Manhattan Real Estate The news right now about the New York real estate market couldn’t be worse. The state is reeling from a plague of bad events that could conceivably topple the state and city governments. The work at home, Corona Virus exodus from Manhattan doesn’t seem to be stopping, and with the fall season…
Predictive Metrics and Intelligence for Realtors I can predict you’ll be selling more real estate in 2020 if you get smart about your marketing. A new real estate marketing and sales strategy might include some new technology that’s giving realtors predictive powers. Who wouldn’t want their own crystal ball? It’s new artificial intelligence software complete with…
Real Estate Lead Generation During Corona Virus Pandemic It’s the summer of the pandemic and you’re wondering how you can improve your lead generation. As I explain in other posts on seller leads and Realtor marketing strategy, you must build a big pipeline. There’s a good reason why real estate sales is a game of…
Okanagan Real Estate 35 years ago I rode my bike across the Rocky Mountains and down into the Okanagan Valley where it was 112 F or 42 C. It was 90 miles of scorching heat but it was the best experience, I loved the character of the region. An experience I won’t forget. I could…
Corona Virus and Real Estate Just as the recent job numbers hit a high, the real estate market is making awakening sounds. The virus and shutdown took a heavy toll on the US economy and all economies. The only country to rebound quick is China. But China’s real estate market might be in trouble as…
Why Are There So Few Toronto Homes for Sale? The shortage of houses for sale is a topic has been discussed well on this housing blog for many years now. Not enough pressure has been put on government to promote housing market health. Instead, political ideologies have suppressed the market and now these shortages were…
Best Canadian Cities and Towns to Buy Property Some eager home buyers in Toronto, Mississauga, Montreal, Calgary and Vancouver are waking from their Corona Virus hibernation to check on the latest home price trends. Something has happened that a lot of buyers and sellers might not be aware of. There’s a migration shift happening. The…
The Future of Real Estate While housing markets in US cities waffle back and forth between market crash and price peaks, homebuyers, property investors and Realtors are wondering how real estate will look 5 to 10 years from now. It’s a certainty that new real estate technology (Fintech and Proptech) will shape the path ahead for the real…
Houses for Sale in San Diego Amazing San Diego is ready to welcome you. Get started finding homes for sale anywhere in San Diego including the North County. The number of listings is rising slowly, and the SD real estate forecast is still good, but you must remember that detached houses are at a premium…
Houses for Sale in Boston How’s the Boston Housing market looking going forward in September, October, November and into 2021? Supply of houses for sale will be further constrained and prices will rise in the greater metro area and beyond. You should remember that Realtors like to keep their search within the MLS or from…
Houses for Sale in San Francisco Bay Area Your dream of living the ultimate California lifestyle in San Francisco and the Bay Area could come true in 2020. It’s one of the most desired housing markets in America. A beautiful climate, lots of sunshine, recreation, and a strong business and job market make it perfect…
What’s Wrong with My Real Estate Site? Why doesn’t my site produce traffic or leads? 3 Reasons: it doesn’t have reach via Google, Ads, Facebook, or Linkedin it doesn’t create value or appears you offer no satisfaction it doesn’t engage and generate emotion it doesn’t persuade or convince Let’s Take the First Issue: Google A good…
Mississauga’s Rising Skyline You’re likely aware of how the skyline of Mississauga has changed over the last 6 years. And it was the construction of the Absolute Condominium buildings that seemed to launch the visibility of the City of Mississauga to a new prominence. The city with no identity was gaining new fame around the world because of…
Best Time to Buy a House Right Now? The housing market forecast is still bright heading into the fall season and onto 2021. A strong economy, big demand for houses for sale which offer more rooms, lot sizes and in safer neighborhood is the big trend. The upcoming November election is a big worry for…
Realtors Optimistic About Post Corona Virus Period A new report from the National Association of Realtors suggests most Realtors believe the housing market forecast is for higher prices and fewer listings. It’s great to see these sentiment reports, yet we may need to read between the lines as there is no regional data. The latest…
