Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 19. Feb, 2010 by Sherry Chris.

On the one year anniversary of the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP), more than one million homeowners have gotten temporary reductions in their mortgage payments, with 12 percent receiving permanent modifications. Although to date this is just minimal success, plans announced this week will increase this percentage significantly as banks rethink their policies and qualifications. [...]

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Week in Review: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 18. Dec, 2009 by Sherry Chris.

Happy Holidays! As we look forward to a New Year, we may not see the real estate market recover as much as we all hope. In the Chinese calendar, 2010 will be the Year of the Tiger, which seems appropriate as the animal represents unpredictability. We have seen improvement in the past few months, but [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 10. Jul, 2009 by Jason Steele.

While Twitter seems be all the rage these days, Facebook’s new fan pages for businesses offers entrepreneurs a new way to build brand recognition “build brand recognition, keep customers updated on the latest happenings, and get them inside your stores.” Lisa Barone’s post on SmallBizTrends offers some quick steps for how to create your Facebook [...]

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Friday Blog Scan: Things We Liked from the Week That Was

Posted on 17. Apr, 2009 by Jason Steele.

We know how well the big sites in real estate (Realtor.com, Zillow, Trulia) rank in the search engines. And we are clear about the vast amount of traffic they receive. We also know that consumers are drawn to these sites first before drilling down to the local broker and agent sites. What we inside real estate know that most consumers may not is how many local listings are actually missing from these search sites. Jay Thompson digs a little deeper into this discussion in his post this week titled Where to search for homes online.

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Real Estate SEO – Getting Your Brand and Website Visible in Search Engines

Posted on 12. Mar, 2009 by Jason Steele.

As we have introduced the new Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate franchise brand, one of the challenges we face is making sure our website and our brokers’ websites (Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate – Wilkins & Associates, Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate – Laviano & Associates, Better Homes and Gardens  Real Estate [...]

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I Almost Bought a House Next To a Sewerage Treatment Plant

Posted on 20. Jun, 2008 by Jason Steele.

Posted by Jason Steele

As you may know from my last blog post, my family and I are in the market for a new home. I began the research process of finding an agent both on the web via Active Rain and through local referrals from friends and family in our prospective neighborhoods. We chose the [...]

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I Want My, I Want My, I Want My … Traffic

Posted on 07. May, 2008 by Sherry Chris.

Posted by Sherry Chris 
Last week was interesting. I kept bumping into things that raised a question that’s floated around the real estate business since the first home was marketed on the Web back in 1994: Who should reap the benefits of traffic, advertising, and customer engagement derived from broker-supplied listings?
For a while there, it seemed like [...]

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