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Saturday, January 12, 2008

7 Reasons Why You Should Consider an Extreme Internet Marketing Makeover For Your Real Estate Business (10 clicks)

From The Real Estate Tomato - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 3:42 pm ET

7 Real Estate Marketing Powerhouses Team Up To Give Away More Than $16,000 Worth of Services, For Free! Our good friends over at Online Marketing Strategies had this crazy idea: Let’s get a bunch of ... (more)

Clothing Store? Strip Joint? Restaurant? (11 clicks)

From Mike's Corner - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 3:36 pm ET

I snapped this pick while walking down an NYC street last week. Is it;A. A strip joint that has figured out how to narrow cast market regarding a wide subject?B. A plus sized clothing store?C. ... (more)

False Prophets of Housing: Making Sense of Housing Information Last Week. BofA buying Countrywide Deal. (1 click)

From Dr. Housing Bubble - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 3:28 pm ET

For most societal changing events, there comes a time when you realize we have reached a tipping point. Not any tipping point, but a point where it is impossible to go backwards. I ... (more)

Everybody’s Sitting On The Fence In California (3 clicks)

From The Housing Bubble - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 3:05 pm ET

The Mercury News reports from California. “Bill and Beth Scozzola bought a three-bedroom house in Gilroy at an auction in July, redid everything from the floors to the plumbing to the kitchen sink, then put ... (more)

The Best Thing About Inman’s Real Estate Connect (4 clicks)

From Phoenix Real Estate Guy - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 2:37 pm ET

What was the best thing about being at Inman’s Real Estate Connect NYC 08? Meeting people . People I’ve “known” for awhile through on-line acquaintence, people I’ve heard of and people I hadn’t. ... (more)

What's Up With That: Last Night's Downtown Fountain Fire (1 click)

From Curbed Los Angeles - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 1:41 pm ET

Bonus "What's Up With That" weekend question. A jittery reader reports: "So I was driving to down north on Figueroa leaving my place downtown last night, around 5:30, and I saw the oddest thing at ... (more)

Bank of America Buys The United States - Or Close To It! (7 clicks)

From Real Estate News For Real - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 1:14 pm ET

If the announced planned merger of Bank of America and Countrywide Financial Corp goes through, BofA will be involved in about one in every four mortgage loans in the United States. One in four! Now one way ... (more)

Why good Real Estate Video is rare

From Transparent Real Estate - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 12:52 pm ET

I saw Rachel Klein, real estate video producer/star... from far away... at one of the Inman Connect cocktail parties last week. It was tough to get a word in edgewise to say I was a fan... she ... (more)

Weekend Open House Tour: Condos in Marina Del Ray

From Curbed Los Angeles - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 12:40 pm ET

Ah, Marina Del Ray. You sunny weird place, you. This week, after a long delay, the California Coastal Commission weighed in on all that development taking place in Marina and made a few recommendations for ... (more)

Look Ahead And Describe The Average Day (2 clicks)

From The Housing Bubble - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 12:40 pm ET

Readers suggested a topic on the economic future. “One topic of interest to me is just exactly how the recession/depression is most likely to effect the average person on a day to day basis. I ... (more)

Weekend Open Thread (2 clicks)

From Irvine Housing Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 12:18 pm ET

Since we are getting so many comments lately, and since our update posts recycle these comments, it has been suggested we create an open thread for weekend discussion. Here you go. ... (more)

Local Market Observations! (2 clicks)

From The Housing Bubble - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 11:32 am ET

What do you see in your local housing market this weekend? Falling prices? “The balance of power in the housing market has shifted from the seller to the buyer, according to a new report. According ... (more)

One prediction already! Trulia and Zillow traffic (2 clicks)

From Altos Research Real Estate Insights - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 11:03 am ET

Last month I indulged in some year-end speculation about the state of the RE.net in 2008. One of the things I predicted was that we'd soon see one of the traffic measuring firms show Trulia's ... (more)

Back Home From NYC (6 clicks)

From Mike's Corner - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 10:02 am ET

My feet hurt and my back may take some time to recover, but I am glad to say I made it back home from the planet of New York in one piece. There is a ... (more)

Cuomo: Due Diligence and Disclosure

From Calculated Risk - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 9:33 am ET

Here's an update from Vikas Bajaj and Jenny Anderson of the NYT on Cuomo's "due diligence" investigation, "Inquiry Focuses on Withholding of Data on Loans."But as home prices surged, subprime lenders, which market to people ... (more)

Property Owners Are Finding Themselves In A Jam (4 clicks)

From The Housing Bubble - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 9:30 am ET

The Daily Business Review reports from Florida. “The Whitney, a newly built condo development in downtown West Palm Beach, has joined the growing number of developments hit with foreclosure lawsuits. California-based lender iStar FM Loans ... (more)

Weekend Open House Tour: Wandering the Wah-high

From Curbed - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 9:26 am ET

WaHI fever lives on! At least through the weekend. Come and get a taste of the Upper Lower Weast Side of the '80s and '90s. Location: 875 West 181st Street near Cabrini Boulevard Size: 2BR ... (more)

Busy Day on Tap (2 clicks)

From Bruce @ The Buschs - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 8:24 am ET

We are scheduled to show seven homes starting this morning. Then it is on to the office to be the designated receptionist for three hours. Then the important part…the Packers playoff game. You just have ... (more)

Finding Great Real Estate Foreclosure Deals with RealtyTrac (8 clicks)

From TwoWiseAcres - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 8:19 am ET

Finding rental properties for the right price is one of the most important aspects of real estate investing. The old adage is true. You make money when you buy. The price you ... (more)

Duet ** Update 1 ** (5 clicks)

From Irvine Housing Blog - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 7:30 am ET

This was first posted on September 11, 2007. Now our desperate sellers are considering becoming floplords. They haven’t moved much on the price, but now they are offering the unit for rent at $2,395. If ... (more)

Bits Bucket And Craigslist Finds For January 12, 2008 (1 click)

From The Housing Bubble - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 6:49 am ET

Please post off-topic ideas, links and Craigslist finds here. ... (more)

HousingPANIC Stupid Question of the Day (13 clicks)

From Housing Panic - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 4:49 am ET

Why do you care so much?Wouldn't it be much easier to just watch American Idol, take out a toxic loan on a home you can't afford, spend too much, run up some credit card debts, ... (more)

France 1789. America 2008. Louis XVI. Angelo Mozilo. When will we hear chants of "OFF WITH THEIR HEADS!!!"? (2 clicks)

From Housing Panic - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 4:47 am ET

Mozilo shouldn't just be worried about the SEC. He shouldn't just be worried about irate laid-off Countrywide employees. He shouldn't just be worried about CFC shareholders who lost everything. He shouldn't ... (more)

And then even the housing-obsessed Brits, who believed the "housing ladder" only went up, realized it was one big Ponzi Scheme about to collapse (8 clicks)

From Housing Panic - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 4:39 am ET

Well done special on housing gamblers in Britain. Thanks doom for the link..HP'ers, you have no idea how bad it's gonna get in England (and Europe). Take Scottsdale, Miami, San Diego ... (more)

Holding the Fort in 92011? (16 clicks)

From Bubble Markets Inventory Tracking - view blog entries - visit this blog
January 12, 2008 at 4:24 am ET

According to the latest Union Tribune article, the zip code 92011 in Carlsbad is the only zip code in the entire county of San Diego that maintained its year-over-year median housing price in November of ... (more)