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		<title>HomeGain  completes survey on Agent marketing preferences</title>
		<description><![CDATA[HomeGain recently published their survey of the Top Ten Marketing Strategies for Real Estate Agents. This survey was conducted December 2009 through February 2010 and measured what marketing channels agents are currently using in marketing and what they intend to use in 2010. This provided some interesting results.
“While Realtors are increasingly moving their marketing activities [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/homegain-completes-survey-on-agent-marketing-preferences/</link>
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		<title>Tax Credit Coming to an End?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The First Time Home Buyer Tax Credit of 2009 was given new life late last year. President Obama extended the original credit end date until April 30th for purchases and buyers under contract before then have until the end of June to close escrow and claim the credit. The credit has been a success to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/tax-credit-coming-to-an-end/</link>
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		<title>International Living Reveals Top 10 Best Countries to Live</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The 2010 Quality of Life Index, produced by International Living, ranks and rates 194 countries based on their quality of life. The index looks at nine categories: cost of living, culture and leisure, economy, environment, freedom, health, infrastructure, safety and risk, and climate. For the fifth consecutive year, France tops the list.
The top 10 countries [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/international-living-reveals-top-10-best-countries-to-live/</link>
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		<title>Harris Real Estate University &#8211; Tim and Julie Harris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Interviewers note: I really enjoy meeting new people and the fun part of the real estate business is that there are all sorts of fun people to meet. One of the more fun people that I have met has been Tim Harris of Harris Real Estate University. Tim is bigger than life, and far more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/harris-real-estate-university-tim-and-julie-harris/</link>
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		<title>Promising Outlook for Commercial Real Estate Worldwide in 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Worldwide, 2010 looks promising for commercial real estate investment across most markets, and Asia offers the best opportunities, according to the 16th edition of the LaSalle’s Investment Strategy Annual.
The report says that the free fall in values has stopped in nearly all the major markets it follows and the early stages of restored investor confidence [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/promising-outlook-for-commercial-real-estate-worldwide-in-2010/</link>
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		<title>Century 21 franchisor in China going public?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was reported today on Blogging Stocks that the company with the exclusive franchise rights to the Century 21 brand in China, IFM, has started to fill out the needed paperwork to proceed with an IPO.
So far, IFM has the largest network of real estate offices in China, with more than 1,000 locations across 34 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/century-21-franchisor-in-china-going-public/</link>
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		<title>Art Bartlett Co-founder of Century21 dies after long illness</title>
		<description><![CDATA[According to a press release this morning, Century 21 co-founder Art Bartlett has passed away after a long illness at the age of 76. 
&#8220;Art was a legend whose actions helped to write the very history of real estate and franchising,&#8221; says Century 21 Real Estate LLC President and CEO Tom Kunz. Bartlett created the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/art-bartlett-co-founder-of-century21-dies-after-long-illness/</link>
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		<title>Keller Williams Family Reunion 2010 Agenda</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Keller Williams has announced the Agenda for their Family Reunion scheduled for February 20th through 24th in New Orleans, LA. While not all of the details on speakers are clear yet, they have an Agenda page on their website here that is to be updated as details are finalized. 
The event is expected to draw [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/keller-williams-family-reunion-2010-agenda/</link>
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		<title>REMAX Convention 2010 Orlando</title>
		<description><![CDATA[RE/MAX International has set the schedule for their Convention 2010 in Orlando Florida. Details of the convention were provided here.
While the economy in general is expected to slow the convention and travel business overall quite significantly, the REMAX Convention is expected to be a good draw among RE/MAX associates worldwide. Aside from workshops on every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/remax-convention-2010-orlando/</link>
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		<title>Are email drips equal in RIO to snail mail drips?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I established Worthington Realty about 1.5 years ago,  I wanted to always be experimenting with what I could do to convert leads to closed sales.  So I set out to have the best email drip campaigns as well as the best snail mail campaigns.  I have had much more success from a snail mail [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.realestateindustrywatch.com/are-email-drips-equal-in-rio-to-snail-mail-drips/</link>
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