career: Distressed vs. Non-distressed Housing Market - 10/29/12 09:51 AM
Some national reports site that the improvement in the housing market has been in better neighborhoods and for non-distressed properties. There is no question we have a bifurcated market.
Nationally non-distressed properties are down on average 25% from the peak while the distressed property market is down 40%. Numerous charts show the non-distressed segment has shown far more (relative) price stability than the overall market.
Whether you call it a bifurcated market or a market duality it is interesting to analyze the impact of distressed sales on the overall market. When valuing a home I think it’s important to understand what … (2 comments)

career: Worthy Customer - Worthy Broker? - 10/01/12 11:37 AM
As real estate professionals we spend an incredible amount of time managing our Sphere’s and prospecting, always in search of the “Worthy Customer”.  While, there is often great debate about methods, I tend to subscribe to the simple philosophy scribed by Dave Beeson, “everything works and nothing doesn’t’”.  In other words, there are too many who were in our industry, who no longer practice real estate, yet make blanket statements about what works and what doesn’t and surprise, surprise, they typically have a solution that you can purchase to prove their point! Of course, that is a subject for an entirely … (0 comments)

career: Mobile Marketing? You May Already Be Doing It! - 09/24/12 02:23 AM
Welcome, and thanks for taking a look at the next installment in a series of blogs by Coldwell Banker Bain Principal Managing Brokers.  I am George Roth, Principal Managing Broker of the Coldwell Banker Bain Anacortes office.

When I was approached about writing for this blog, I was asked to dedicate my story to mobile marketing.  My first reaction was that I didn’t think I was an expert at mobile marketing, but as I began to write down some notes, I quickly realized something – we already ARE doing mobile marketing – and quite a bit of it!  Here’s … (0 comments)

 
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