by Shannon O'Brien | Feb 3, 2014 | Agent Spotlight, Real Estate Discussion
Although he’s been kicking around the real estate business for 13 years, Jerimiah Taylor, a Keller Williams recruiter and trainer, is just now hitting the decade mark as a licensed real estate salesperson. As he jets between his home base in San Diego and the site of...
by Shannon O'Brien | Jan 28, 2014 | Real Estate Discussion
One of the more interesting aspects of NAR’s Profile of Homebuyers and Sellers is what was hot, from a buyer’s perspective, in housing in 2013. Even more telling, at least for agents, is what they didn’t want in a home. The next time you sit down with a homebuyer to...
by Shannon O'Brien | Jan 20, 2014 | Agent Spotlight, Real Estate Discussion
A self-described “product of international migration,” Alan Donald inherited the itch to travel. The Keller Williams agent has visited, by last count, 41 countries and has lived in several of them. “My grandfather was from Scotland and migrated to Colombia in the...
by Andy Fulton | Jan 14, 2014 | Real Estate Discussion
Fact: Seven of the 10 NFL teams that have gone to the Super Bowl the most (five times or more) are from cities with HIGH median home prices, when compared to the average median home price of cities with NFL teams. Fact: Nine of the 13 NFL teams that have gone to the...
by Shannon O'Brien | Jan 13, 2014 | Real Estate Discussion
Low housing inventories and über-low interest rates combined to make the housing sector the economy’s comeback kid in 2013. Like a precarious stack of Jenga cubes, however, pull one leg out from under that delicate balance and the whole thing comes crashing down – or...
by Shannon O'Brien | Jan 2, 2014 | Real Estate Discussion
Just like brides and grooms can freak out and leave one another standing at the altar, those involved in a real estate transaction can also be guilty of jilting or – heaven forbid – at risk of being jilted. It’s called “cold feet” when you leave your...