dallas homes: Dallas homebuyers: I'm feeling fortunate... Are you? - 09/13/08 09:40 PM
When it comes to real estate, Dallas is a city of opportunity.
I regularly interact with other agents from around the country (including my Dad who is a real estate broker in South Florida). In fact, I recently attended an event with over 5000 Keller Williams agents from around the country... … (2 comments)
dallas homes: The Shifting Sands of Short Sales - One Agent's Perspective - 07/17/08 12:47 AM
It has finally happened. The Short Sale shift has arrived and I have seen it.
Working with Short Sale clients I have always been on the receiving end of phone calls from real estate investors. Mostly ones who were flippers, looking to buy a property, throw a minimal amount of (mostly cosmetic) … (6 comments)
dallas homes: DFW (and Texas) Home Prices are Up… and so are my spirits! - 05/23/08 09:43 PM
It's often difficult, here in Dallas, to be a REALTOR® and also be happy about the local Real Estate news reporting. We suffer, along with many other cities, from a media that is all too anxious to report the doom and gloom of the real estate market. Ironically, when you compare … (0 comments)
dallas homes: 2 new toilets, save $180... Stop wasting water, Priceless. - 05/01/08 10:38 AM
If your home was built before 1992, Dallas Water Utilities wants to help you to be socially responsible and save water. You can get an incentive of $90 per toilet (up to two per household) by replacing older high-flow toilets with newer low-flow models. Their goal is to save 3.5 billion … (0 comments)
dallas homes: Word-a-palooza - Part Deux: A TOD Update - 04/13/08 05:46 PM
Just 2 days ago I posted a Blog entry titled Welcome to Real Estate Word-a-palooza! Anyone have a Dictionary? In it, I wrote about new real estate terminology. One of the terms I discussed was "TOD". For those who missed it, TOD stands for "Transit-oriented Development" and is a term used to describe development … (0 comments)
dallas homes: Welcome to Real Estate Word-a-palooza! Anyone have a Dictionary? - 04/11/08 10:09 PM
To sell real estate in Dallas it used to be the words and terms you needed to know were common ones like condominium, townhouse, Tudor, soft-contemporary. In some parts of town (especially some historic districts) you needed to know the names of the important architects who designed homes that were built … (4 comments)
dallas homes: The magic number. Pricing your home psychologically. - 04/10/08 09:25 PM
Apparently pricing strategy is not limited to choosing the right price range but also choosing a price that makes people think they are not spending a lot. According to a recent research study done by a team at Cornell University people associate large rounded numbers (such as those ending in "000") with … (5 comments)
dallas homes: How tall is your REALTOR? - 01/19/08 11:53 AM
There are some days that I manage to find humor in silly things... I should begin by specifying that my website (http://www.homesalesremedy.com/) has a web statistics feature that allows me to see how people found my website, and if they used a search engine, which keywords or search terms they used to … (14 comments)
dallas homes: 80 Days - Not bad! - 01/12/08 03:36 PM
I recently heard on the news that the average time it takes to sell a house in Dallas is 80 days and that the median price of homes has actually risen (very very slightly). Compared to many other markets in the report, Dallas was near the low end of the DOM scale, only … (4 comments)
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