New Homes for Sale in Newmarket, ON The region of Aurora, Newmarket, and East Gwillimbury are highly desirable locations for families looking for great lifestyles close to urban amenities and rural freedom. Newmarket in particular has been the site of city transit improvements and there’s much work on the roadways and new housing developments. The beautiful…
Searching for a Home 2025 is not far away with its promise of a big release of homes which have been lockedin for the past two years. More will flood onto the market resulting in some price depreciation. Yet buyers should still stick to a plan to acquire the home they want in the ideal…
How Sell Your Home for the Best Price in 2020 The market is heating up again this spring of 2020. Like so many homeowners, you’re wondering if this is the right time to sell? Perhaps you’ll be forced to sell if you’ve lost your job. The Corona Virus recession might be ending in a few…
Demand for Luxury Homes in Aurora Aurora Ontario Canada is one of those special small cities or towns that’s blessed with a great location, warm community, and a special character. It’s more than a place of expensive homes and luxury cars however. If you’ve never heard about Aurora ON, you’ll discover here and in the…
Houses for Sale in New York You’ll enjoy better results in finding a home in New York’s many burroughs online. Finding the best prices for houses for sale in Staten Island, The Bronx, Queens, and Brooklyn is difficult without an advanced search strategy and paying attention to trends in the New York Real Estate forecast….
Real Estate CRM Solution The purpose of a customer relationship management solution is to help you create leads. Is your giving you the lead conversion results you’ve expected? Why do CRM solutions fail? Some experts believe a lack of planning is the reason. Quite possibly the issue for small business is a lack of leads and…
Realtor Branding You might ask why out of 500 visits to your website, only 1 visitor might actually contact you about a listing. That low conversion rate is very typical and it’s the obsession of the latest trend in digital marketing – harvesting the few web visitors you have, rather than building on what you…
New Construction in Aurora – Luxury Living Aurora is a beautiful town set on a small parcel of land in between Bathurst St to the west and Highway 404 to the east. With not much land to develop for new construction projects, the prices of new homes for sale in Aurora and Newmarket are set…
New Housing Developments in York Region 2020 Looking for a new home in the GTA? A lot of buyers are and they’re finding York Region to be most desirable. With the government’s urban density and anti new housing development legislation in effect, new homes are rare north of Toronto. Yet there are a number of new…
Great Real Estate Leads? With the 2020 spring housing market boom not far off, Realtors from San Diego to Denver to Boston to Florida will be trying to ramp up their lead generation. This season will see the lowest supply of resale homes available in a long time. Agents will be turning to the lead generation aggregators…
Real Estate Conferences Should you be booking a spot at the next Realtors Conference and Expo in Orlando Florida? Yes, because the enthusiasm and spirit of these big conventions is something vital for you to experience. And you can bet the top realtors in the industry will be attending speaking about housing trends, realtor strategy, technology and…
Dominate your Market with Great Content What real estate web design and marketing companies have learned is that Realtors want their cake and eat it too. The battle is on to give everything they ask for, but it seems the one key piece that makes it work. Zillow, Real Estate Webmasters, Commissionsinc, and AgentLocators try…
Boca Raton & Palm Beach – The Beverly Hills of Florida A World of Unimaginable Luxury and Lifestyle Might Be Just Right for You It’s easy to sing the virtues of America’s paradise state. If anyone can appreciate the beauty, elegance and potential of Florida, it would be a Canadian suffering through another snowstorm. The cold,…
Houses for Sale Miami Looking for a home in the Miami , Boca Raton or elsewhere in Florida? Perfect, because the houses for sale widget from Zillow below will lead you to a selection of nearly 1000 detached properties. Whether to live in or invest in, houses in the Miami area are in high demand. From…
Denver Houses for Sale The housing market has cooled in Denver. The effect of the oil price plunge and Corona Virus shutdown is casting severe doubts about Colorado’s economy, tax base, tourism, and housing market going forward. Check the Zillow homes for sale below to check for homes for sale in Denver. The market in…
Lucrative Canadian Real Estate Market Spilling over into the US Before Corona Virus plague hit US shores, foreign buyers were a big factor in the US housing market. Foreigners were buying up US properties and the biggest increase is coming from Canadians. Even NAR’s Chief Lawrence Yun was surprised by the growing demand from Canadians…
