Finding Real Estate Leads With the buyer market drying up and home owners retreating for better times to sell their home, perhaps in 2024, a large number of Realtors are leaning hard on lead generation companies. As one of my clients once said, sales is a game of numbers. Yes, as volume grows, so does…
HECM’s or Reverse Mortgages – A Good Choice? Many senior-aged homeowners have built up substantial equity in their homes. Consider that homes have doubled in value in the last 20 years, and it’s created a windfall of wealth (on paper). A reverse mortgage is a unique type of mortgage. It’s different than a home equity…
Improve your Google SEO during a Recession? When an economy is roaring during a bull market run, with GDP rising nicely and consumer demand continuously ramping skyward, marketing can deliver a big impact on company earnings. But it was easy. B2B managers and consumers were shopping with abandon as price and funds/income ceased to be…
Why are Real Estate Prices so Persistently High? From the US to Canada and Australia, home prices are extremely high and they may not fall, according to housing experts. In fact, 2024 is likely to see more home price growth. There is some outrage, but there’s little action about it, because people don’t know what’s…
FaceBook META Stock Price Forecast Facebook announced its 3rd quarter earnings results and posted a drop of 4% YoY to $27.7 billion. They reported a net income of 22 billion which is only half of what it earned in Q3 of 2021. It was only the 2nd quarterly decline in the company’s history. Investors didn’t like…
Be Smart, Sell your House Soon It’s taken a long time, but experts are finally calling for a recession. And the housing market? Well, they’re talking crash now. It’s not hard to understand, given there is no way home buyers can qualify for mortgages, which look like they could be headed very high. New loans…
Home Equity Lines of Credit (HELOC) We don’t often think of the housing market as a store of usable wealth. Yet, a good portion of the wealth created by people is sunk into this one investment. That means the value is leveraged by the banks when they lend out. They enjoy the profit from having…
A Real Estate Agent Near Me Home prices peaked in summer 2022, but sales prices are still very high right across the US. There is a grand opportunity, if you make good choices to get close to your imagined selling price. Although the government is pushing the economy into recession, it will take some time….
When Will It Be a Great Time to Buy a Home Again? In September, prospective homebuyers once again sat on the sidelines, and even backed out of intended purchases. The task for a good Realtor near you has never been greater, whether you’re selling or buying. Stats from the latest housing market report show home…
Market Experts Give their Predictions If you’re relying on predictions and forecasts, or just guidance from fund managers, investment advisors, and economists, we have the opinions of a few right here. Would investment and fund managers speak honestly if it affected the value of their funds and caused investors to sell their shares? Just something…
Best Dow Jones Stocks The Dow Jones index is enjoying quite a couple of days now in October. The index has risen 1400 points in the last two days. It might be just another bear market bounce, part of the volatility of a stock market that doesn’t know where it’s going. And these events are…
HomeBuyers Backing out of Home Deals A new report by Real Estate Firm Redfin on August’s pending home sales stats shows buyers are backing out of deals in the US Sunbelt cities. In particular, Phoenix, Tampa and Las Vegas. Jacksonville Florida were cited as suffering the greatest increase in cancelled deals. It comes as buyer…
Top Trending Stocks Should watching the top trending stocks be part of your everyday investment and trading activities? Every rise in stock isn’t critical, but some rises reflect major company/product/market breakthroughs that send the company to another level of profitability. Which stocks are going up or down? Which sectors are growing or falling? It’s important…
SPDR Fund SPY Stocks Exchange traded funds are a popular investment vehicle for millions of stock trading enthusiasts. One of the original and most prominent ETFs is the SPDR, or SPY stocks as they’re known. ETFs are composed of stocks purchased and when actively managed, the ETF manager decides on which stocks to buy and…
Will the Fed Pivot before a Market Crash? There’s been frequent mention of a Fed pivot in the last two months. Both sides on the topic have fashioned evidence showing how their view is the correct one. For instance, there is the view that Powell and the Fed will not pull back on raising interest…
The Dow Jones and its 4 Indices Retail and institutional investors both are scrambling in the face of another market collapse to find investible securities in this last quarter of 2022. It’s in these darkest hours of the markets that everyone rethinks where the real opportunities are. We often don’t record our change of perspective,…
The Best Stocks to Buy The Dow Jones, NASDAQ, S&P and Russell 2000 are rising of late, and the outlook for 2024 is promising. Lingering inflation, debt ceiling, and international trade issues will plague the markets. However, 2024 with lower interest rates, should be a great year, which means moving money from the money markets…
Work from Home Offices a Popular Solution The pandemic accelerated a national business and housing market trend that was already running hot in 2019 — working from home. The reality of working and living at home, and getting work done isn’t so simple however and there is a need for solutions. The backyard office is…
When is the Next Stock Market Correction? Predicting the next stock market crash is never easy. So many economic, political, and international trade factors and more, are difficult to predict. We might think any mention of a stock market crash is pessimistic. Yet awareness of the factors that precede a crash is important for pensioners,…
House Features Most Wanted Today What are buyers wanting in their next home this year? It’s an interesting mix of features, yet are these features you’d be willing to upgrade for to sell your home at a higher price? NAHB conducted a survey of new home buyers about what they were looking for in a…