The World’s Most Luxurious Homes

3 09 2010

News aggregation website The Daily Beast recently featured a dozen of the most luxurious homes from around the world. View these dream homes here.


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Opportunity is Knocking

1 09 2010

by Rob Wicker

PJ Wade made an interesting point in his recent article, Standing Out in a Buyer’s Market. Ideally, the homebuyer is escorted through the listed property by a knowledgeable agent. Unfortunately, this ideal scenario isn’t always reality.

For example, a prospective buyer may knock on the front door of a listed property because he sees a sign in the front yard. Home sellers don’t always know how to respond to interested buyers, especially if the buyer is unexpected. Your seller may not be as cordial as you are, nor as well-informed. In addition, an impromptu showing by your seller when the house is a mess is probably not ideal either.

If you are the listing agent, how would you like your home seller to respond when an unexpected buyer visits? Do you prefer that your seller takes the prospect’s name and number so that you can follow up? That is probably the best advice. If so, make sure your sellers understand their role. After all, opportunity may be knocking.


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72% of Americans Want to Own a Home

20 08 2010

Homeownership has been part of the American Dream since the Colonies were founded in the 1700s. And the good news is that it’s still important to over 72% of US adults.

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Inch By Inch…

6 08 2010

There was some encouraging news in the real estate industry released this week. “Recovery continues to bump along in a ‘fits and starts’ pattern,” reported RealtyTimes columnist Kenneth Harney. “What’s important to keep in mind is that the core trendline remains positive.”

The Good News:

  • June total home sales up
  • Home prices continue modest recovery
  • Mortgage applications increasing

The So-So News:

  • Consumer confidence down slightly
  • Job growth likely to be slow & modest

Get the numbers


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Easy Content Sharing

2 08 2010

There is a lot of great content on the internet these days. Sometimes you run across an article or image that you would like to share with your 100,000 closest Facebook friends.

While it is technically possible to directly copy/paste content, it isn’t technically legal to do so. There are however a few solutions to help you share content from a website – even your own website or blog with all of your internet friends.

First – there is a Facebook Toolbar that bolts onto Mozilla Firefox, the free Open Source web browser. This handy Firefox add-on allows you to search Facebook from anywhere, receive notifications, connect with friends, upload photos and share content that you find on any other web page.

For those of you who use Internet Explorer, there is even a version of the Facebook Toolbar for IE that is also available.

Google also has a similar solution called the Google Toolbar that provides content sharing capabilities. Additional services such as Gmail, YouTube, Google Calendar, Google Bookmarks and even a Facebook gadget are integrated into the toolbar, giving you easy access to your digital world from a single location.

If you prefer for things to be a bit more automated and use your free time for writing great content of your own, hop on over to RSS Graffiti, install this little gem, point it to an RSS/Atom feed, set your configuration preferences and your Facebook wall is populated automatically.

In fact – if you are my Facebook friend – you’re probably reading this on my wall as we speak – and you probably thought I spent a lot of time making Facebook posts…


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