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CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS: 2011 Kansas Housing Conference
December 16, 2010 Posted by KHRC
TOPEKA, KS – December 16, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — Do you have great ideas for dynamic speakers and presentations at next year’s Kansas Housing Conference August 9-11 in Wichita? If so, we want to hear from you! The Conference Steering Committee is now seeking session suggestions that offer:
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Philadelphia Hosts 14th National Brownfields Conference at Pennsylvania Convention Center April 3-5, 2011
November 22, 2010 Posted by RealEstateRama
WASHINGTON D.C.- November 22, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — More than 6,000 environmental and economic development officials, finance and insurance providers, risk managers, planners, attorneys, civil engineers and students are expected to attend the U.S. EPA co-sponsored National Brownfields Conference, April 3-5, 2011, at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia.
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Economic and Market Transformation
September 14, 2010 Posted by Kerry Mitchell
Tampa, Fl – September 13, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — As many in the various professions in the real estate arena will verify, the reality from those in the trenches, is that the market is just not getting better. As someone who has completed 400 successful real estate transactions in a 14 year career in 2 states, I’d say I know more than all of the economists and newscasters put together trying to get a handle on things. I can produce plenty of Realtors, home inspectors and mortgage professionals who can give you a better idea of how to come out of these downward trends. I wouldn’t be so quick to blame these professionals on our current economic woes as most do not realize they are morally guided by their buyers and sellers and cannot make decisions for them.
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U.S. Real Estate Market: Are There Positive Signs of Market Recovery?
August 23, 2010 Posted by Chris Marchalleck
WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 23, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — The U.S. economy has made moderate gains in several key categories over the past few months. GDP growth has been positive, though hovering around 1% per quarter. Unemployment has leveled off as job losses have been abated, but the domestic hiring engine has sputtered of late. Corporate earnings have soared this past quarter by some 35 to 40% year-over-year, but growth overseas has been the winner while domestic production has remained flat. Consumer spending has always dragged our economy out of recession in the past, but retail sales show only marginal growth, and the sale of new homes are over 40% below where they were fifteen years ago.
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Real Estate Agents Maximize Online Marketing With WordPress/idx Integration
July 6, 2010 Posted by Real Estate Celebrity
Miami, FL – July 6, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — Remember the good old days when Real Estate Agents could just advertise in the Sunday newspaper and list all their Open Houses for the weekend? Agents could also easily get ahold of address lists and just send a few thousand postcards to homeowners and advertise their service. Well, we all know that the times have changed and now Agents are adapting to online marketing strategies with varied results.
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Advice for Realtors- A House Isn’t a Home
May 28, 2010 Posted by Michael Volkin
Danville, VA – May 28, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — As the president of a real estate franchise, I read a lot of blogs, especially those from other Realtors.
Let me first disclaim that the wealth of information and creativity I read on the Internet is amazing and the advice in this article is only meant to bring back the consistency of a two common real estate terms that have seemed to lose their meaning in the last few years.
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What Agents Need to Know About Short Sales
March 4, 2010 Posted by Bernadette Espinoza, Fidelity National Title
Phoenix, AZ – March 4, 2010 – (RealEstateRama) — Unsurprising to many real estate agents, short sales are expected to dominate the market in 2010 and 2011, with REOs declining in importance as lenders are discovering that they lose less money on short sale transactions.
