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Consumer confidence improved in November, rising 15 points and reaching its highest level since July. With consumers’ view of business conditions perking up, and their opinion on job conditions brightening, positivity seeps into what has been a fairly negative past…

RISMEDIA, October 9, 2010–”Our definition of market domination is ‘the art of creating a controlling influence in a targeted marketplace,’” says Steve Hundley, CEO of 1parkplace, Inc., a technology provider to the real estate industry. “This means that market domination revolves around connecting with your community. It is much more than fancy technology or your picture on shopping carriages. It means you have to have a plan to create a controlling influence with the right information introduced…

RISMEDIA, August 27, 2010—(MCT)—Everywhere you look, July was not ideal for real estate—that’s one thing on which the economists and the statistics agree. Sales figures released recently for the first month in 19, not invigorated by government tax credits, offered a poor prognosis for the housing sector.

Nationally, sales of previously owned homes plunged 25.5% from July 2009—numbers the National Association of Realtors said had not been so low since 1999. Single-family home sales were at their lowest since May…

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The percentage of short sale transactions this year over last has risen several hundred percent. I don’t care what market you are in, or what role in a real estate transaction you manage, you will be involved in a short sale this year. Not only that, but you will encounter a short sale that is being processed through the Equator.com system. With now over “55,000 short sales initiated through Equator per month”, according to Chris Saitta the…