I was sitting around the other day with a bunch of friends who had lived in my area for quite a while. I mentioned a funky and delicious restaurant I had checked out recently. They had never heard of it. And they were quite impressed with my local knowledge. This got me thinking about how […]
I read an interesting blog the other day from a real estate agent who held an open house. She met a nice young couple who toured the house and then came back and spoke with the agent. “Yeah, we Googled you,” they said, apparently happy with what they found. Googled you? Can Google get any […]
I thought about this the other day while I downloaded an app on my smartphone: There’s a major underlying shift taking place with consumers. Take iPhone apps for example. You might enjoy photography apps, someone else might like games, and someone else might prefer weight loss apps. The point is you don’t just get a […]
While there is always the usual amount of bad news going around, there was one major bit of great news recently that few people seemed to notice. And this bit of news has implications for anybody who owns a website: IBM just announced the launch of their Sequoia BlueGene Q supercomputer and its stature as […]
Have you ever watched Million Dollar Listing? It’s a show on the Bravo network where three 30-somethings sell real estate in Malibu and Hollywood. With their luxury cars, weird haircuts, and super-wealthy clients, this almost seems like a fantasy reality show. Their names are even trendy – Madison, Chad and Josh (what, no Biff?). I watched […]
Have you participated in a conversation lately and where someone asked, “Who was that guy who played in the movie (insert title here)? “You know who I’m talking about, the guy with the (insert unique character traits here).” After a few minutes of everyone wracking their brains, someone finally pulls out their smartphone and finds […]
There seems to be a bunch of very unique laws out there. I’m not talking about regulations against speeding or stealing. But laws concerning big ticket items — Newton’s Law of Universal Gravitation, or the Law of Large Numbers. There’s one law that everybody in the real estate profession should be familiar with: The Law […]
Remember all those years of geography you studied in grammar school and high school pouring over maps, globes and textbooks? Those classes certainly instilled in students a fascination with the world and distant lands. But underneath all those discussions about the Himalayas, the Great Wall in China and Machu Picchu in Peru, there is an […]
It makes sense that real estate would be booming in a city that never sleeps — NYC. Believe it or not, some experts say those insane housing prices in New York City are a bargain. Sure, they are high, but they are not hysterically high like in Tokyo or London or Paris. There are other […]
I was speaking with an acquaintance of mine the other day and was surprised to hear he recently moved to the other side of the country. “Yea, we like the schools here better. We were considering a private school where we lived before but thought it would smarter to just relocate.” 2,000 miles! That’s quite […]
As families gather in their homes for the holidays, if you are a real estate professional, you’ve got to have some feeling of pride knowing you found the right home for many of these families. Many times in our professional lives we get caught up in the numbers — how many sales, how many listings, […]
Everyone in business knows you don’t always get feedback from a satisfied customer. Many times they are just too busy. But when one of your clients refers to your product as “magic,” well, you just gotta listen. That’s what happened at Team X Real Estate in Los Angeles. Broker Emmanuel Xuereb wrote in his blog […]