Triple Nickel Realty

Become a Top Real Estate Agent

Ken Shapiro — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:57:49 +0000

The Emotionally Intelligent Real Estate Agent

Author: Hendrie Weisinger, Ph.D.

Publication Date: 3/2012

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Become a top real estate agent by unlocking the essential “emotional intelligence tasks” that have helped thousands of other real estate agents”

Author, Dr. Hendrie Weisinger, is a world renowned psychologist and leading authority in the area of emotional intelligence. He has helped thousands of real estate agents achieve great success by teaching them the skills for applying their emotional intelligence. Now, you can get that “know-how” in his new book, Emotionally Intelligence Real Estate Agent.

Consider that real estate agents who are top producers use their emotions, moods, and feelings-and those of others-to work for them. They stay motivated in difficult times, bounce back quickly from setbacks, and increase their results-oriented behavior that increases their bottom line.

Now, you too can learn the skills that will help you:

Quickly gain the trust of prospects and clients
Stay focused and manage anxiety in turbulent times
Deal effectively with emotionally reactive clients
Turn se backs into comebacks
Enhance office relationships
Get more and better listings
Stay motivated for the long haul
Increase your bottom line

In this easy to read highly accessible short book, you will learn the nuts and bolts necessary to propel you to the top of your field. The book’s Blueprint for Applying Your Emotional Intelligence will integrate emotional intelligence into your daily activities and ensure your success!

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Miami-Ft. Lauderdale back in Top 10 Real Estate Markets

Ken Shapiro — Sat, 28 Apr 2012 16:49:29 +0000

Notes from Zilliow.com & Realtor.com

The top 10 markets

for home value appreciation during the first quarter of 2012 were mostly smaller markets like Johnson City, Tenn., and Lebanon, N.H. But two big metro areas that Zillow described as “poster children” for the housing downturn also made the list: Phoenix and Miami-Fort Lauderdale, Fla.

A combination of rising rents, low mortgage rates and bottoming-out home prices have Zillow’s analysts predicting that housing markets will scrape bottom by late 2012 or early 2013.

Zillow’s new rent index showed rents increasing in 70 percent of metros tracked from March 2011 to March 2012, compared with only 14 percent of the metros experiencing home-value appreciation in that same time period.

“When the bottom will hit will vary by market, and it’s nearly impossible to time a purchase exactly right,” Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries said in a statement. Rising mortgage rates could offset any further home value declines, Humphries noted.

Markets that Zillow thinks have already bottomed include Boston, Dallas, Denver, Miami, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Pittsburgh, St. Louis and Tampa. Zillow is forecasting that Baltimore, Los Angeles and San Jose will bottom this year.

But it’s harder to say what trends in Las Vegas, New York, Portland, Riverside and San Diego may portend.

Continuing a distressed-market turnaround trend, the Phoenix-Mesa, Ariz., metro took the No. 1 position on the list with a 23.5 percent jump from a year ago, to $179,000. The Miami metro made No. 2 on the list with a 22.27 percent list-price increase from a year ago, to $269,000. Both Phoenix and Miami were among the top 10 metros for year-over-year reductions in for-sale inventory, ranking No. 3 and No. 5, respectively

Foreclosed Home Sales Down

Ken Shapiro — Thu, 26 May 2011 19:44:50 +0000

Forclosed Home are getting harder to find……………

HOUSING TRENDS UPDATE

Ken Shapiro — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:10:44 +0000

November 2010
HOUSING TRENDS UPDATE

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Area Local Market Report, Third Quarter 2010

Ken Shapiro — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:09:00 +0000

TampaBay Market Report

REALTORS® Say Mortgage Interest Deduction Vital to Home Ownership, Economy

Ken Shapiro — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 17:56:05 +0000

December 1, 2010

WASHINGTON (December 1, 2010)—The following is a statement by National Association of REALTORS® President Ron Phipps.

“As the leading advocate for housing and home ownership issues, NAR firmly believes that the mortgage interest deduction (MID) is vital to the stability of the American housing market and economy.

“The MID must not be targeted for change. NAR is actively engaged on behalf of the nation’s 75 million home owners and 1.1 million REALTORS® to ensure that the current deduction is not modified as was recommended in the Deficit Reduction Commission report released today.

“The tax deductibility of interest paid on mortgages is a powerful incentive for home ownership and has been one of the simplest provisions in the federal tax code for more than 80 years. In a new survey commissioned by NAR and conducted online in October 2010 by Harris Interactive of nearly 3,000 home owners and renters, nearly three-fourths of home owners and two-thirds of renters said the mortgage interest deduction was extremely or very important to them.

“Recent progress has been made in bringing stability to the housing market and any changes to the MID now or in the future could critically erode home prices and the value of homes by as much as 15 percent, according to our research. This would negatively impact home ownership for millions of Americans, including those who own their homes outright and have no mortgage.

“Any further downward pressure on home prices will hamper the economic recovery, raise foreclosures, and hurt banks’ abilities to lend and likely tip the economy into another recession, resulting in further job losses for the country. It will effectively close the door on the American dream.

“NAR will remain vigilant in opposing any plan that modifies or excludes the deductibility of mortgage interest.”

Source: NAR

Read more: http://www.houselogic.com/news/articles/realtors-say-mortgage-interest-deduction-vital-home-ownership-economy/#ixzz17M68zJZw