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The Age Gap Between Buyers and Real Estate Agents

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The Wall Street Journal Development Blog has an interesting post on the age gap that is occurring between buyers and agents. The average age of real estate agents in the United States is 51 while the average buyer was […]

5Mar2008 | Tom Royce | 9 comments | Continued
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Selling Luxury Waterfront Properties From The Other Side

An enterprising real estate agent in Australia,Anthony Gorman of Ken Guy Maroochydore, is taking the real estate home tour to a new level. In his attempt to sell luxury waterfront properties he has rented out a luxury cruise yacht to take 44 prospective buyers on the home tour and see the property from the water side.
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9Feb2008 | Tom Royce | 0 comments | Continued
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Does Your Real Estate Website Have a Pulse?

In the past week I have talked to a couple of real estate brokers about  how they are using the web to sell homes. They know that this is where the hot leads are  coming from and want to capitalize with it, but are they doing all they can do to maximize how to best capture […]

15Jan2008 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
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Common Real Estate Listings Data Standard Adopted by Trulia, Yahoo!, and Zillow.com

In what will be a benefit for real estate agents and brokers, the major online real estate listing aggregators have agreed upon a common XML based listing standard for listings. The format will be designed to be interoperable with the Real Estate Transaction Standards (RETS). Think of it, write it once, publish it many times. […]

10Jan2008 | Tom Royce | 2 comments | Continued
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Realius: How To Market in a Web 2.0 World

What is the cry that is heard across the real estate spectrum? The one I am hearing is that there are not enough buyers and too many agents. Red Oak Realty in Berkeley, California has found a way to turn the down time into a great fun tool that will bring people in and raise […]

20Dec2007 | Tom Royce | 3 comments | Continued
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FrontDoor Will Compete With Zillow For Top Real Estate Portal Position

Let me make a bet.
Zillow will win this battle. A division of E.W. Scripps, Scripps Networks, is launching a new real estate portal , FrontDoor.com, to go head to head with Zillow as the destination for real estate discussion and more importantly, the advertising dollars that follow them.
But they have a huge hurdle […]

13Dec2007 | Tom Royce | 5 comments | Continued
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Fizber, Web 2.0 Meets For Sale By Owner

Fizber is a new site that marries For Sale By Owner listings with an exciting array of web technologies that make it very easy for buyers to find their future homes. The foundation for Fizber is a traditional real estate sales site for FSBO’s. They provide low cost listings with a menu of related services […]

4Dec2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued
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Ivanka Trump Interview Shows Potential With International Buyers

The Atlanta Journal Constitution ran an interview with Ivanka Trump in the paper recently and this question and answer really popped out at me.

Q: And of those contracts, how many are foreign investors? We’re starting to see a lot foreign investment in the U.S.
A: We’re seeing that in all of our properties.I think [the […]

3Dec2007 | Tom Royce | 4 comments | Continued
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Why Market Online Instead of In The Newspapers? (Hint, thats where the people are)

According to Compete.com internet traffic for October, 2007 is up 24.3 percent over October, 2006.

So when the sellers tell you that they want their ego listing in the local paper, show them this stat and put that hundred dollars or so into a custom landing page for the home. That will really impress the […]

30Nov2007 | Tom Royce | 5 comments | Continued
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Newspaper Advertising Down, Online Advertising Growing, You Make The Call

Hey Real Estate agents and brokers, are you still having trouble kicking the newspaper advertising habit. Well, don’t be the last one throwing money into dark, grainy pictures and smudged type. It looks from the new numbers released that many are fleeing the newsprint to online.
So if your boss thinks that putting ads in […]

28Nov2007 | Tom Royce | 6 comments | Continued
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