Real Estate Trends by Stefan Swanepoel

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Services for Real Estate Pros - New York Times Bestselling Author & International Speaker
Tracking Trends Shaping the Real Estate Business.
RECENT BLOG POSTS
Real estate professionals need to think differently about the future. They need to do more and they need to move faster. It has now been more than 10 years since my first book on trends, Real Estate confronts Reality, and many of the changes that we have been writing and speaking about are now co...
11/12/2008
Change seems to be the buzz word this year, with Barack Obama touting "Change We Need," John McCain promoting "Real Change" and even Hillary Clinton saying "Change you can count on."  Every year the Swanepoel TRENDS Report identifies, analyzes and then details out the imminent changes that are ex...
11/03/2008
Despite congressional passage of the historic $700 billion bailout legislation, which was signed by President Bush on Saturday, Oct. 4, the Dow Jones Index tumbled 22% last week; the worst week in its 118 year history. Some calculations indicate that since the beginning of the year U.S. corporati...
10/13/2008
GMAC Financial Services has sold GMAC Real Estate to Brookfield Asset Management, Inc., the owners of Royal LePage, the largest Canadian residential real estate brokerage company. The transaction is expected to close before year end. The transaction includes all three of GMAC's home services divi...
09/30/2008
With 3,460 respondents casting 6,099 votes, Rainers and the real estate professional community has decided who the Top 25 Most Influential Women are. And what an incredible list of powerful women this list represents. Nine months ago when the 2008 edition of the Swanepoel TRENDS Report was publis...
09/28/2008
So said John McCain during his acceptance speech and the RNC convention.And I think he's right!He was, of course, talking about our youth - I am, of course, thinking about my friends the real estate professionals.Let's start with our kids. Survey after survey states that the US is falling behind ...
09/26/2008
A week ago we started discussing the impact of women in leadership roles in real estate and now a week later we have an incredible list of 100 nominations of women that have and are making the mark on our industry. Congratulations to all nominees!   All Rainers are hereby invited to help us selec...
09/19/2008
Social networking is a concept that's been around since J.A. Barnes first coined the term in a sociology report back in 1954.  It moved onto the Web in 1995 with the launch of ClassMates, SixDegrees, Epinions and Friendster. Then of course came MySpace and Facebook and the world would never be th...
09/16/2008
In the original post we started our search for women who have reached the top of the real estate leadership pyramid or who are in other ways proving themselves to be great leaders and spokespersons for our industry.   The response has been incredible. What an impressive list!!! Here are the 75 ca...
09/15/2008
The worst 7 days in financial market history ever! Prepare yourself for a delayed real estate recovery. What a week and weekend this has been - the Government, State Rescue Operations and large corporations were all very busy. Millions of people were and remain at risk on many different levels - ...
09/15/2008
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