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Recession in Real Estate

What Happens When There is a Recession and Noone Comes?

• It looks like 73 out of 150 metropolitan statistical areas did not get invited to doomsday as  they show increases in median existing single-family home prices from a year earlier, including 11 areas with double-digit annual gains and another 12 metros showing increases of 6 percent or more; 77 had price declines including 16 with double-digit drops.
• It is believed that the Jumbo crunch last August has significantly slowed down purchaseability in luxury & higher priced areas of the Country.

NAR President Richard Gaylord says ,“Higher limits for FHA loans, which go into effect March 14, will be a big help to first-time buyers in high-cost markets. Higher limits for conventional loans purchased by Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae will take a bit longer – when they become available, high-income, creditworthy borrowers in high-cost areas will have access to affordable and safer financing, and that will help unleash pent-up demand,” he says.

• The 4th Quarter saw the Cumberland area of Maryland and West Virginia rise 19% over a year ago. Nakima, Washington rose 18.0 % from the 4th quarter of 2006.

Big Bucks Selling Commercial Real Estate

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The Ginny Creig of Real Estate

While reading a well written analysis of the "real estate bubble", I could not help but think of the current housing recession metaphorically.

First off, I believe most everything that is reported today is over hyped. It is the Achilles heal of instant information. We have not yet learned as a society to take a "chill pill" when the barrage of data floods our emails, blog readers, and news sources.

Who are the Bloggers?

It seems over a quarter of us are writing web posts!

Simultaneous Media Survey (SIMM 11) studied15,727 participants on the subject of the blogosphere.

26% of all adults say they regularly or occasionally blog.

• Of those, 53.7% are male
• 44.7% are married.
• 28.4% hold a professional or managerial position
• 10.4% are students.

Average age of a blogger? 37.6

More blograta:

• 69.7% of Bloggers are White/Caucasian
• 12.2% are African American/Black
• 3.7% are Asian
• 20% are Hispanic
• 24.6% of registered voters say they regularly or occasionally blog.
• 37.6% of Libertarians regularly/occasionally blog
• Democrats (26.9%)
• Independents (25.7%)
• Republicans (22.9%)

Marketing Book Winner

Brian Block has won the book Internet Marketing for his comment about Social Networks.

We are offering a new book for this weeks giveaway. You can win by tracking back. Writing a comment or linking to the post (you will have to let us know when you link).

The book giveaway for this week is:

Super Crunchers

If you like Freakonomics you gotta read this. Although I think it falls a bit short of what is seemingly its inspiration. It is worthy of a read. The author claims he found the books namesake name by using the AdWords keyword tool. That alone is worth the read.

This book illustrates why todays technology is a better scout of talent for football or baseball, and simple human intuition in all things like business decison making.

Frankly, I have a hard time with this but because of these types of claims this book is a must read. As you have now a generation that buys into this concept of data completely driving decisions.

Your Real Estate Candidate

I love politics. Say that word Republican and Democrat in civil company and people run for the hills. As a student of marketing that is pathetic. Hopefully, as a student of marketing most of us are open to studying the greatest marketers.

Bending Bubbles

We are busy over at The Positive site. As I have mentioned before, this is more than holding hands and singing love songs.

This is taking the news back and making it yours.

Perhaps our first webinar can help you see why.

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Internet Marketing in Real Estate: 1st Book Giveaway.

First Garage Linking Giveaway.

The First Book give away goes to the best Trackback, Link, or comment on any of the blog posts so far this month. The "best" is solely at our discression. The winner will be decided this Friday the 8th.

The Book we are giving to you is Internet Marketing in Real Estate by Barbara G. Cox,William Koelzer .

This new book from Prentice Hall will help show the way. Step by step, the chapters take real estate professionals through the process of creating a useful presence on the Internet that will serve their clients and future clients. It demonstrates how to ensure that their sites are "findable" by that audience they wish to reach—buyers and sellers of homes and other properties. It walks readers through the key characteristics of effective e-mail and provides sample messages.

Internet Marketing in Real Estate helps readers find their way through the sometimes scary process of learning to use the Internet for real estate marketing.

Social Networks Big Payoff

VC's and the Blogaratti have been romancing Social Networks. However, its promise of big payoffs was recently put into question by Google itself, blaming the networks in part for their recent revenue slump.

“We have found that social networks are not monetizing as well as we were expecting,” said George Reyes, chief financial officer, as Google reported its earnings for the final quarter of last year.

Since Google has guaranteed to make minimum payments to a number of social networks that carry its advertising, principally MySpace, the slow growth of the business had left the company out of pocket and contributed to falling profit margins in the quarter, he added.