Melbourne and Brevard County Florida Real Estate Market Update

Mitch Ribak of Tropical Realty of Suntree, Florida provides mid-year update

Mid-year Brevard County Real Estate Internet Marketing Numbers are in!

Well it’s been a crazy year so far here in Melbourne, Florida and my real estate agents have been as busy as ever. Even though the real estate market is terrible here in Brevard County, Florida, Tropical Realty of Suntree is holding its own and is neck and neck with two other companies for first place in total closed transactions.

As most you out there, I’m sure you are showing a ton of customers just to get one home buyer. They are certainly taking their time making their home buying decisions. Where are those old glory days?!

Since I’m always talking about Internet Marketing, Lead Capture and Lead Conversion, I figured I would share with you our stats for the first half of the year. There are two reasons I want to share this info.

Firstly, I am proud as a father of my Agents and my staff (my kids). They have worked their tails off this year to keep their careers in line. They don’t want to hear about a bad market, they are making the best out of it. In fact, we wrote 35 homes for sale contracts this month which is a new record since our opening in 2005!

Secondly, I want you all to see the possibilities of what happens when you really dedicate your business to Internet Marketing. And yes, HomeGain’s Buyerlink program is a big piece of our success. Gone are the days where I spend two hours each day managing my keywords. So thanks to my awesome Agents and thanks to HomeGain for having the BuyerLink program!

Ok so here is what we got: read more

Posted by Mitch Ribak on Jul 03, 2008 under Regional

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Holding Real Estate Deals Together: Earning Our Keep

This week has been a week of baling wire and duct tape trying to keep deals together. Patience! Oh, what a wonderful virtue.

Patience to deal with the shifting numbers that inch closer to Yes!, patience with personalities that run the gamut of kind and understanding to rude and arrogant, patience with real estate agents who are slow to respond, patience with lenders who change the rules at a drop of the hat, patience with attorneys who hire temps, patience with sellers who think their homes are made of gold—why do we do this?

Because that is what we are paid to do, have patience and keep deals together.

For all the do-it-your-self home buyers and sellers doing it themselves for the first time—BEWARE! there are dangers ahead.

How can deals go south? Financing problems, cold feet, inspection problems, newly disclosed information, buyer buys a Harley before closing, on and on and on, but we must have patience.

Take a deep breath and look at the situation—break it down—then look for a solution.

Sometimes the situation calls for a little read more

Posted by Mike Farmer on May 25, 2008 under Realtor

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Win Clients Through Perseverance and Customer Service – And Get Full Service Commission

Mary Lou Skowronski is a real estate agent in Southern California with Coldwell Banker Platinum Properties.

She’s been a HomeGain Source4Sellers agent for a few years now. She told me a great story about how she came about working with a new client – a client which was a lead that she received through Source4Sellers, and was able to lock up 3 TRANSACTIONS out of one initial lead – through perseverance, patience and good customer service.

For the past years she’s been committed to investing in marketing and lead generating systems and felt that it would be a long time commitment in order to prove positive results.

When she signed up for Source4Sellers in 2005, she felt like it would be the best shot in the arm that she could get, to reinforce her belief in Internet marketing and client prospecting.

With the efficient use of technology, she is able to market globally on the Internet, to successfully reach home buyers and promote home sellers properties. She feels that working online saves her clients time and money and it enables her to earn a full service commission.

Even in the more challenging situations when it looks like the odds are against you … which brings me to Mary Lou’s story: read more

Posted by Jessica Gopalakrishnan on Mar 29, 2008 under Success Stories, Source4Sellers

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Six Million And Counting

Today we announced in a press release that HomeGain.com received more than 6MM website visits last month, making us the second most visited real estate website to start off the year, according to Hitwise.

We attribute this number to our recently redesigned website and access to tools that allow visitors to:

• Get instant estimates of homes values and connect with Source4Sellers™ real estate agents to receive information regarding the home selling process
• Find and compare Realtors using AgentEvaluator™
• View MLS listings displayed by thousands of BuyerLink™ real estate agents and brokers
• Determine the best home improvements with Home Sale Maximizer™

Let’s not forget the latest HomeGain resource, this real estate blog, as well.

On the press release Louis commented: “We are pleased to announce the launch of our guest blogger program that brings to HomeGain some of the best real estate bloggers in the country. To date we have featured read more

Posted by Jessica Gopalakrishnan on Feb 11, 2008 under HomeGain

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