Video for Realtors Real Estate Video is a selling machine. As you’ll see in a few of the videos below is how video can present properties for sale in a more compelling, engaging way. The end result is more engaged viewers, more interested buyers and ultimately a higher selling price. Video makes your content more valuable…
When Should I Sell My House? Timing is everything when considering the sale of your house. There are a lot of factors that determine demand for your house and the price buyers will pay. In this new economy, buyers will still be hunting for homes but they’ll be more careful and selective. When is the…
Homes for Sale Now, well into 2024, we’re seeing home listings and sales beginning to grow. For buyer’s today, a good home search strategy helps you find great Realtors, learn more about the market and find homes with the characteristics you’re wanting. With home showing requests too numerous for Realtors to manage and the number…
Toronto Apartment Rental Prices Haven’t Dropped Back in 2017: While housing prices rise and hopeful homebuyers in Toronto and Vancouver complain about the rental housing crisis, apartment rentals are growing a little but rents haven’t dropped that much. This persistent situation actually goes back decades as NIMBY organizations were allowed to take away developable land…
Should You Start a Property Management Business? Looking for a profitable business idea for 2025? Who isn’t right? Starting a successful business could very well be a happy, income-boosting, and positive life-changing event. Freedom, self-determination, enjoying work you love, and of course, a potential windfall income is possible. And if your company does well, you…
New Contruction Homes in Bradford West Gwillimbury No town or neighbourhood in the GTA has gone through the level of dramatic changes that the Bradford Ontario area has in the last 6 years. Growth in population, commercial enterprise, and neighbourhoods on the west side along highway 89 has been astonishing and it’s earmarked for more….
Best Party Room Ideas Whether it’s a pool patio, rooftop deck, indoor courtyard, or living area with a spectacular view of the city, the top designers likely enjoy their jobs best when they can design a living area where parties or get togethers are going to happen. Do these rooms and spaces make it more…
Are Solar Roofing Installations a Powerful Selling Feature? We know how expensive hydro is becoming for the average homeowner. Power generating companies are in big debt and will have to keep raising prices to their diminishing user base chasing more homeowners offgrid. And power companies are highly polluting which does not jive well with the mandates…
Time is Running Out: Grow, Monopolize or Die I don’t have to tell you the Real Estate sales profession is ultracompetitive and demanding, or that it’s getting worse. You experience that headache every day and night. Below, you’ll find 3 Keys to Carving out Your Monopoly. And if you’ve grown your website and sales success already,…
Beautiful New Condo Buildings in Toronto Over the last 10 years, condo design has undergone dramatic shifts. Engineers are able to build whatever condo architects can dream up. Normally dull and unimaginative, the skylines and communities of Toronto and Vancouver are undergoing rapid change with spectacular results in living and visual appeal. In fact, we’re enjoying an explosion of…
Federal Courts Rule in Favour of Anti Trust Legislators Back in 2017, the Federal Court of Appeal has upheld an April, 2016 decision made by Canada’s Competition Tribunal. It ordered the Toronto Real Estate Board to allow its members to share the sales histories of listed properties online. This ruling relates as well to the…
11 Better Ways to Generate Real Estate Leads I know, you get all your leads from word of mouth and all the rest might not have panned out for you. What you may not be recognizing is that all channels power up your personal referral network and build word-of-mouth referrals from anywhere. Acquiring easy leads…
Compare RETS vs FTP IDX Feeds The first thing visiting homebuyers want to see on your real estate website are home listings. But when they arrive, they may get a troublesome map widget to frustrate them, or mls listing pages with uninteresting and non-engaging pics and descriptions. What’s worse, is that your current listings aren’t…
Are we in a Housing Bubble? The topic of a housing crash usually coincides with the topic of the housing bubble. The word Crash may be too intense, arguable, and a word that’s hyped too often. The bubble topic focuses on high prices, big mortgage debt, recessions and high flying lifestyles. Are we within a…
