ORLANDO FL – Closed sales, pending sales, median prices and average prices all rose across Florida’s housing market during November (2012), while the inventory of homes and condos for sale got smaller, according to housing data released by Thursday (Dec. 20, 2012) by Florida Realtors®, formerly the Florida Association of Realtors®. “With home sales strongly …
Florida’s Housing Market Continued Upswing During November Read More »
NEWTOWN SQUARE PA – Winning is in, and losing has never been a good thing. As the National Association of REALTORS® approaches the 2012 edition of its Nationwide Open House Weekend, scheduled for April 28-29 (2012; Saturday and Sunday), one challenge that faces real estate brokers and salespeople across Pennsylvania is proving to consumers they’ll …
Challenge For Brokers And Agents: Calming Consumer Fears Read More »
HARRISBURG PA – Representatives of Gov. Tom Corbett and majority Republicans in the Pennsylvania Legislature worked through Sunday (Feb. 5, 2012) to reach a tentative agreement that would impose a fee on drillers who extract natural gas from Marcellus Shale, buried almost a mile underground across much of northern and western Pennsylvania. The drilling fee …
Compromise Flat Fee Proposed For Marcellus Shale Gas Wells Read More »
NEW YORK NY – The previously high-growth $7.4 billion market for home organization and storage has slowed down due to the housing collapse and enduring economic problems, according to “Home Organization in the U.S: General Purpose, Closet, Garages, and Storage Sheds,” a report released Monday (Nov. 14, 2011) from a market research firm called Packaged …
Generational Tastes, Move To Smaller Homes Driving Storage Read More »
BENSALEM PA – The downturn in the U.S. housing market has given home-builders an opportunity to reinvent themselves, a company president told those in attendance at the annual fall meeting of the Urban Land Institute, because “builders won’t make money doing things the way they used to,” Orleans Homes CEO George E. Casey Jr. said. …
Time For Home Builders’ To Reinvent Themselves, CEO Says Read More »
WASHINGTON DC – Proposed legislation that would guide federal and state banking regulators on easing the flow of acquisition, development and construction credit, intended to benefit home builders who find it increasingly difficult to assemble funds for new projects, is just what the housing industry needs, according to the National Association of Home Builders. The …
Home Builders Would Love Legislation Offering More Credit Read More »
PHILADELPHIA PA – How many ways can real estate clients and prospects contact you? Maybe more importantly, how many ways do they KNOW they can contact you? There could be a huge difference between the two and, if so, you may be missing business opportunities. Worse yet, you may be opening the door to competitors. …
Provide Your Clients With Points Of Any And All Contact Read More »
The rage in real estate communications these days focuses on the rise of Internet-based social media. Can you survive in the business without a Twitter account and a Facebook page? Sure, although probably not as successfully as you will with them. Twitter, Facebook, Linked-In, instant messaging and similar applications are big for real estate because, …
To Succeed, Put Your Real Self Into Real Estate Messages Read More »
NEWTOWN SQUARE PA – Joblessness in Pennsylvania, according to the latest statistics (as of Aug. 21, 2009) available from the state Department of Labor and Industry, is running at 8.5 percent. With unemployment and under-employment still high across much of the state, more people are looking at real estate sales as either a new or …
Yes, You Can Work And Prosper Part-Time In Real Estate Read More »
HARRISBURG PA – A change to the Pennsylvania Real Estate Licensing and Registration Act, signed into law last Monday (July 6, 2009) by Gov. Edward Rendell, might prevent heartache for future purchasers who find their dream home deal has fallen through. Senate Bill 241, written by Bucks County (PA) state Sen. Tommy Tomlinson and passed …
New Law Affecting Brokers Could Free Up Escrow Money Read More »
