What is it going to take to make them happy? Did someone at the DoJ have an unsatisfactory experience with a real estate agent? Or is it simply that they know our approval ratings are down there with our Democrat led Congress (which would love to have even the dismal ratings of George W. Bush), so we are an easy target?
There is an interesting report called “Competition in the Real Estate Brokerage Industry” that is a pretty interesting read…
Since I am in the process of getting my new website together, I have been on the track of marketing and advertising. I know that good SEO will bring some folks in, but I also know that if I don’t market and advertise the site, it won’t get the traffic it needs.
So, that brings me to this…
I was up late, and caught a little bit of the Nightline episode where they featured a “bubble blogger” in California. One of the statements he made was that housing was not a good investment compared to the stock market over the last 30 years. That line was screaming at me.
I went to Google to try and find national average home appreciation rates for the last 30 years. I wasn’t able to. I was able to find the annualized appreciation for the last 10 years though. According to S&P (warning, pdf file), average annualized returns for homes were
I know, I know. It is one of those pervasive statements in real estate. Everyone in the business says it.
Buyers are liars.
But, are they really? I don’t think so. My buyers tell me
So, how many of you have heard of this? The X Prize.
Back when I wrote the A-Z series, it was my back up plan for the letter X. Currently, it doesn’t have much relevance to real estate, but one day it might.
The original X Prize was