Malibu California Homes For about a century, Malibu has been the favorite beach retreat for business moguls and celebrities. Legendary landscapes, scenic beaches, and gorgeous parks makes this region a Trophy Location for wealthy celebrities and Billionaires alike. Malibu’s incredible beaches, surfing hotspots, exquisite views, Mediterranean climate and proximity to the Santa Monica Mountain National…
Rental Income Property Investment With your initial financing concerns aside, rental properties can offer a high, continuous extra income to help pay off your mortgage, meet repairs, and add confidence to your investment decision. If the work concerns you, consider using rental property management software to help out. Cynics might point to cash flow issues,…
What is Going on With Vancouver’s High Home Prices? Where is the Vancouver housing market headed for 2020 and 2021? Some are calling this latest jump in prices a recovery of some sort. Yet, it seems rather sudden. Is this bubble sure to burst? It was only 10 months ago that Vancouver home sales dropped…
Vancouver Condo Market Still Booming As you may have read in the Vancouver housing market forecast for October, sales of homes and condos have rocketed. It’s unsure of why demand is so intense right now. That demand has spilled eastward into the interior and the Okanagan Valley, where buyers from Calgary are bidding up home…
Should I Buy a House Now or Wait? With the US economy doing well, and amidst a record bull run in the stock market, buyers here are asking again whether they should launch efforts to buy a house. They’re also asking when is the best time to buy a house? Young buyers in particular have…
New Home Developments in Richmond Hill ON Almost quietly, Richmond Hill has grown to almost 200,000 residents which is Canada’s 26th largest city. The astonishing speed of population growth is due to the fact it is covers a large area north of Toronto, and many Toronto area homeowners are selling and moving to Richmond Hill….
The Vaughan Real Estate and Community Development Report The city of Vaughan is still a mystery to many people in the GTA yet this fast improving community is serving up some big lifestyle benefits for residents. The development plan for Vaughan is audacious and exciting as these videos below reveal. This post offers a good look…
The High Cost of Indifference and Inaction (COI) Have you ever calculated the cost of all the opportunities you passed on, if you’d been a little more aggressive and ready? Only successful people think about things like that because the COI is big dollars. It’s possible though that what we’ve given up, ignored and weren’t aware of was worth 10…
Creative, Sustained, High Value Real Estate Marketing Your choice to become a Realtor is brilliant. You’re right. It is the best profession and when you check out the Toronto real estate forecast for 2017 and beyond, you realize realty will continue to be profitable. But now you must evolve to become a digital realtor. As…
$5000 Referral Fee? I’m searching for a highly intelligent, big minded, and modestly successful real estate agent in Los Angeles, San Diego, or San Francisco. If they buy my elite realtor services package, I will pay you a $5000 referral fee (paid in installments of course with performance bonuses). This means if you help me…
Maximize your Impact to Hungry Buyers and Investors The housing market is so hot, we might think we could put a home up for sale in any condition, site unseen and get tons of offers. Yet if getting a property sold is a no brainer in 2017, then maybe you should be doing more to get…
Should You Use Zillow for Realtor Leads? Zillow.com has become the largest real estate advertising network on the web. They are key providers of info related to US housing market forecasts. Only 14 years ago, in 2006, the company was launched by two former employees of Microsoft. Since then, the Seattle based upstart has purchased…
Successful Real Estate Sales To serve my realtor clients as best I can, I needed to know what successful agents do and what unsuccessful agents don’t do. What I’ve learned about agents, I can apply to my own real estate marketing service. You can never be too good. As the realtor in the video below…
Realtors Biggest Pain From Dallas to New York and San Francisco CA, Big Picture realtors hate technical details. You want easy to understand, tangible, measurable deliverables such as guaranteed leads yet the legit real estate marketing world has little to offer. Success is complicated and not everything comes in neat packages. SEO and social media and websites…
When Will Toronto’s Real Estate Market Crash? The experts have been calling for a Toronto Housing Crash for several years now, but it never happened. But is time finally running out? Surely the oil price crisis and the Corona Virus pandemic will deliver the final blow to Toronto’s pressured housing sector. But no, die it…