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Expert expects tight credit through 2010 Premium Content

By Patrick S. Duffy, Tuesday, June 9, 2009.
Real Estate and the Financial Crisis

When Anthony Downs, a Stanford-educated economist and well-known real estate writer, was finishing up his latest book, "Real Estate and the Financial Crisis: How Turmoil in the Capital Markets is Restructuring Real Estate Finance," the turmoil was so great that he had to revise his draft six times before submitting it for publication.

But I'm glad he did, because for anyone seeking to gain a comprehensive understanding of the historical economic and political trends which have led us to the current day, this book could be a good fit.  more...

RE/MAX has national TV to itself

By Inman News, Tuesday, June 9, 2009.

RE/MAX International Inc. was the only real estate franchise promoting its brand in national television advertisements during the first three months of the year, the company said in announcing a new series of 30-second spots.

Last year, RE/MAX had a 50 percent share of national TV ad impressions generated by real estate franchises, the company said, citing figures from Nielsen Monitor-Plus.Century 21 was next with 23 percent, followed by Coldwell Banker (21 percent) and ERA and Prudential, which each had 3 percent of national TV ad impressions in the category.  more...

Laying claim to real estate domains Premium Content

By Matt Carter, Tuesday, June 9, 2009.

The auctioneer's gavel is scheduled to fall on more than 2,600 properties Thursday in San Francisco, but these "properties" aren't homes or land -- they're "geotargeted" real estate-related Web site domain names that incorporate the names of cities and places around the U.S. and the world.

Domain name auctions are commonplace, but it's "extremely rare" for this many real estate-related domain names to be offered for sale together, according to Moniker, the company that will handle the transfer of the names after the auction.  more...