HomeGain Announces 2009 Top Performers - 01/27/10 12:21 PM
Congratulations to the 2009 HomeGain Top Performing Realtors
 
We are pleased to announce the HomeGain AgentEvaluator® Top PerformersTM of 2009.
Many HomeGain real estate agents and brokers had successful years, despite the downturn in home prices nationwide. We are proud to recognize these agents for their high level of accomplishment in association with HomeGain's AgentEvaluator marketing program.
In addition to highlighting the 2009 Top Performers Nationwide, by Region, by State, and Rookie Agents of the Year, HomeGain recognizes agents who had impressive results and are deserving of honorable mentions.
HomeGain is proud that we can quantify the many successes of our … (2 comments)

Google Moves into Mortgage - Thoughts on Google's Left-Side/Right Side Move - 01/19/10 05:10 PM
Today it was announced that Google was launching a mortgage comparision service.
This is a shrewd move by the Mountain View Giant as it neatly meets all of Google's objectives:
-it provides compelling useful content for its users;
-it opens another revenue stream; and
-it does not canabalize its existing ad words business in any meaningful way.
Google currently is not monetizing more than one half of its asset- the left side of the page natural search results.
Google has companies falling over themselves producing content to get noticed by Google.
If they are successful Google rewards them with top SEO positioning on the left … (4 comments)

Ten Real Estate Predictions for 2008 - 01/02/10 11:03 AM
It's always fun to try and predict the future. Its even more fun to go back and see how right or wrong you might have been
Here are my 2008 predictions- made before the Bear Stearns and Lehman Brothers failures, before the JP Morgan Stanley Fed orchestrated take over of Merrill Lynch, before Obama was a household word  and before the worst hit.
I pretty much got it right as I predicted slightly declining home values, a Congressional half bailout of homeowners that would cost a lot and not really solve the problem, declining interest rates etc.
I'm tempted to do a 2010 predictions list. … (0 comments)