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Consumers are expected to rein in their spending habits as the job market softens and the real estate market cools, according to a TD report.
The report suggests spending growth will pull back from above five per cent in 2008 to 2.6 per cent in 2009 in year-over-year comparisons. 'Households have been spending almost like drunken sailors over the past couple of years, which provided critical
 
Hypo Real Estate, Depfa entities downgraded - S&P
MUMBAI (Thomson Financial) - Standard & Poor's Ratings Services lowered its long- and short-term counterparty credit ratings on three members of the Germany-based Hypo Real Estate group (HRE) by one notch, following a review of HRE's profitability
 
Real Estate Agent Training Online Summer School
Professionals Now Have an Opportunity to Improve their Career and Skills Many agents are seeing their 2008 production sink like the rest of the real estate and overall business markets. Now they don?t have to let the tough market drive them down or
 
Real Estate Roundup: West Linn developer buys Willamette Christian church site
Willamette Christian Church of West Linn has sold a portion of its property to a local developer.The $3.05 million sale involves 2.67 acres of prime retail land as well as three single family homes and a 12,000-square-foot administrative structure. The
 
International Real Estate Federation Supports GHF Plan to Expand Micro Mortgage Initiative
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Best Real Estate Promotions
BusinessWeek editors Peter Coy, Dean Foust, Chris Palmeri and Prashant Gopal chronicle the highs and lows of the housing and mortgage markets on their Hot Property blog. In print and online, the Hot Property team first wrote about the potential downside
 
Low sales for prime commercial real estate
Office and retail space that once attracted top dollar have suffered from plummeting buyer interest, with sales down 60 percent for the first half of the year, according to figures released by commercial real estate agents CBRE. Listed property trusts
 
International Real Estate Federation Supports GHF Plan to Expand Micro Mortgage Initiative
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Some Great Real Estate Advice
Most people are usually too busy making money, to make money.One fellow was buying paper at a discount and then renegotiating or reselling for very sweet margins. Mind you I did not see their face so their voice is what took me in and my mind was left to create whatever pictures I wanted. I was taken by this chaps youthful voice and based on his home location,I imagined him a sun tanned sail boating type. The other fellow had a distinguished voice that signified a lifetime of experience at making money.
 
Video Marketing Just Got Easier (A Little Bit)
Video is one of the most misunderstood aspects in marketing real estate today. This is because of the perception that video requires Commercial quality production in order to be effective. Nothing could be further than the truth. For the purposes...
 
MLS.Trulia.com
More Trulia and MLS Related Links: Trulia Battering (I link here for the Trulia controversy. I do not support the uninformed postulating on SEO which is a conglomeration of ideas that are for the most part poorly formed opinions by many-not all- who simply do not not know a page rank from a link, from a nofollow to a dofollow and their purposes. This bullet falls under my category above called partially valuable. But the problem with that is the poor blokes who will base their whole online marketing strategy on some BS that somebody wrote who wants to sound smart because they got a mildly competitve word ranked. Word of advice: do not base your marketing on something you got off a comment or even a blog post or article. This falls under the whole notion of free advice. If you do not pay someone, then there is no acocuntability, thus it is worth what you paid for it, NOTHING.And a low budget is no excuse for delusions of grandeur caused by an orgy of free information available on the internet.) How Do You Compete With HomeGain and Trulia? ERA Real Estate Feed Trulia The Great Realtor Giveaway Universal MLS MLS.Google.com Microsoft and the Loss of the MLS Real Estate MLS gone
 
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