by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 12, 2013 | Best Practices, Marketing, News |
NAR PULSE—A new video and companion brochure from NAR, “A Pathway to Professionalism: Respect Starts Here,” are available for use by brokerages. NAR offers a number of resources and tools to help brokers welcome new agents into the REALTOR® family, and...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 12, 2013 | Consumer, For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
Indicators of consumer confidence were mixed in the first month of the new year. Thomson Reuters and the University of Michigan reported that its final estimate of consumer confidence, Consumer Sentiment, rose by 1.2 percent on a seasonally adjusted monthly basis in...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 11, 2013 | Best Practices, Coaching, Marketing, News, Technology |
With an estimated 90 percent of homebuyers conducting home searches online, you’d be smart to use the beginning of 2013 to beef up your Web presence. Take a minute to discover the six things you absolutely must include on your real estate website (and which three...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 11, 2013 | Best Practices, Coaching, Consumer, Marketing, News, Technology |
The mobile device has created a new breed of consumer: The Mobile Consumer. We have not seen this type of change in human behavior since the advent of the automobile. While the World Wide Web changed consumer behavior, it did not change human behavior the way mobile...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 11, 2013 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
(MCT)—QUESTION: I bought a co-op apartment unit in January 2010 with a conventional mortgage. I am trying to refinance it and have found that big banks are not willing to work with me. Can you please explain what’s happening here? —Louis ANSWER: When you buy a home in...
by Susanne Dwyer | Feb 10, 2013 | For Your Clients, Marketing, News |
From homes to cabins to dormitories—and everything in between—re-purposed shipping containers, or ISBUs (Intermodal Steel Building Units) are making their mark on the residential real estate sector, blurring the lines between two very distinct industries as one’s...