• It’s a great time to flip houses in many of the markets across the country. Inventories are lean and prices are going up fast. Flipping a house fast means having what buyers are looking for. Having what buyers are looking for means having a sparkling remodeled house at market price. Getting to market price means accurately estimating the cost of the rehab.

    Estimating Rehab Costs in 30 Minutes or Less
  • Century 21 Team Feltrim, central Florida’s leading real estate brokerage and full property management company, has announced an expansion of its agent base with three new hires, on the back of positive sales in the last quarter. Joining the team at Century 21 Team Feltrim are Troy B. Love Sr., Sean Coyne and Kadie Webber.

    Century 21 Team Feltrim Adds New Agents as Florida Real Estate Heats Up
  • Buying a home is a landmark event for most individuals and families. It’s easy to find the listings and ogle over beautiful rooms and imagine your family playing in the fenced in backyard. But before you start packing your boxes in your rental, make sure that you’re prepared for the realities of all that goes into buying a home.

    Looking to Buy a Home? Read This First
  • The great American Dream of home ownership is far from dead, but a majority of those who want to become first-time buyers are concerned that they won’t be able to see their dreams become a reality. The reason? Because most renters believe they’ll never be able to qualify for a mortgage given today’s strict underwriting standards, according to a recent Fannie Mae survey.

    90% of Renters Want to Buy Homes, But Fear Tight Lending Standards
  • Today, there are two reliable ways to make good money investing in real estate. Flipping houses and renting houses. You need to know how to do both and which one is best for today’s marketplace.

    Positive Cash Flow Without the Hassles of Landlording
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How To Add Infographics To Your Real Estate Website

When building a real estate website, including things like content, photos, and even videos is of course the bare essentials if you really want to drive traffic and keep home buyers on your site. But what else can you do to dress up your site and provide for an even better user experience that will not only keep home buyers on your site for the time being, but keep them coming back down the road?

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Poplar Launches Online Network for the Green Building Community

Poplar recently launched an online network for the green building professional community. It is the company’s mission to connect to green building professionals around the globe, to deliver the highest quality green building education, and to help its members recognize new job opportunities.

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A List of 10 Obscure Social Websites You Likely Don’t Use

Nearly every website or webpage on the internet today gives users the ability to share its content, photos or videos on social media websites. But if you’re like me, perhaps you’ve always been curious about what some of these sites are and who exactly uses each one. Most of us waste enough time on Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest as it is, so who really has the time to update even just a few more social media sites, let alone a few dozen?

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The Problem of Real Estate Domain Clustering

Domain clustering is generally referring to multiple search results yielding the same domain, which can often result in poor search quality, especially if that domain is a bad website. In the real estate world, we most often see domain clustering from the heavy hitters in the industry like Trulia, Zillow, and Realtor.com.

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Real Estate Marketing Insider Announces Thoughts on Pinterest

The Real Estate Marketing Insider recently announced its thoughts on the use of Pinterest and its potential as part of a marketing plan for real estate firms and agents.

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Tablet Sales Still Soaring & Responsive Design No Longer Optional

Nearly everyone is viewing real estate online these days. The staggering statistics that show over 95% of home buyers now begin their home search somewhere on the internet have all been well-documented and written about by web marketing professionals for quite some time now, but what really continues to be gaining more and more momentum in the world of ever-changing web technology is the progression of responsive design real estate websites.