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2008 

This week Bruce Norris is joined by Chief Economist for The California Association of Realtors, Leslie Appleton-Young.  Bruce and Leslie discuss how people join C.A.R, how the market has changed and things unexpected in the market, jumbo market problems, how Realtors audiences have changed as fa...
01/25/2008
Certain REO agents in the Southern California area already have well over 500 REO listings!  The automated systems and unrealistic list of "to do" assignments set up by lenders have taken control from the true REO experts: local agents. Increasingly frustruting REO agents are watching lenders yan...
01/21/2008
Why are non-approved short sale listings allowed on the MLS?  What's the difference between these postings and if an auction company were to start placing their starting bids on the MLS?  If the short sale isn't approved, the listing is only an agent hopeful the lender will take the offer they c...
01/21/2008
Bruce Norris is joined once again by Chief Economist and Director of Research for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, Dr. Mark Dotzour. Bruce and Dr. Dotzour discuss commercial real estate, how commercial real estate will see similar financial problems, how the decline in the U.S. do...
01/21/2008
This week, Bruce Norris is joined by Chief Economist and Director of Research for the Real Estate Center at Texas A&M University, Dr. Mark Dotzour. Bruce and Dr. Dotzour discuss how global trends have affected residential real estate, how interest rates are determined, how central banks have lost...
01/12/2008
I'd really like to get over 50 to do this survey.  Below are results of just six.  It's interesting to see some of the answers.  it only takes a few minutes. Survey = http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=fNglHlAKCJWwtMZAOvSj1A_3d_3d 4. How many deals did you close in 2007?   Response Percent Res...
01/06/2008
I recently posted an add in the LA Craiglist.com jobs section to help find a writer to help with some newsletter work.  Within three hours I received over 50 applications and had to pull the add.  Oddly enough, it's where we've been getting lots of phone calls for our property listings.I've stumb...
01/05/2008
I've created a short survey for Brokers and Realtors to see if we can spot some trends. It's quick, easy, and fun and I plan on sharing the results as soon as I get enough responses to draw some conclusions. Find out what other Realtors in other States are dealing with and what behaviors buyers a...
01/05/2008
I've done marketing for around 10 years in some form or another.  I've been absolutely fascinated with the change in technologies, the speed in which it has happened, and how utterly left behind companies have gotten because they thought it didn't apply to them.  Did you see the C.A.R. report whe...
01/05/2008
Bruce is joined once again by the experts at TNG: Craig Hill the hard money loan officer, Andrea Jennings the agent, and Greg Norris the property buyer. 4 Ways to Listen Click HERE on the player launch below to stream our shows as you surf the web. Visit our Radio Archives to download shows in m...
01/04/2008
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