Real Estate Trends by Stefan Swanepoel

I am surprised that this discussion has surfaced again… that speculation on whether the real estate transaction will be completely automated and that like travel agents and book retailers, Realtors® have become a dying breed and will disappear completely. Not true. Yes of course, Technology, the...

I attended my first NAR convention in 1987 in Honolulu, Hawaii. Pity we have outgrown that location. This year’s event was however in a great location, New Orleans. It has been five years since the devastation of Katrina and you can see that the buzz in the French Quarter has returned with the b...

Last year as we approached the annual National Association of Realtors® (NAR) conference discussion, the residential brokerage industry was centered around the Tax Credit, the growing number of firms that were struggling to stay in business, and the exploding number of Realtors® that had dual ca...