Archive for November, 2007

Home prices continue to fall

While Chicago home prices don’t seem to be affected much by the continuing price decreasing that we see throughought the country, it is still obvious that the housing market continues to be unfavorable to people looking to sell their property.
The median single-family house price in the United States fell to $220,800, which was down […]

Foreclousures: How to save your home

A few months ago, we wrote an article on how to save your home if you are in a foreclosure situation. The article had a great impact at that time since the economy was shaking at the latest reports on foreclosure numbers. Yesterday, I was browsing the Money CNN section and I came across an […]

Real Estate Agents are increasing their fees

During the housing boom, home sellers were in the driver’s seat with real estate agents circling around their property and they were offered very low commission rates. These times seem to be old gone and the roles have changed a bit.
According to Steve Murray of Real Trend, the average commission rate in 1991 […]

Slow market? Turn to technology

As homes stay on the market longer and longer, with more and more of them for buyers to choose from, a growing number of agents aren’t merely getting property details into the Realtor multiple-listing system and hoping for the best. All the technological advances made during the housing boom years - when […]

Create flyers on Facebook

Facebook recently added the ability for anyone to create flyers which is accessible under the advertise link at the bottom of any Facebook page. After creating the flyer, the first thing anyone should do is to check out the cost per impression(CPM). Basically, your flyer gets serverd up in the inventory for the targeted […]

Trulia comes to help the realtors

Trulia really didn’t show much love to the realtors. Instead the brokers receive most of the attention and tools to market their business. Trulia had offered very little marketing tools to the real estate agents, of course, Trulia Voices is a wonderful way to communicate with potential buyers or sellers but most of the people […]