Power Up Your Real Estate Marketing You might be thinking “what is scaled up real estate marketing? I’m just doing the run of the mill stuff and crossing my fingers.” Happily, you can let go of the traditional approach and ramp up your efforts to perhaps, dare I say, become the market leader? That’s where…
Finding Houses for Sale We half way into 2021, and home prices don’t look to be losing their upward pace. In fact, even as new listings grow and sales plummet, house prices keep climbing past record heights. If you’re hoping to buy a home this year, you’ll need to be very strategic in your home…
US Cities with the Lowest House Prices You might say there is still an affordable housing migration going on. People are moving to find cheaper housing in their city or in other cities across the US. As international travel opens up, we may even find more people selling their home and moving internationally. With respect…
Find Houses for Sale If you’re used to hunting through the MLS listings, you know the pickings are slim. To find a house in 2021, you have to broaden and refine your home search strategy. You may not be successful until 2022, You may not be successful until 2022, however the point is that the…
US Jobs Outlook The bungling of the recent jobs report is a sign of trouble with the current government and a sign the job market is troubled. The current report showed only 266,000 jobs created when almost 1 million were expected. This is a disaster. There are some job market and economic hurdles to deal…
Housing Metros Likely to Crash As the US moves toward the end of the Covid pandemic, flush with cash from stimulus bailouts and payments, it’s hard to imagine a risk for a housing market crash. But it’s not right now, or even 2021 that is the real risk. It’s the pressure of a housing bubble…
Digital Marketing Audit for Small Business In all the years managing my own freelance business and while working with digital marketing agencies, I discovered that small business people are great at what they do. Unfortunately, they’re not experts in digital marketing which is a discipline exploding in complexity. That’s why a digital marketing assessment is a…
Compass Real Estate AI Features Compass Realty has made quite a splash in the US real estate market. This brokerage aims to be one of the biggest in the nation and to bring the power of technology to their real estate team. And with their recent influx of $470 million in recent venture funding, they’re…
How to Rebrand your Content The phrase “content rebranding” is being discussed more online now due to the economic recovery. If your content is your face to customers and the brand they consume, then it must change too. And your content is vital to your company’s success. Some businesses (e.g., restaurants) have already gone through this…
Selling Fast May Mean a Lower Price As I mentioned in another post on selling for a higher price, and sell house fast, speed isn’t a factor on a listing. In fact, the faster you sell the more likely the market hasn’t discovered your property. In fact, getting rid of your precious real estate asset…
Cheap Car Insurance Every year, tens of millions of drivers get their auto insurance renewal papers mailed to them and they simply ignore them and let their policy rollover. That’s money lost! By taking a moment to consider the high rate they’re paying for the type of coverage they’re receiving, they might decline their insurance…
Finding Homes For Sale House hunting has changed. It’s self-directed and much better. A severe housing shortage has enabled all of this and it’s good. Realtors and brokerages are becoming redundant. The housing market has changed and a whole new approach of DIY home hunting is where it’s at now. To get you warmed up…
Best Auto Insurance Quotes Auto insurance rates just keep climbing in 2020, and I’ll bet you’ve done little about that. Even with fewer drivers on the road during Corona Virus, most are paying old rates while insurance companies are seeing low accident claims. If you’re working at home all week or only commuting for a…
Houses for Sale in Los Angeles Finding great homes for sale right now in Los Angeles is a tough challenge. Active home listings have diminished which means home prices will rise. Read more on the rebounding Los Angeles real estate market and the full California housing market and where it’s headed. This info might help…
Housing Stocks to Buy We’re all abuzz about the return of the housing market, but that post shutdown market demand is still not what we expected. Instead of huge waves of home listings and desperate buyers, we’re seeing low levels of listings. It seems the real demand is for new construction homes away from the…
Is the Housing Market Recovering? The housing market in 2020 took at sharp hit when the Covid 19 disease came ashore in the US. But this steep drop had to be followed by a sharp uptick at some point and it looks like it’s in full swing now. So what does a post Corona Virus…
Realtor Lead Generation During the Pandemic A professional real estate sales person’s number one challenge always is to generate quality leads. And this pandemic is making old school lead generation and nurturing almost impossible. The move to the new digital prospecting tools is accelerating. Hopefully you’re getting on board before this big tech wave passes…
The Big Migration: Home Buyers Looking in Rural Areas One definitive trend happening in US housing markets recently is a migration of people from congested urban areas to the burbs and rural regions. Home buyers could be looking to buy houses in quieter remote towns away from expensive big cities. The best cities to buy…
Solving Homelessness in America The issue with homelessness in the US continues into 2021. And in fact, the problem is set to worsen given home prices are rising and we’re not out of the Covid 19 pandemic recession. The issue with homelessness is simple. Not much incentive for building new housing and most of the…
Find the Right Cities to Grow In Are you thinking about how to triple or quadruple your sales in 2018? After just a little thought, you may discover what these 2 reports from Inc.om and Entrepreneur.com below reveal, that there are some great cities to build your business and achieve strong business results. And before…