European Model Gaining Ground in U.S. Despite Tough Market

We think it is interesting to note that during these very difficult times in real estate a new comer to the U.S. real estate market is successfully expanding their franchise operations. As Stefan Swanepoel reported today in Inman news (http://www.inman.com/node/94265)  Engel & Völkers announced that it signed its 555th license, worldwide, with the signing of the license region for Beverly Hills, Bel Air and Westwood in California. By way of background, Engel & Völkers is a luxury real estate company headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that has a unique international property shop concept.   All Engel & Völkers franchises must be built [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00April 17th, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Our Services|Comments Off on European Model Gaining Ground in U.S. Despite Tough Market
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Looking for a way to communicate good news about the real estate market?

We all see way too much negative press about the real estate market in the mainstream press these days.  Its nice when we see a company that has launched a product to help the REALTOR® take back control of communication of the localized market trends in their region. Real Estate Business Services, division of the California Association of REALTORS launched a product a few months ago that allows agents to share local neighborhood market stats. The product called CLARUS MarketMetrics, powered by Terradatum’s robust data analysis software allows an agent to enter a few pieces of information and then the product [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00April 14th, 2009|Main category|Comments Off on Looking for a way to communicate good news about the real estate market?
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to err is human, in terms of social MLS

Portland is the site for the Connections 2009 conference, welcoming a select group of real estate dignitaries to discuss the evolution of our industry and the painful realities that hold us back. I will be speaking briefly to the lawyers who write the pages of rules that govern order in the vast lands of MLS - I applaud their work. Sharing - the cornerstone of web 2.0 - is the terrorist threat to protecting MLS data from misuse, and I found some rather interesting mis-uses of data on the web that illustrate the challenges facing rules and rules enforcement.Although I do [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00April 14th, 2009|Main category, MLS Insights|Comments Off on to err is human, in terms of social MLS
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What happens to online inquiries? This study may offer clues

In 2008, WAV Group did three studies that observed and measured scenarios of real estate listing websites.  The Broker Website Effectiveness study measured 1 million consumers and thier engagement with Broker Websites across the country. The MLS Consumer Website effectiveness study measured conusmer and member satisfaction with HAR’s successful public website.  The Listhub Listing Syndication Study reviewed the number of consumers and leads that were driven to brokers as a result of syndicating listings to more than 30 popular thrid party websites. Fellow real estate industry vetran and consultant, Ken Jenny met with me at the CMLS conference in Minneapolis last fall.  Ken [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00April 9th, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on What happens to online inquiries? This study may offer clues
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A Document a Day Keeps the Paper Away

Real estate is a very paper-intensive business.  There are millions of dollars spent every year printing, processing and storing paper.  Finally, the concept of processing real estate paperwork online is coming into its own.  A few years ago when WAV Group completed its 2005 WAV Group Transaction Management Adoption Study, it appeared as though the industry was not that interested or even ready to complete its transaction online. Today, all of that has changed. […]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00April 7th, 2009|Main category|Comments Off on A Document a Day Keeps the Paper Away
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Instanet is Growing and Expanding its sales team! Check out this National Account Manager Position

Instanet has demonstrated phenomenal growth over the past couple of years. They have experienced huge increases in participation with their electronic faxing, online forms, document management and transaction management product suite.They are expanding their sales team and are looking for another National Account Manager to continue to expand their presence throughout North America.  WAV Group has been retained to help find a terrific candidate to continue to drive new growth for the company. If you are an experienced sales professional with an established network of MLS and Association relationships, and would like to learn more about the position: POSITION TITLE:    [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00April 1st, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on Instanet is Growing and Expanding its sales team! Check out this National Account Manager Position
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Zillow is likely to become a new top competitor to realtor.com and yahoo

Do you know where your listings are going? Realtor.com and realestate.yahoo.com have been battling it out for the top spot in the nation for real estate property search.  Now a rising contender is in the mix, zillow.com in a move that could break the virtual tie between zillow and trulia forever. An early secret to realtor.com was the extension of thier property search site to more than 100 other prominent domains - now zillow.com has answered by winning the business of more than 180 newspapers, drawing them in direct competition with the top search sites and especially Homefinder.com.  This added [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00April 1st, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, Uncategorized|Comments Off on Zillow is likely to become a new top competitor to realtor.com and yahoo
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What To Do When Your Hard Drive Crashes – and Before!

If you have had the fun experience of losing a drive anytime you know how frustrating it is as well as potentially damaging to your business.  I have lost a number of drives over the years on PCs but luckily my data was backed up or the content was not that important.  Then, I lost my drive I was using to back up my PCs and due to needing to free up some space, I didn’t still have a copy of some of the files on my PC.  What to do? Call the Drive Doctor! The good news is there [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:30-07:00March 31st, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on What To Do When Your Hard Drive Crashes – and Before!
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Maintain Long-term Customers with Virtual Office Websites

Part Five of a Five part series “Roadmap to using VOWs in your business.” In this fifth of a series of five articles about Virtual Office Websites or VOW’s we are going to discuss the ways to use a VOW to work more effectively with past clients. Many REALTORS fail to stay connected to clients they have already done transactions with. Evidence of this is borne out in NARs 2008 Homebuyer and Seller survey. 9 out of 10 consumers would use their agent in a future transaction but only 1 in 10 use the agent again for buying and only [...]

By |2020-10-06T13:51:11-07:00March 23rd, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category, MLS Insights, Virtual Office Website Series|Comments Off on Maintain Long-term Customers with Virtual Office Websites
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More about Twitter for Real Estate or Twitterstate

I joined twitter in June, 2007. Here is my first tweet. Trying to figure out why Brad Inman has selected a guy like Hugh MacLeod, a self professed twitter-head to be the key note speaker Connect1:42 PM Jun 26th, 2007 from web In retrospect - I Brad was onto something very early on, but oddly enough he did not post to Twitter until April 18th, 2008. We posted a very successful post here on the blog called Twitterstate: twitter for real estate.  The post is indexed on the first page of google, yahoo and other search engines for the keyword [...]

By |2018-05-03T21:26:31-07:00March 22nd, 2009|Broker-Agent Information, Main category|Comments Off on More about Twitter for Real Estate or Twitterstate
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