Real Estate Trends by Stefan Swanepoel
Tracking Trends Shaping the Real Estate Business.
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2008
If you have 5 minutes and haven't seen the clip on You Tube about Hitler discussing real estate, click here - it should bring a smile to your face. Hoping you and your loved ones all have a great Thanksgiving.
11/26/2008
Last weekend, real estate agents and brokers got introduced to yet another social and business network to participate in when online real estate news service, Broker Agent Professional, launched Broker Agent Social. Within the first 100 hours after launch they exploded to 2,000 members - adding a...
11/25/2008
On November 7th, while I was at the NAR convention in Orlando, Fidelity surprised us all by announcing that it would be acquiring LandAmerica in an all stock deal valued at $128 million. This merger would have great the largest title insurance group with about a 45% market share. In terms of the ...
11/22/2008
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Real estate professionals need to think differently about the future. They need to do more and they need to move faster. It has now been more than 10 years since my first book on trends, Real Estate confronts Reality, and many of the changes that we have been writing and speaking about are now co...
11/12/2008
Change seems to be the buzz word this year, with Barack Obama touting "Change We Need," John McCain promoting "Real Change" and even Hillary Clinton saying "Change you can count on." Every year the Swanepoel TRENDS Report identifies, analyzes and then details out the imminent changes that are ex...
11/03/2008
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