Real Estate Radio USA interviewed Louis Cammarosano and me last week to find out about our latest integration—Home Sale Maximizer with AgentView.

Listen to our radio segment to find out what Louis Cammarosano and I had to say and why Home Sale Maximizer is making headlines.

In case you are not familiar with Brooklyn New York, let me give you some of the facts…

• The estimated population of Brooklyn is approximately 2.6 million
• Also known as Kings County, Brooklyn is the 7th largest county in the U.S.
• Brooklyn covers approximately 71 square miles
• Brooklynites represent over 90 different ethnic groups, 140 nationalities, and speak over 130 different languages

Brooklyn truly is a melting pot and the market conditions and property values vary from neighborhood to neighborhood. On the high end of the Brooklyn market you have many areas that are still realizing appreciation in property values. These areas include Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Williamsburg and several other neighborhoods towards the northern tip of Brooklyn. There is always strong demand in these areas due to the easy commute to Manhattan (minutes via bus or subway). These areas offer much more bang for the buck when compared to prices in Manhattan.

On the flipside, there are other neighborhoods in Brooklyn that are hurting right now due to the mortgage crisis that has affected our entire country. Areas like Bushwick and East New York are experiencing foreclosures at record numbers while many homeowners are trying to negotiate short sales with their lender so as to salvage their credit ratings. Continue reading this post

We are pleased to announce the addition of another fine writer to the HomeGain Real Estate Blog, Eric Bramlett. Eric comes to us from Austin Texas where he is the broker of record and co-owner of One Source Realty.

Eric brings a special brand of commitment to his customers. From his website : “I will offer you the latest in Real Estate marketing, and I am available to my clients 24/7. I believe in the Austin Texas Real Estate Market and I am personally invested.”

Eric also writes on the Bloodhound Blog and maintains his own Austin centric blog.

We look forward to Eric’s first post! Continue reading this post

"It’s important to re-train, re-think, and respond in kind with the re-tooled knowledge and skills to practice real estate effectively in one of the most challenging times in our history."

My real estate broker/manager came to me recently to ask if I would speak to the sales group at our weekly staff meeting about some of the things I’ve been doing recently to account for the amount of sales production I’ve had in the first half of the year.

First, I would like to state upfront that I hate “boasting” or sounding like a hubristic boar (I’m a great man – in my own mind) and I am a firm believe that once you start getting a big head about how great you think you are, you stand to lose your focus and things can take a turn for the worse. Continue reading this post

Popular tool becomes part of AgentView

It seems every other day a newspaper reporter or blogger takes note of Home Sale Maximizer.

After getting the value of his home on HomeGain.com, Max finds out which home improvements to make before his home goes on the market, and contacts the featured Realtor to ask questions about his market.

Home Sale Maximizer is an online home improvement tool home on a HomeGain survey of over 2,000 real estate agents.

Home Sale Maximizer helps consumers calculate which home improvements will increase the resale values of their homes.

Last night we integrated Home Sale Maximizer into our popular AgentView product that features Realtor listings, blogs, profiles and other real estate content in an advertising-free environment. Continue reading this post