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How Music Dated the Real Estate Listing

How Music Dated the Real Estate Listing

Many online classifieds don’t directly reflect data of ‘how long a property has been on the market’ as top-level information for online consumers. Recently, we were browsing listings in the Phoenix metropolitan and came across a “choice” listing online (20 photos, good detail, virtual tour, video tour, etc)…a…

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Technology Cost vs. Value

Technology Cost vs. Value

As an owner of an online marketing tool that is always expanding its options and features, I am wondering what technology enhancements does to your listing fee.  We all know that in each brokerage there are those that “Get It” and those that don’t.  With…

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Carnival Of Real Estate #93 — Mexican Style

Carnival Of Real Estate #93 — Mexican Style

Sorry, I just have to do it — link to fellow Geek Estate contributor Jay Thompson twice in the same day (prior link)! This week’s Carnival of Real Estate, posted at Phoenix Real Estate Guy, is just too good NOT to link to it.

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Increasing Business By Defaults

Increasing Business By Defaults

In August of 2005, the real estate market began to shift and adjust. Notice of Default recordings were on the rise, Trustees Sales began to emerge, then the Foreclosures, REO’s, (Bank Owned) and Real Estate Auctions started to dominate many of our markets across the…

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Brad Andersohn from Active Rain Joins the Geeks

Brad Andersohn from Active Rain Joins the Geeks

Please join me in welcoming our newest Geek to the Geek Estate Blog — Brad Andersohn, who is one of three community builders at Active Rain (you can find his blog here). With over 22 years experience in the real estate industry, Brad specializes in…

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Carnival of Real Estate #86

Carnival of Real Estate #86

The 86th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at True Gotham.

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Carnival Of Real Estate #85

Carnival Of Real Estate #85

The 85th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at RealCentralVA.

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How to (Quickly) Compare Real Estate Markets?

How to (Quickly) Compare Real Estate Markets?

How does buying a home in Auburn, AL compare to the Auburn, WA real estate market? How does Queen Anne compare to Queens? In short, I haven’t found a good technology solution as of yet. I moved to Seattle a little over a year ago….

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Carnival Of Real Estate #84

Carnival Of Real Estate #84

The 84th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live at Hotpads Daily.

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What is your home's Walk Score?

What is your home's Walk Score?

For any agents out there working with buyers, especially for those that are looking to buy in the city, here is a great website to build the value of the area you are showing. It’s called WalkScore.com and it is a pretty cool site. Living…

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