Okay lets have fun with this on week 2! Can you believe it? I made it to week 2?
Look out E.L. James, (Fifty Shades of Grey, reference.)
Lets discuss the brass tax of where we seem to fall currently in the marketplace. After reading through Zillow, Trulia, and other sites I can see in this current quarter that listing prices are increasing in the Charlotte area and are averaging roughly $127 per sq. foot compared to $97 per sq. foot, 5 years ago; $121 per sq. foot a year ago and even $122 in the most recent quarter passed.
Zillow.Com- shows that home sales are up .3% in the past month and 1.4% in the last quarter with a 6% increase from last year at this time. Meaning home buyers and sellers are all finally starting to come out of our shell and to my real estate professionals- BE READY. We have all seen a slight increase in business and it seems that a lot of us anticipate to be so busy through the rest of this year, we may have to make sleep optional. ( I did this years ago.)
For my real estate partners, HOW do YOU anticipate getting the BUSINESS? Do you Skype, Blog, Facebook, Twitter, or put your profile on partner sites??? If not, you should and you better be! This new social media thing has taken over, it has grown to roughly 40% of the populations way of picking people that they ultimately do business with... How they search, who you are and how good you are or at least appear to be...
If the only thing they find on Google when they look you up is the Ancestory.com link and a close estimate range of your age... then I suggest you jump on it. Or someone who is willing to put the work in, WILL get your clients. Not just that, but a newbie. Someone who may not even know what a Jack and Jill is... Other than a fond childhood story book character. But with a smile and a bio page they are well on their way to obtaining and maintaining a stable real estate career. Which is what we are here blogging about.
We want you to be successful in this market and to grow your business exponentially. Because of that, we brought on a business development coordinator, (fondly known as Stacey in our office) that is set in place to help our real estate agent partners get up and running in this social media highway of life. She is your Mr. Miyagi and you can be her Daniel son.
Email her (Stacey.Duncan@MovementMortgage.Com) if you feel like you need a "little" help and she can meet with you on how The Green Team can be a value add as a strategic lending partner to you and your clients. Not to mention, when volume picks up- it NEVER hurts to tell them your preferred lender has the ability and goal to close in 7 days...
Salutations All,
T.C. Green
"Leading you home"
Attributing Links to Market Data:
http://www.zillow.com/local-info/#metric=mt%3D34%26dt%3D1%26tp%3D5%26rt%3D14%26r%3D102001%252C394913%252C394458%26el%3D0
http://www.trulia.com/real_estate/Charlotte-North_Carolina/
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