Tom Stevens, (former President of NAR) has been trying to sell his Virginia home since 2005 . 766 days on the market*. That’s not a typo. We posted on it last September, after it had been on the market for a year. (here.)
The house has been reduced to $1.285 million (from $1.45 […]
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How Not To Sell a Home: Ask NAR President
Published by November 12th, 2007 in Real Estate News. 31 CommentsLocal News Mapped and Yapped on Yourstreet
Published by October 30th, 2007 in Cool Websites, Real Estate Map, Real Estate News and Real Estate Technology. 4 CommentsIf you want more than hyper local news, Yourstreet may be a website worth visiting. Simply type in a city and state, zip code or neighborhood and you get:
a snippet of news (about 1 sentence) , with a link to the original news source (and full story)
a map, with those little stick pins, identifying […]
Press Releases Disguised as News?
Published by October 23rd, 2007 in Google, Marketing tips, Real Estate News and Yahoo. 8 CommentsA good press release can read like journalistic news. But do consumers know the difference between press releases and “real” news stories— you know the ones written by schooled journalists and not skilled PR copywriters? Perhaps not.
It seems online news distributors are letting press releases get into the news pipeline, along with […]
How to Win a Free House in Africa: Don’t Be Late
Published by October 12th, 2007 in Real Estate News and Real estate. 1 CommentIf you live in Cote d’Ivoire, formerly known as the Ivory Coast, the government wants to give you a free house. All you have to do is show up on time for work. Yes, that’s it. The government believes work tardiness is so bad, it’s hurting the economy.
Pitching the slogan ‘African time’ […]
REBNY Launches Its Residential NYC Search Website
Published by September 29th, 2007 in Real Estate News and Real estate search. 3 CommentsThe Real Estate Board of New York (REBNY), the NYC equivalent of an MLS, has launched the Trulia built search engine/portal Residential NYC.com. Consumers can now freely search exclusive sale listings of REBNY members, without having to get inky fingers from checking The New York Times classifieds or visiting each broker’s website — and non-REBNY […]
Trulia Launches Graphic Tools: PlotorNot and Truliaholic
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Real Estate News, Real Estate Technology, Search, Sellsius Real Estate Blog, Technology and Trulia.
Trulia has just launched two interesting data mashups, PlotorNot and Truliaholic.
PlotorNot will graph any correlation between two factors you choose to compare. PlotorNot merges data for cities across the US with a diverse group of demographic variables (crime, age, rainfall, sex offenders, aver. list price, etc.) to answer questions such as: “Is […]
Top 10 Home Technologies For 2007
Published by February 21st, 2007 in Home Improvement, Real Estate News, Real Estate Technology, Real estate, Sellsius Real Estate Blog and Technology.The Partnership for Advancing Technology in Housing (PATH.org) announced its Top 10 Technologies for 2007. The top ten are:
1. Mold Resistant Gypsum
2. Solar Water Heating
3. Recycled Concrete Substitutes
4. Combined Heat & Power
5. Horizontal Axis Washer/Dryer (wash and dry in one)
6. Hydrophilic Impact-Resistant Windows
7. Super-sized (Vertical) ICFs (Insulated concrete forms)
8. Induction Cooktops (I have […]
Housing Decline Causing Real Estate Blogging Surge?
Published by February 17th, 2007 in Blogging, NAR, Real Estate Marketing, Real Estate News, Real estate and Sellsius Real Estate Blog. 6 Comments The Scream (E. Munch 1910)
The widest housing decline in the history of its surveys was reported by NAR in its 4Q 2006 report. According to the statistics, housing sales fell in 40 states and the median sales price dropped in 49% of 149 metropolitan areas, also the largest decline in the report’s 27 […]
Home Love at HomeHugg
Published by February 14th, 2007 in Real Estate 2.0, Real Estate Marketing, Real Estate News, Real estate and Sellsius Real Estate Blog. 7 CommentsLove is in the air today. Incredible Agent just launched a new website called HomeHugg.
When its community members see a home they like on another website they “hugg” it. Once hugged, the property is listed on HomeHugg with a link back to the listing on the agent’s website. Visitors to HomeHugg can […]
Inman News Finger Points To Sellsius
Published by February 5th, 2007 in Blogging, Inman News, Real Estate Marketing, Real Estate News, Real Estate Technology, Real Estate Value, Real estate and Sellsius Real Estate Blog.Last night, we submitted our exclusive Super Bowl question post, Is Real Estate Valuation Just A Finger Pointing To The Moon? to the Inman Blog and woke up today with a batch of readers from Inman News. What the Fark? So we clicked over and saw the post elevated to an Inman News article […]
