Organized real estate knows how to market listings to homebuyers, but it doesn’t have a clue how to cultivate them. Google has an astounding 58 percent of all Internet searches, and about the same percentage in market share for real-estate related searches.
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Days on market are dropping, prices have begun an upsurge and multiple contracts have returned. A walk down memory lane? No, just another market turning from buyer to seller in the last few months in the shadow of the White House.
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No longer only for selling livestock, estate goods and vacant land, auctions have become the fastest growing way to buy and sell homes and not necessarily as a last ditch effort.
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Homeowner association members who pay their assessments late or not at all sometimes come up with some interesting excuses. Here are five common ones:
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The final 2007 figures from RealtyTrac.com show that foreclosure actions increased 79 percent when compared with 2006. Roughly 2.2 million households received default notices, auction sale notices and notices of bank repossessions. Not all of these homes were lost — about 1.3 million were sold at the courthouse steps but the rest are hardly safe: [...]

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This is a question I’m sometimes asked as I lead workshops across the country, and I wanted to share my answer with you since I really think it can help your business.
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