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2007

Point2 creates Facebook real estate app

By Jessica Swesey, Thursday, July 19, 2007.
It seems like "Facebook" has appeared in just about every blog I've read over the last few weeks. The site is clearly blowing up, and we've been using it to try to connect people who are attending Real Estate Connect...  more...

Newspapers in for 'bloody' days

By Jessica Swesey, Thursday, July 19, 2007.
Richard A. Smith, president of Realogy Corp., the largest brokerage company in the U.S., dropped a bomb on the newspaper industry this week when he told Bloomberg News that the Coldwell Banker and Century 21 branding budgets for newspapers will...  more...

Don't forget to drain the pool

By Matt Carter, Thursday, July 19, 2007.
If your image of the typical home in foreclosure is of a boarded up house in a sketchy neighborhood, here's another picture to file away. Officials in affluent Contra Costa County -- east of San Francisco and a Silicon Valley...  more...

'Taken out of context, I must seem so strange'

By Jessica Swesey, Thursday, July 19, 2007.
Have you ever Googled yourself? I do it regularly -- mainly to see who's reading Inman News, but it also shows in many cases who is illegally stealing content. It's kind of fun and shocking at the same time. (For...  more...

Latest mortgage scam or simply a lot of scared underwriters?

By Real Estate Coach, Thursday, July 19, 2007.
Over the last two weeks, I have been continuing to hear repeated horror stories like the one I experienced getting the loan on my new home. We applied with a major national lender and were pre-approved with our builders' lender....  more...