This was announced last month and will appear in our December/January issue:
If consumers are the drivers when it comes to dictating content on a luxury real estate Web site, then Paul Boomsma is not unlike the guy in the passenger’s seat with the map providing the directions.
Two years after being named to spearhead the launch [...]
In the face of online home valuation sites such as Zillow, Eppraisal and Reply, Coldwell Banker Real Estate last week debuted its own Home Value Estimator — part of a new tool called Home Tracker. Coldwell Banker’s system is similar in that it uses recent comparable sales data to come up with a value range [...]
Allow us to toot our own horn for a second: Unique Homes is proud to be named as one of the top luxury blogs in the world by the Web site International Listings. Unique Homes is one of 12 real estate blogs named in the site’s list of the top 100 blogs. The list includes [...]
The Wall Street Journal reported this week that 65 percent of all houses priced at $8 million or more in central London were bought by people born outside the U.K. last year. Location, taxes and history all play a role, according to Monday’s article by Cassell Bryan-Low and Jeanne Whalen. This is a very well-written [...]
More news from Realogy today, and this is big: Starting July 1, a new real estate brand will be competing for your business. Realogy, which already owns CENTURY 21, Coldwell Banker and ERA (and licenses Sotheby’s International Realty), will license the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brand. The real estate giant announced today that [...]
Coldwell Banker last week released its 2007 Home Price Comparison Index, which once again showed that Beverly Hills is the most expensive market in the nation. The numbers show quite a disparity between Beverly Hills and the most affordable market, Killeen, Texas. These numbers are certainly worth taking a look at!!
http://www.realogy.com/media/pr/show_release.cfm?id=438
Realtor Magazine last week identified 10 cities that were projected by Business 2.0 Magazine to see substantial growth in median sales prices in the coming years. Note that three Texas locales are represented. You can find a great article on how Texas in bucking national trends in the Oct./Nov. issue of Unique Homes, due out [...]
Read an interesting article last week about the growth of the popularity of auctions. “According to the National Auctioneers Association, more than $16 billion of residential real estate was sold by auction in 2006, an increase of 12.5% over the previous year.” See the links below for more:
http://www.realestatejournal.com/buysell/markettrends/20070925-hoak.html?rejcontent=mail
http://www.auctioneers.org/core/contentmanager/uploads/PDFs/AuctionIndustryResults/2006IndustryResearchResults.pdf
