers and two people have recommended it to me. I got a copy and while I'm only halfway through, he's a damn good writer and the information is focused and easy to follow. Lots of energy. It's not available as an E-book yet, but I think that is coming, as well. (ps: published by http://www.irishcanonpress.com (or something like that). ((Okay, just looked it up and that's where it is.) Oh, there's also a good bit of info on the value of DISC testing.
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Open houses have been well-attended. A recent open house on our new listing was busy from the moment the door opened, until closing. Buyers were not only looking at the house, but talking about their plans to purchase. This represents a change from the general outlook during two thousand eleven, when buyers were more hesitant to express their desire to purchase. Thanks for sharing.