A Real Estate Blog

This afternoon, one of our newer agents greeted me at the office with an "exciting new prospect" he had met over the weekend. The lead involved a mobile-home about 20 miles east of our main market area. After about 10 minutes of discussion I helped guide him to referr the prospect to an agent in ...

So.....you have a Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Tumblr, LinkedIn, ActiveRain, Picassa, Flickr..etc. accounts and you are a bonafide  netizen happily posting on every topic in and out of real estate with complete abandon. What you may not realize is that the web is so interlaced that the persona tha...

Recently I attended a professional networking event that was surprisingly light on real estate professionals. As I navigated the crowd I found myself constantly talking to people who were seeking entering my industry because they felt that this was "a good time to learn because business was relat...

Well CENTURY 21's Open House Month is here and we're thrilled to promote the opportunity for someone to win $221,000 from CENTURY 21 as part of "The Path to Your Dreams" sweepstakes. Our agents are out in force with several Open Houses this sunny So. Cal. weekend and we've outfitted our site http...

The Tech Committe for the Arcadia Association of REALTORS is thrilled to announce Tuesday, April 21, 2009 as the date for its 23rd Annual Tech Business & Green Expo. The no-cost (to all REALTORS) has recently been re-engineered to incorportate and showcase Green and Earth friendly vendors and tec...

I came to Real Estate when I was hired as an assistan/transaction coordinator to a top producing CENTURY 21 agent soon after the Internet bubble had burst and lay-offs where rampant. I remember walking into that busy office in awe of the speed in which things occurred. Dozens of agents packed the...

CENTURY 21 President/CEO Tom Kunz spoke today on CNBC regarding the uptick in sales that we have been experiencing over the last few months.You can see his video here: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=1073863086&play=1I was thrilled to see our CEO sporting the Gold Jacket and positively des...

Approximately three weeks ago I posted a discussion on Zillow.com entitled "Let's All Rally" where I marked the stock market's 4 day streak of gains as a possible spring board towards recovery and how Real Estate professionals could use the positive news as way to prompt fence sitting buyers towa...

After a review of the company's production this week, Broker Tom Adams announced a 200% increase in sides (one half of a sale) closed over the same first quarter period last year. The numbers for the company's Monrovia office (for the same measured period )were 160%.The announcement came on the h...

Every week, our local board of REALTORS get together to caravan homes from 10 to 1 pm. Some have argued that broker caravans are no longer needed because of the information available on-line. I disagree because: 1) It gives the real estate community the opportunity to get know one another which i...