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Real Estate Marketing

Who Does Lead Generation Work For Anyway?

by Ben Roberts | November 4, 2009
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I’m a marketing director at a real estate firm.  If I had to sum up what I do every day in three words it would be, “I generate leads.”  It’s both much easier and much harder than you would think.  Confused?  Let me take you inside and show you why everyone in the real estate [...]

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Real Estate Tips

Earning Your Keep: What Makes a Good Real Estate Agent

by Michael Creel | January 18, 2008

In the last few years I’ve noticed much of the public has lost respect for Realtors and view them as overpaid “salespeople” that get a lot of money for simply showing a house or two and writing up a simple contract. For some, that perception will never change simply because they see it as a [...]

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Foreclosures

Foreclosures, Census Data, and Tough Times for Real Estate Agents

by Joshua Dorkin | October 3, 2006

It looks like pending foreclosures from adjustable rate mortgages are affecting lower income people more then the rich, explains Al Tompkins at Poynter Online. Tompkins looks at recent stories in the St. Petersburg Times (Florida) and Winston-Salem Journal (N.C.) which illustrate this quite clearly.

Black homeownership is falling in Louisville, Kentucky according the the US [...]

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Housing

Pending Housing Sales Index Up In August

by Joshua Dorkin | October 2, 2006

Pending home sales data for August was just released by the National Association of Realtors. According to the Pending Home Sales Index, “contracts signed in August, rose 4.3 percent to a level of 110.1 from a reading of 105.6 in July, but is 14.1 percent lower than August 2005.”
David Lereah, chief economist of the [...]

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Housing

Median Home Prices Fall First Time in 11 Years

by Joshua Dorkin | September 25, 2006

The National Association of Realtors today reported that the median home price in the US fell in August to $225,000 down 1.7% from August of 2005. This is the first time a year over year decline in median home prices has occured since April 1995.
According to The New York Times: “David Lereah, chief economist of [...]

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Commentary

Sunday Real Estate Wrap Up

by Joshua Dorkin | August 27, 2006

After a long day of rest, I’ve emerged from my sports cocoon to bring you my Sunday wrap up. I’d like to first congratulate Tiger Woods for his 4th straight tournament win, and I want to wish Andre Agassi good luck in the final tournament of his career. Ok . . . back [...]

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