Monthly Archives: July 2004

Housing Bubble?

Freddie Mac may say there’s no housing bubble, but the folks over at Fool.com aren’t buying it. They refer to a recent New York Times article where 2 Goldman Sachs analysts caution that home prices are now overvalued on average by 10%. And if interest rates rise just 1%, that percentage will increase to […]

Industry

On Email Communication

It always amazes me whenever I get an email response that is virtually unreadable. It seems that email has become the medium of informal communication even in business settings to people they’ve never had any type of communication with. Often, respondents fail to use proper capitalization at the beginning of sentences and proper […]

Email

Qualifying Your Buyers

Everyone wants listings these days. Listings mean (pretty much) guaranteed commission, and lock the seller into a contract with you. And one of the biggest complaints I hear is that agents/brokers hate driving prospective buyers around town all day, only to receive a call back in a week that their prospect has purchased […]

Working with Buyers

A Look at Women Homebuyers

This month’s Realtor Magazine had an interesting article on the demographics of women homebuyers. These single women make up 21% of all buyers - that’s 1.7 million, making them the second largest home buying category next to married couples. And these women aren’t just single moms or divorcees, but now include a younger […]

Real Estate Niches, Target Market