When it comes to the Web, many Realtors think that just building a decent website is enough to attract clients to it. “If you build it, they will come,” they think. They leave their website traffic generation strategy to search engine hits alone. But in reality that won’t work. Real estate professionals need to advertise their websites to make them successful. While search engine hits definitely are in the cards, getting a page one search engine ranking takes some effort.
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Nineteen metropolitan areas are likely to notice a direct impact from an increase in conforming loan limits included in the proposed economic stimulus plan, according to a Washington-based policy research firm.
Seven of those areas are in California, six are in the greater New York area and two are in Massachusetts, according to Stanford Group Co. Others are in the greater Washington area, Boulder, Colo., the greater Miami area and the Seattle-Tacoma region.
The proposal, discussed by House Financial Services Committee Chairman Barney Frank (D-Mass.) this week, permits Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to securitize mortgages up to 125% of the local median home price, according to the research firm. The limit is capped at $729,750.
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Consumers are increasingly searching for homes online, and if a seller’s listing can’t be found by people searching for homes on the Internet, that means there is a certainty that the searcher will not buy a home from that seller, but from one of the other people on the search results page. To help home sellers get at the top of the first search engine pages, Fizber.com, a new and innovative property listing website, has recently released a new powerful marketing tool which allows home sellers change the title and description shown in the search results for their property listing.
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A few years back when I was teaching “Introduction to Real Estate Consulting” at boards and associations, it was common for agents, brokers, and managers who didn’t understand consulting to dismiss it as “discounting.” This type of comment was always amusing to me because, in fact, I developed my consulting model as an anecdote to discounting.
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NEW YORK, Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — American Real Estate Partners, L.P. (the “Company”). On August 9, 2007, the Company announced that it would be changing its name to Icahn Enterprises L.P. That change becomes effective today pursuant to a Certificate of Amendment to the Certificate of Limited Partnership filed with the Delaware Secretary of State.
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Real estate agents are vastly more skilled than you are.
Their people skills are better and there marketing skills are unsurpassed.
They can determine the price of your house, far more accurately than you can.
You obviously believe all of this don’t you? Otherwise, you would never be prepared to pay the agent the incredible amount of money that you are going to pay him, would you?
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