As part of our ongoing Beta Brokerage project, we invite you to join our next Beta Broker Hangout on Google+. We're planning a lively discussion with two successful brokers on "The Impact of Office Design on Business." Join our 1-hour discussion with two brokers who will talk about how they Continue Reading
Mar
01
2014
Real Estate Resource Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
by 0
Happy March 1st! It's almost spring! (if you ignore the weather reports) These are the articles that caught our attention this week in our Real Estate Resource Roundup. Home-Renovation Spree Allays Concern Housing Rebound Slowing Both Home Depot and Lowe’s topped their initial sales forecasts Continue Reading
Feb
27
2014
Why the Luxury Housing Market Is Hot, Hot, Hot
by 0
The real estate market feels like it’s bouncing back. But the luxury housing market is downright hot in several markets. Barring a stock market correction — unlikely given how investors reacted positively to the Federal Reserve reduction in bond purchases in December — the trend means the spring Continue Reading
Feb
22
2014
Real Estate Resource Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
by 0
Thanks for spending time with us this Saturday morning with our Real Estate Resource Roundup, where we share industry and BHGRE stories from around the network. In Tough Times, The Fix is In Linda Olson, an agent with Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate David Winans & Associates in Arlington, Continue Reading
Feb
15
2014
Real Estate Resource Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
by 0
Happy post-Valentine's Day! These are just a few stories that caught our attention this week in our Real Estate Resource Roundup. Sneak a piece of leftover chocolate with your morning coffee, we won't tell. These brokers are independent and innovating like crazy Spend some time this morning Continue Reading
Feb
12
2014
Working with Millennial Homebuyers, Part 2
by 0
We’ve learned a lot about Millennials, as Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, shares in Generation Next, her contributed piece in RISMedia's Real Estate magazine. In the second half of our focus on Millennial first-time homebuyers, we turn again to our three Continue Reading
Feb
08
2014
Real Estate Resource Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
by 0
Happy Saturday morning! Time for our Real Estate Resource Roundup, packed full with more than a few industry articles from this week. Grab your coffee. Go on. We'll wait. The roles real estate agent take in closings Noreen Parrell, an agent with Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate Rand Continue Reading
Feb
05
2014
Working with Millennial Homebuyers, Part 1
by 1
In a recent piece in RISMedia's Real Estate, Generation Next, Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, explores the Millennial generation, and our findings on who they are, what they want, and what they’re looking for in a real estate agent. In the first Continue Reading
Feb
01
2014
Real Estate Resource Roundup: Top Stories of the Week
by 0
Before you get started with all the prep for the big game weekend, check out our Real Estate Resource Roundup, industry articles that caught our eye this week. 7 Tech Tools Everyone is Talking About Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, LLC, CEO Sherry Chris offers insight on the latest Continue Reading
Jan
31
2014
The Smart Home Revolution
by 0
In the 1950s and 1960s, shiny new appliances — the blender! — heralded the Home of the Future at worlds fairs and other celebrations of technology. Today, “Smart Homes” can use cloud computing to control our lights, thermostats, alarms and other household systems with mobile phones and other Continue Reading
“P.A.I.G.E.”, Revisited
Editor's Note: This post by Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate, appeared on Clean Slate in 2008, and we are pleased to report that not much has changed since we initially revealed P.A.I.G.E. It's a mission we work toward every day - indeed, a way of life that Continue Reading