.!. Forever Lulu movies .!. Police Academy movies In Florida, low prices and a large number of bank-owned distressed properties are attracting more international investors. The Florida Association of REALTORS® offers a two-part article on how real estate brokers can attract and work with overseas clients interested in investing in U.S. properties.Key points include:Know the basics about the real estate systems in the countries you want to work with Network with brokers and buyers of those … [Read more...]

REALTORS continue to search for tools that provide impact to potential buyers. One of the latest trends is REALTORS using videos of both properties and themselves to drum up business. Are they alone? It appears not.According to a 2008 comscore report City of God the movie The Legend of Bagger Vance movie full Incubus divx The Queen of Spades movies Never Cry Werewolf movies Google owned YoutTube actually overtook and passed Yahoo for number of searches. Aside from the obvious … [Read more...]

With the reach of Facebook extending well over 200 million accounts and now gaining popularity rapidly in the middle aged demographics, Facebook Groups are rapidly gaining traction as well. HomeGain , REMAX and even individual brokerages have created their own groups.REALTORS who are already using Facebook find it easier to connect and communicate while in the comfort of their favorite social networking community. Many new to Facebook are finding this a good reason to try it out.Other … [Read more...]

HomeGain announced today that they are now powering the home valuation tool on the Washington Post's website. HomeGain’s instant home valuation tool allows visitors to the newly re launched real estate section of washingtonpost.com to receive an instant free home valuation estimate along with information on recent home sales and comparable home data."We are delighted to assist the Washington Post in their efforts to create useful and necessary tools for anyone interested in Washington DC … [Read more...]

Real estate social media site Activerain recently announced some new features that they are making available through a subsidiary called Realtysoft.  Essentially, Activerain is gathering MLS IDX feeds from across the United States and Canada, and providing the repackaged data back to real estate agents for use on their websites,  blogs, etc.  This service is currently being provided "free".This is likely to be a limited time offer - as Activerain is in the profit generation business (as is … [Read more...]

Mitch Ribak is an interesting guy in the real estate business. These days, not many people can say that they have a team of 20 some odd agents and employees, in Florida (arguably a tough market), your business is GROWING and that all of your volume is due to the internet.The key to marketing for Mitch isresponse, follow up and converting leads. Want to find out what he does that others don't? Check out his marketing site Cybermutt Wolf Creek release and learn how he markets at 100MPH. The … [Read more...]

.!.According to some real estate professionals, they do! The new trend in lighted signs extends the hours that drive by traffic will stop, see the sign and call on either the agent OR on their automated voice information service. The other contention is that lighted signs actually pull in traffic who see them and are drawn into them much like a moth to a flame. I am not sure that is true, but in this tight buyer's market, it may well be worth looking into.In a recent blog post A Sound of … [Read more...]

In one Louisville RE/MAX real estate firm, the average age of the 120 agents is 55 years old. This is typical of many brokerages who have many of their agents over 60 years of age. These experienced agents are not being replaced by near as many younger agents. They have built up solid books of business over the years and are now starting to need exit strategies that will provide them passive income into the future.A growing trend is to try to pair agents up into a mentoring relationship with … [Read more...]

Many brokers have to sell as agents or teams in order to make ends meet. A brokerage is not profitable unless it is stand alone profitable with out the income generated by the sales efforts of the broker. So where does your brokerage stack up? Real Estate Industry Watch is taking a survey.To participate in the survey, you need to click whether or not your borkerage is profitable on our "survey section" on the right hand side of this page. … [Read more...]