The Canadian real estate market started 2010 with a 19.6 percent increase in prices. The average house price surged to $328,537 in January, compared with $274,711 a year ago, the Canadian Real Estate Association (CREA) reported. Although home resales dipped 2.8 per cent on a seasonally adjusted basis, home resales activity year over year was still up 58 per cent on an unadjusted basis from a year earlier.Scotia Capital economist Derek Holt predicted a rush to purchase to occur before new … [Read more...]
Outlook Brightens for European Commercial Real Estate Market
May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Continuing demand in the European commercial property market in the first quarter of 2010, increased confidence and spread interest to new areas, according to PropertyWire.com a recent report by Cushman & Wakefield. Foreign buyers were particularly active.Overall, analysts say the market experienced an all-around improvement in the early months of 2010. Even so, issues such as an increasingly polarized market bar a full recovery. For example, while the United Kingdom, Turkey and Sweden … [Read more...]
FIABCI World Congress 2010 in Bali, Indonesia
May 19, 2010 By 2 Comments
With great regret, I find myself longing to attend one of this years great upcoming events, the FIABCI 61 World Congress, held in Bali, Indonesia. The theme of the 2010 World Congress is "Save the World: Green Shoots for Sustainable Real Estate."This World Congress will feature keynote speakers from various countries from around the world. The presenters come from various professional and industrial backgrounds from government officials to company executives to business people from various … [Read more...]
This Month In Real Estate from Keller Williams Realty International – May 2010
May 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
Keller Williams Realty has released the May 2010 installment of This Month in Real Estate. This monthly series is hosted by Byron Ellington and Jay Papasan. Jay coauthored the Millionaire Real Estate Agent book with Gary Keller and Dave Jenks of Keller Williams Realty International. Viewers of this video will find timely information about what is going on in the current real estate market.Click here for the This Month in Real Estate video. … [Read more...]
Keller Williams CEO Anounces KW Worldwide
May 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Mark Willis, CEO of Keller Williams International announced at the 2010 KW Family Reunion the company was laying the ground work to expand beyond North America. On May 6th, 2010, it was announced that Chris Heller of The Heller Real Estate Group and Operating Principal of the Carmel / Del Mar, California Market Center would take the helm as President of KW Worldwide.Through 2010 Mr. Heller and a team of researchers will determine exactly where the company will begin its worldwide expansion. … [Read more...]
Randy Standard from VoicePad -an interview
May 19, 2010 By 1 Comment
Interviewer's Note: When we interview people for REIW, we like to find interesting people with interesting and often unique views on the real estate industry. These are people that you would love to talk shop with over lunch and people who challenge your thinking about our industry. Randy Standard is one of those people.He founded VoicePad - a unique integrated voice response system that has grown rapidly in the real estate industry, but that is not what sets him apart from others. What sets … [Read more...]
Keller Williams offers real estate sales training via KWConnect
May 18, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Keller Williams Realty provides agents with sales training delivered through streaming videos to all KW agents. Keller Williams University (KWU) is the delivery mechanism for real estate agent educational programs with content targeted at agents of all experience levels from the new agent through to the 7th Level mega-agent.The KWU content is delivered in many formats such as WORD documents, EXCEL spreadsheets, and includes a multitude of manuals and study guides in PDF format.To enhance … [Read more...]
Short Sale Break Down
May 12, 2010 By 1 Comment
Short Sales and Real Estate!I started Real Estate back in July of ’09. I practice all over the Phoenix metropolitan area. I missed the boom and by the time I started two thirds of all realtors left their profession; I actually started my career with a mop in one hand ready to help clean up after the party. Since I started I have had the luxury of only knowing the Foreclosure and Short Sale market. I have made so many calls to banks that AT&T called to see if my phone was stolen. I have … [Read more...]
Better Homes and Gardens / Pantone partner to provide tools to agents and sellers
May 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Better Homes and Gardens and Pantone announced today that they will be working together to provide interactive tools and expertise to agents and sellers on color choices when remodeling or staging their homes for sale."If you are selling a home right now, chances are you have a lot of competition and are doing whatever you can to retain every bit of appreciation," said Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate. "The strategic partnership program between Better … [Read more...]
RE/MAX re-launches recruiting website
May 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The pitched battle for momentum between franchisors in the real estate industry continues with REMAX International re-launching the website JoinREMAX.com according to an announcement sent out to industry brokers. The revised site will be accompanied by increased advertising and a more thorough explanation of the benefits and branding of the RE/MAX organization according to the announcement. … [Read more...]
