by Susanne Dwyer | Mar 2, 2013 | Marketing, News |
Sometimes it takes a 30-year industry veteran to have the clearest vision into the next 30 years of the industry. It’s no surprise to Sherry Chris, president and CEO of Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate LLC, that home buying trends, consumer characteristics and...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 28, 2013 | Best Practices, Coaching, Marketing, Technology |
• Only 18 percent of brokerages received repeat business. • Six percent of agents with 3 to 5 years of experience received repeat business. You can argue that makes sense since consumers don’t move that often. • When you look at agents with 6 to 15 years of...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 27, 2013 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Data through December 2012, released this week by S&P Dow Jones Indices for its S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices, the leading measure of U.S. home prices, showed that all three headline composites ended the year with strong gains. The national composite...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 27, 2013 | Marketing, News |
Regional Spotlight–Central Ohio home sales during the first month of 2013 were the highest for January since 2007 just before the housing market began to feel the effects of the economic recession. The 1,374 closings exceeds the previous year by 20.4 percent...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 26, 2013 | Marketing, News |
How long has it been since you heard the words “sold at a premium over list price?” For the past six years, sales prices ended up somewhere south of list prices by at least five percent. Now, in the markets where the recovery is hottest, sellers are increasingly...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 25, 2013 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Existing-home sales edged up in January, while a seller’s market is developing and home prices continue to rise steadily above year-ago levels, according to the National Association of REALTORS®. Sales rose in every region but the West, which is the region...