The Matt Hayes Group :: Industry Insider Blog

...we are in a buyer's market.  By the law of supply and demand, we are in a buyer's market.  There is more inventory than ready, willing and able buyers in the market.  BUT it also depends WHERE you are.  Each community and each neighborhood is different.  Each has their own feel and style of ho...

I can't wait.  I haven't been this excited about getting a package from FedEx since I was probably a little boy waiting for some make-your-own-radio-station kit that didn't even work because I can't solder to save my life (and I have a ham radio license, go figure!).I ordered a brand new Blackber...

In real estate time, I'm new to the industry.  I've been licensed since 2005, so I'm still in that 3 year window.  But more and more I notice little things that real estate agents do not do that I wonder "why do you do that?"  They may be nothing, but when I run them through my marketing beliefs ...

Today on a few acres of a former steel yard near downtown Cleveland, the first store in Steelyard Commons opened up: Home Depot.  Okay, so another Home Depot opened up.  Big deal.  But if you look at where this Home Depot is located, it is a bigger deal than what you think.A local real estate dev...

I'm putting my Verizon XV6700 up on Ebay today since I switched to a Treo.  (anyone interested in purchasing it???)  I'm also going to be putting on many other tech toys on ebay today: a Skytel 2-way pager which I don't use, a Motorola alpha-numeric pager which I don't use, and a few other older ...

For some reason, spending quality time cleaning out my home office has motivated me to get the little things that I need to have done completed.  I just finished my new open house flyer template to hand out when I walk door to door to promote an open house.  My files are ready to be sent off for ...

Tonight, President Bush will give his State of the Union address to Congress and the country.  Putting political opinions of Iraq aside, there seems to be this "understanding" that the real estate side of the economy is "bad."I happen to disagree.  Real estate is still going strong!This afternoon...

I decided to get out of the office to work on a few items on my laptop at a local coffee house in my neighborhood.  I walk in, sit next to a gentleman who has blueprints sitting next to him.  I ask him if he's building and find out he just did build, but is a business owner who is investing in re...