Realtors who entered the business of buying and selling real estate since 2000 may not know what to do in a falling market. This article will give you 10 secrets of making 2008 and 2009 your best year ever, rather than having you leave the business and, who knows, end up at a crummy desk job.
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The NY Times has a story today about MLS listings being posted on more Websites, like Zillow, and how real estate agents and brokers need to adapt. Hat tip to The Real Estate Bloggers.
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Would you welcome a complete stranger into your home or get into a car alone with someone you had just met? For Realtors® and other real estate professionals, these are everyday occurrences. Every job that requires interaction with the public involves some risk, which is why the National Association of Realtors® is reaching out to its 1.3 million members next week as part of its fifth annual REALTOR® Safety Week.
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NAR believes the parameters issued yesterday in the guidance of commercial real estate lending, designed to help prevent imprudent commercial real estate lending, are overly prescriptive causing many banks, particularly smaller, regional banks, to be dissuaded from making sound commercial real estate lending decisions.
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The resale value of many remodeling projects has not kept pace with the costs of those projects, according to Realtors and remodelers who recently participated in Remodeling magazine's 2006 "Cost vs. Value Report."Â
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Pat Vredevoogd Combs, president of the National Association of Realtors® , today congratulated Representatives Barney Frank (D-Mass.) and Spencer Bachus (R-Ala.) on their leadership assignments to the House Financial Services Committee.
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