To Stand Out, Provide A Unique Service To Your Client Real estate is a personal service business. To stand out from the crowd, you have give your clients something others don't. If you do, those clients will give you priceless...  more...

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To stage or not to stage? Cindy Lin, who stages homes in the San Francisco area, writes today on her ActiveRain blog about how a condo she dressed up sold in 7 days for more than asking price -- even...  more...

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Fishing with a big dot-net A company in Australia that operates the Rooms.net and Local.net Web sites paid $300,000 for the RealEstate.net Web site domain, the company announced today. The company, Real Estate.NET Holdings Pty Ltd., based in Newcastle, Australia,...  more...

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Debate: Will small get bigger in real estate? Many large real estate franchise companies have spent years building world-class brokerage brands through television advertising and traditional brand marketing campaigns. And it paid off. Realogy (formerly Cendant) brands alone (Coldwell Banker,...  more...

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Coming this week! Take a look at InmanWiki, the world's largest online real estate encyclopedia where you can participate, write entries, and discuss today's hot real estate topics. Go ahead, strut your stuff, show off your knowledge and participate! Be...  more...

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King of the Hill Why is Countrywide Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Angelo R. Mozilo licking his chops in anticipation that 2007, in his words, will be a year of "increased borrower delinquencies and continued credit deterioration"? Because Countrywide, Mozilo...  more...

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The Buzz on the Relo Biz Inman News wants to hear your views on market trends and key issues in the relocation industry. Has the market slowdown impacted relocation business in your area? What's happening with referral fees? What trends...  more...

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Double Bubble Trouble Real estate data site PropertyShark.com has launched a new "Bubble Map" tool that highlights areas with a drop in the number of sales and areas with a drop in the value of sales. The company is launching...  more...

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60 Minutes Interviews Redfin CEO John Cook from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer breaks the news that the veteran news program 60 Minutes will be doing an expose' on the real estate industry. Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman has already been interviewed. Apparently,...  more...

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Realogy announces March merger vote Cendant Corp. real estate spin-off Realogy Corp. today announced a special meeting of stockholders at 10 a.m. EST on March 30 in Parsippany, N.J., to consider whether to adopt an agreement that provides for the...  more...

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Massachusetts market dropouts The Boston Herald newspaper reports that the number of licensed real estate professionals in the state has dropped about 1,300 over the past year, according to statistics from a state agency. There are still about 82,722 licensed...  more...

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Traditional media begins to embrace bloggers Alongside transparency in real estate, I've been fascinated with the new transparency in journalism and the sea change taking place in how news is being reported. I've addressed how the traditional media is losing...  more...

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BloodhoundBlog week in review . . . We had quite a week at BloodhoundBlog. If you haven't had a chance to stay abreast of the trail we're running, here's a summary of the week's most significant weblog entries. We added...  more...

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Realty Blogging, a book by online marketing experts Richard Nacht and Paul Chaney, is now the best-selling blogging book on Amazon.com. Subtitled, "Build your brand and outsmart your competition," the book shows real estate professionals how to utilize blogs as...  more...

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Telling the Truth Sells Houses? Talking up the good and minimizing the bad is pretty much standard fare for most listing descriptions. But what if you told it just like it is? Ed Boyle from CBS News tells the story...  more...

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