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Inspiration: 100 Years and Still Working


Community Gene Shea, a commercial real estate agent for Coldwell Banker Commercial NRT in St. Pete, Fla., turned 100 years old on March 9, 2012. Shea still comes into work for about 2-3 hours each day, has commercial listings with a little help from his colleagues, types notes and letters to his clients on ...
May-15-2012

What Moneyball Teaches Us About Real Estate


Business Special thank you to Michael McAllister of The CE Shop for the great article below:   I recently attended the 25th Anniversary of the Gathering of Eagles, a two-day conference for the executive leaders of the country’s most successful residential real estate brokers, owners and managers...
May-11-2012

10 housing markets set for double-digit price gains


Headlines Ten hard-hit housing markets will record double-digit price increases through 2013, according to a report Wednesday. And with mortgage rates low, many house hunters have already started to pounce on bargains, said David Stiff, chief economist at Fiserv, a financial analytics company that prepared...
May-11-2012

LPS: Home prices in February edge upward


Headlines Average home prices across the nation rose a meager 0.2% in February to $195,000, according to LPS Applied Analytics ($24.50 0%), with early data from the firm suggesting another flat increase of 0.3% in March. The increase in seasonally adjusted prices in February was the first rise since March ...
May-11-2012

Foreclosure hotspots show signs of housing turnaround


Headlines Several housing markets hit by the foreclosure wave are beginning to show signs of a turnaround with prices appreciating and home inventory levels starting to decline, Move Inc. said in its Top Turnaround Town report Wednesday. The top turnaround towns include the Phoenix-Mesa area in Arizona, as...
May-09-2012

Florida Supreme Court to hear landmark foreclosure case


Headlines The Florida Supreme Court will decide whether financial firms can escape or remedy allegations of fraud in foreclosure proceedings by voluntarily dismissing the case. The case is a landmark in Florida since many financial firms rely on the dismissal-refile option to fix issues stemming from forec...
May-09-2012

REAL Trends May 2012 Real Estate Newsletter


Newsletter In the book and movie Moneyball, a baseball club general manager and a young economist tackle the issue of replacing three top free agent ballplayers who had taken the Oakland Athletics (A's) baseball team to the playoffs while winning 102 games the prior year. By using player analysis data Billy Be...
May-09-2012

Attract Investors With One Small Change


Marketing With 27 percent of all homes being sold to investors, according to the National Association of Realtors, you'd think more real estate professionals would be trying to capitalize on this market niche. Not so, says Larry Kendall, an instructor with Ninja Selling. "Google any city following by the wo...
May-09-2012




 

The Re-Launch of LORE Magazine in Digital Format - Spring 2012

 

 

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