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How to Make Money as a Real Estate Agent: 9 Strategies to Earn More

The Close

These ads direct potential sellers to Market Leader’s landing page and potential buyers to your personally branded, IDX search-enabled site. Ben Caballero , the most successful real estate agent in the world in terms of closed sales for the last decade, works exclusively with developers on new construction projects.

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Is the Housing Market in a Bubble? How the Indicators Today Compare With the Great Recession

Realtor.com

This time around, there isn’t a glut of available housing, the subprime loans that got so many homebuyers in trouble in the mid-2000s have largely been eliminated, and millions of Americans aren’t likely to lose their homes to short sales and foreclosures. Just three years later, sales bottomed out at 4.11

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Existing home sales fell in June while monthly median sales price spiked

Housing Wire

The good news is that the housing recession that was predicted by some economists has not materialized, noted Lisa Sturtevant, chief economist for Bright MLS. With positive inflation news and a strong labor market, the possibility that the Fed will be able to bring the economy in for a “soft landing” is improving.

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How Smart Investors Decipher & Respond to Real Estate Market Cycles

The Close

Further out, suburban areas begin to lose value as homebuilders continue to overbuild because new construction timelines are longer. Builders experience an increase in failed sales due to move-up purchasers not being able to sell their existing homes. Preforeclosure and short sales are more common.

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Seller’s vs. Buyer’s Market: A Seller’s Guide to Decoding Market Conditions

HomeLight

A strong economy, reticent home sellers, and lagging new construction all contribute to a seller’s market. Too few resale homes for sale. And as the population increases, so does the need for new housing. These factors can swing the market away from a seller’s favor: Surplus of resale homes and new builds.

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Miami Real Estate Posts 10th-Highest Total Home Sales Month in History

Realty Biz

The mortgage rate is projected to land at 5.3% The total economic impact of a typical Florida home sale is $112,500, according to NAR. Miami Distressed Sales Keep Dropping, Reflecting Healthy Market Only 1.2% In 2009, distressed sales comprised 70% of Miami sales. Short sales and REOs accounted for 0.5%

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How to Get Listings: 18 Luxury Listing Agents Spill Their Secrets

The Close

A top 2% agent companywide at Douglas Elliman and ranked as one of the top teams in the US by Real Trends, Laura Cao and her team consistently list and sell high-end Manhattan luxury new developments and resales. I was living on the Upper West Side when I got my first sale listing at 120 Riverside Blvd., #16J Hone Your Elevator Pitch.

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