Zillow released a survey today on the financial concerns of home buyers entering the market. The bottom line: it isn’t pretty, and it may be indicative of slow times continuing for agents. Of those surveyed, 94 percent said they had at least one financial worry about buying a home. Here are the results: Financial...
If you want to get your content read, you need to use a headline. So says a good article over at Agent Genius that gives 12 different places you might not think of to sell your content. Unfortunately, most folks only think of using headlines in sales messages but… don’t you want folks to pause and at least take a moment...
As a complement to today’s report on how the real estate market will take to 2009 to bottom out is this article about how agents are having to work harder – and spend longer – to sell their properties. Real estate agents across the U.S. are having to work harder in one of the worst markets in years. They...
The real estate market still has not hit rock bottom – according to a report our by the Urban Land Institute and PricewaterhouseCoopers, investors and real estate professionals can expect the market to continue to decline through 2009 and slump in 2010. The report projects 15 percent to 20 percent losses in real estate...
Zillow.com is laying off more than 25 percent of its workforce – about 40 people – because of the prolonged economic recession, the listings site announced Friday. “Unprecedented economic events … have made a prolonged recession likely, in our judgment,” said Rich Barton, Zillow founder, chairman...
Inman had a report yesterday said online advertising by Realtors and brokers should continue to grow – just not at quite the same double-digit pace that has been the case in the past. The study, conducted by Borrell and Associates, found that online advertising spending by the real estate industry grew 20 percent...
To offset the “the sky is falling” mentality some Realtors have during this economic downturn, Inman is publishing some interviews with agents about how they are maintaining or even growing their business during touch economic times. This interview, with Linda Davis, a 32-year-veteran of the real estate industry,...
HomeVestors, that company behind that “We Buy Ugly Houses” ad campaign, put out a study ranking the top markets for real estate investors at the current moment. The top three spots all go to Texas cities – Dallas (No. 1), Houston (No. 2) and Fort Worth (No. 3). Tighter lending conditions in these markets,...