Real Estate Marketing & Beyond

Featured News, Vacation Properties

Aspen: Is It A Modern Day Berchtesgaden?

By Phil Butler | March 9, 2011

Featured News, Real Estate Investing

Hawaii and the Coming Commercial Boom - Well Maybe

By Phil Butler | March 7, 2011

Commercial real estate investment in Hawaii was very strong last year. Spending for hotels, shopping centers, and other attractive bargains was obviously in vogue as investors spent twice what they did the previous year.

Featured News, US Real Estate

Fannie Mae's Michael Williams: Clueless in San Diego

By Phil Butler | March 6, 2011

Fannie Mae President and CEO Michael J. Williams was at the University of San Diego at an annual discussion on the future of home lending. At the top of his agenda, the Obama Administration's plans to eliminate Fannie Mae altogether - but some side stepping was involved. However slippery Williams and other officials have become, it's clear lending may never be the same again.

Featured News, Residential

The Home Investment Dichotomy

By Joe Spake | March 4, 2011

We have been hammered with news stories over the past couple of years about the part of the American Dream that has to do with home ownership. Is home ownership still an aspiration, or is it just looked upon as another bad investment? Constant hype by the real estate industry, over decades, that homes are good INVESTMENTS, brought exhilaration in the real estate market as the investment factor drove it right up to the precipice, and malaise as the market tumbled down.

Featured News, US Real Estate

Here It Comes: Obama the Real Estate Broker

By Phil Butler | March 2, 2011

In news from Washington, President Obama evidently has plans to sell off Federal property to help consolidate and streamline government. The President's State of the Union address made mention of streamlining, but now it appears Obama has set to task recommendations on just which properties to sell. But just what "unwanted" properties, and just "whom" the buyers might be seem key to this initiative.

Featured News, Real Estate Investing

Allianz and Others Looks to Expand Portfolio Possibilities

By Phil Butler | March 1, 2011

In investment news from Europe, retail property looks like the next boom territory for investors on the continent. According to a recent Jones Lang LaSalle survey, retail investment in 2010 accounted for at least 28 percent of the total commercial property sector. And, Allianz Real Estate, a unit of German insurer Allianz SE, is actually broadcasting they intend investing €11 billion more.

Featured News, Real Estate Technology, Social Media

Are All Those People Really Your Friends?

By Joe Spake | February 28, 2011

Throughout history, from pre-language communications to the new social media, connection has been the catalyst for cultural evolution. Connection is about sharing ideas, but in 2011, when advertisers entice us to "like" them on FaceBook, and marketers measure their effectiveness by how many Twitter followers they can acquire, the quality of the connection has been eroded.

Featured News, Home Builders/Developer's

FHLBank San Francisco Gives $36.6M in Housing Grants

By Tavis J. Hampton | February 23, 2011

The Federal Home Loan Bank of San Francisco announced the second round of winners in its 2010 funding competition, awarding $36.6 million in Affordable Housing Program (AHP) grants. The grants will help fund 60 projects with affordable housing needs in Nevada, Illinois , Colorado, New Jersey, Washington, California, and Arizona. The projects will help create […]

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