POWER BROKER Report Archives

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Location is Everything ... Even with Interest Rates With the economic recovery in full swing, there has been a lot of talk lately about interest rates and the possibility that an increase could be coming in the near future. This is a classic good news/bad news scenario: On the one hand, people are going back to work and companies are...	2013-08-20
Big Opportunity: The Relocation Renter It’s no secret in the corporate relocation world that homeowner moves have become much scarcer. That’s a troubling reality for businesses that had come to depend on real estate commissions and referral fees generated by these prime customers and their...	2013-07-15
Market Insider: How Long Will this Housing Shortage Last? Home prices have risen at a double-digit rate since early spring. The Case-Shiller reading was up 11 percent in March compared to a year earlier, while the NAR median price was higher by roughly the same amount in April. This robust appreciation appears nearly certain to last for the...	2013-07-15
Content is King: How to Win the Battle against Portals It’s hard to deny that the giant real estate portals are doing more than simply holding their own when it comes to branding and attracting Web traffic to their sites. They attract the lion’s share of real estate traffic, and typically have bigger advertising budgets and...	2013-07-12
New Construction: Solving the Move-up Buyer Dilemma While Helen Hanna Casey “literally grew up around the new-homes business,” she is quite clear that today’s new-home market is not like the one her father was a part of in the 1950s when he was executive director of the Builders Association prior to starting Howard...	2013-07-12
How to Turn Your Client's IRA into a Transaction My IRA has three bedrooms, a kitchen and a garage. Best of all, it sends me a tax deferred rent check every month. Just think of the sales you could generate if your clients invested in real estate with their retirement accounts. Today, investing in single-family rentals is no longer...	2013-07-12
Mortgage Rates Hit a 2-Year High Mortgage rates rebounded following a better-than-expected jobs report, with the benchmark 30-year fixed mortgage rate rising to 4.66 percent, according to last week’s Bankrate.com national survey. The average 30-year fixed mortgage has an average of 0.28 discount and origination...	2013-07-12
Not Enough Time to Hire, Train and Retain Employees Three out of five employees would leave their current position for a competitive offer, according to the recent Recruit or Retain Report from staffing firm Aerotek® Inc. That's concerning news for hiring decision makers who are facing 3.8 million open jobs. While the survey...	2013-07-12
5 Mobile Finance Trends on the Rise in 2013 The world's Internet denizens are increasingly embracing mobile computing. It's not hype. A growing body of evidence supports the notion that the mobile web will free us from the constraints of the desktop. As more of our everyday online experiences – email, banking,...	2013-07-12
Mortgage and Bankcard Originations Experience Double-Digit Growth Providing further evidence of economic recovery throughout the nation, an Experian trends analysis of new mortgages and bankcards from Q1 2013 showed a 16 percent, year-over-year increase in mortgage origination volume and a 20 percent increase in bankcard limits. Other...	2013-06-14
Why You Should Work with Buyers from China...and How One of the hottest trends in American real estate right now isn’t coming from America. It’s the millions of new Chinese buyers that are investing in residential properties here in the USA. They’re wealthy. They’re motivated. And they’re very savvy when it...	2013-06-13
Power Broker Strategies: Retraining for the New, New-Home Market While real estate’s recovery is good news in and of itself, the revival of the market is yielding many key opportunities, such as new-home sales. With inventory lagging and buyer demand increasing, builders are back in business. However, the new-home market of today is not the...	2013-06-13
Survey: Investors Plan to Reduce Purchases, Hold Rentals Real estate investors are responding to higher prices by buying fewer properties in the next 12 months and holding their rental properties at least five years or longer, according to a national survey of real estate investors conducted by ORC International for MemphisInvest.com and...	2013-06-13
Power Broker Strategies: How to Ramp up Agent Productivity The key to getting the most out of your agents is to first realize that no two agents are alike. Then, take away all the typical excuses. This approach has paid dividends for Pennyslvania-based brokerage leader, Tom Skiffington, who relies on technology-driven systems and segmented...	2013-06-13
Corporate Mobility Policies: Can They Generate Business Opportunities for You? While relocation policy support activities may never become your core service, they could become a revenue-generating adjunct business-to-business offering provided on an hourly or project basis. If you work with transferees, you know mobility policies are the foundation of...	2013-06-13
UCLA Anderson Forecast: National Economy Falls Short, But Job Growth in California In its second quarterly report of 2013, the UCLA Anderson Forecast's outlook for the United States says that despite "improvement in both GDP and key economic sectors, the overall growth falls short of the rates required for the national economy to truly recover from the most...	2013-06-13
4 Reasons Why You're Losing Leads U.S. businesses spend billions of dollars generating sales leads only to lose more than 70 percent of them simply because they don’t make contact quickly enough, according to one study. But that’s not the only way they’re losing out on opportunities, says Brandon...	2013-06-13
Confronting Inventory Shortage, Brokers Get Creative...and a Little Aggressive With the current shortage of inventory across the nation, many real estate brokers are facing a challenge they haven’t dealt with in a long time. In today’s market, it’s no longer about getting buyers to buy—it’s about getting homes on the market in the...	2013-05-05
Remaining Relevant in an Online Real Estate Market For many brokers and agents, worry is mounting that popular real estate listing portals such as Zillow and Trulia will do to the real estate business what Expedia did to travel agents—that is, make their business model and role obsolete. The fear that keeps some brokers up at...	2013-05-05
How to Maximize Opportunities in New-Home Sales With more than 25 years in the business, David Schoner is recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts in new-home sales and marketing. As the previous owner of Schoner Research and the New Jersey New Homes Guide, he’s worked for the past 17 years as vice president,...	2013-05-05

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