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Google’s Street View now lets you travel back in time

4/23/2014 8:29 AM

Google has long allowed you to see what many houses look like using Street View, a feature of Google Maps. Now, you can also see what they used to look like, TechCrunch reports. When looking at site in Street View, .....Read More

3 reasons your leads aren’t closing and what you can do about it

4/23/2014 5:00 AM

Quick agent fame, overnight sensations and companies who build crowd followings fast have always scared me. Why? Because I know, billboards don’t make deals. Whether you’re marketing mansions or selling special spoons, the buzz you generate isn’t half as important as the clients who actually close the deal .....Read More

Brand or boutique? Agents will base decision on systems and services offered

4/23/2014 4:42 AM

Whether you’re a boutique brokerage operating out of a virtual office or a providing services to agents at a traditional brick-and-mortar location, agents will decide whether or not they want to work for you based on the systems and services .....Read More

Real estate disruption may not be what you think it is

4/23/2014 4:30 AM

When I was a journalist in the 1980s and 1990s, I penned 1,500 bylined articles that appeared in metro newspapers around the country. Last year, I resolved to use my old dry clippings to start fires in my wood burning .....Read More

Consumer Financial Protection Bureau taking mortgage complaints seriously

4/22/2014 10:39 AM

A Realtor friend of mine recently asked me about the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: “Do they really do anything when somebody submits a complaint about their mortgage company? Can I tell clients that it’s not a waste of time to .....Read More

Evernote: very cool real estate tech tips No. 6 (6 of 10)

4/22/2014 10:07 AM

Evernote is a very cool program that, like Dropbox, you can put on all of your devices for access. Also, like Dropbox, it is one of those things that I have had for a couple of years and never used. It wasn't until I saw the CEO of Evernote, Phil Libin, interviewed by Charlie Rose that realized I was missing out and needed to finally check it out ....Read More

Existing-home sales remain flat

4/22/2014 9:06 AM

Sales of existing homes in March underperformed by historical standards, with purchases remaining mostly flat, the National Association of Realtors reported today. Existing-home sales slid 0.2 percent from February to March, to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.59 million, a 7.5 percent .....Read More

Home values in 20 percent of US housing markets headed for record highs within a year

4/22/2014 8:24 AM

Home values in almost 20 percent of all U.S. metros will surpass their housing boom peaks over the next year, and affordability problems that have begun to affect a fraction of markets may spread to others over the next few .....Read More

Placester will expand business model with $5.5M in funding

4/22/2014 8:00 AM

Armed with a new round of $5.5 million in Series A funding, real estate website developer Placester will begin powering real estate sites for local publishers — starting with those owned by the media giant Hearst Corporation. The funding, led .....Read More

Gabrielle Giffords’ husband, gun control advocate Mark Kelly, to keynote NAR convention

4/22/2014 5:00 AM

Mark Kelly — a retired astronaut turned gun control advocate after his wife, former Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was nearly killed in a 2011 mass shooting — will deliver the keynote address at the National Association of Realtors’ annual conference .....Read More

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