Crescent Communities identified the hottest new home trends expected for 2009 after compiling information from buyers and prospects in all its Charlotte-area luxury communities.
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Crescent Communities Releases Hottest Home-Building Trends for 2009
You’ve heard the news that pending sales are up across the country over 7 percent from July to August. While that’s the broad brush news, when looking at the details, one sees just how many states in the West are experiencing a huge surge in the number of sales being registered on real estate boards across the region.
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Hot Market: Buyers Go West for Good Deals
We often hear about trends in home design and efficiency, but what about trends in garage spaces? For many homeowners that’s a space that is often neglected. But if you’re in the market to sell your home, you should get familiar with what buyers are looking for these days in garages.
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Trends in Garage Space
When times are good, bad habits can develop, like reaching only for low hanging fruit. When times are tough, these bad habits can undermine your business. Learn to work every lead, without exception: Pick the whole tree.
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Pick the Whole Tree by Never Prejudging Leads
“What the mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
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Seven Lessons of Sales Success
[Note: To follow is an excerpt of an interview with Dr. Matthew B. James, inspirational trainer, whose passion is teaching and living the path of Huna, the ancient science of consciousness and energy healing of the Hawaiian Islands. To listen to, or download the show archive MP3, go to www.IncomePropertyInvestmentTalk.com/082008.]
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Huna’ Can Help Create and Demonstrate Balance and Power in Your Life for Maximum Investment Returns
Most real estate trends are a reaction to the law of supply and demand. As you project trends, study your market analysis for hints of changes in your market s inventory. At the same time, study your region s economic growth and stability for hints at what is taking place to influence consumer demand.
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Projecting Trends And Putting Your Findings To Work
In the face of falling employment rates and diving real estate prices, Decatur, Illinois, has outperformed national trends to create a strong housing market buoyed by a growing economy. The labor force in America’s Agribusiness Center has grown by more than 1,500 jobs since January 2008, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, and that has fueled an increase in sales prices for single-family homes in the area by more than 6 percent for the same period last year.
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Hot Market: Decatur, IL Outperforms National Trends
Most of the learning we do in life is from observed behavior. This observed behavior happens in all environments from work to home. A few months ago, my wife, Joan, came to me because of observed behavior that Wesley, my five-year-old son, picked up. Joan was driving home from errands with Wesley in the car. She was following slow moving cars in front of her, and Wesley asked her why she was going so slow. Joan told him she couldn’t go any faster because there was a car in from of her. Wesley asked her, “Why don’t you just honk the horn; that’s what Daddy does.” I was busted! In Wesley’s mind, due to observation, he learned that a slow moving car means you should honk the horn.
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Accomplish Team Training: Monkey See, Monkey Do
In a real estate world of turbulent sales data, when a market presents itself as stable and growing, that’s something to talk about. San Angelo, Texas, with nearly 85,000 residents, is one of those markets.
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Hot Market: San Angelo, Texas — Quiet But Confident
In this competitive housing market it’s important to be inventive when it comes to showing your house.
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Real Estate Matchmaking
More than two-thirds of Canadian households own their home, the highest rate of homeownership since the government started keeping track of that information.
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Canadian Census Highlights Homeownership Trends
Every troubled real estate market offers opportunities for investors who can recognize them - and who have the cash and experience to capitalize on them.
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Investor Report: New Private Fund
If you are a home buyer who is dependent on a good interest rate to qualify for a home, or you’re a homeowner considering refinancing to lower your interest rate, or you’re a Realtor working with buyers, you might consider locking in your mortgage interest rate while they’re still below or at 6.00 percent for a 30-year fixed rate.
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Realty Viewpoint: Enjoy Those Mortgage Interest Rates While You Can
Flooring can be one of the easiest ways to give your home a new and improved look. But it can be expensive, which is why it’s important to choose wisely so that you don’t get stuck with something you’ll soon rip out.
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Floored By Old Decor? Step It Up With These Hot Trends!
