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Google Perspective Just in case you’re not sick of hearing news from Google, there’s more and this time it has a clear cut implication...
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Google Perspective Just in case you’re not sick of hearing news from Google, there’s more and this time it has a clear cut implication...
Oooh, fancy yellow sticker! Agents, how many times have you been in a home and been asked the energy star ratings of appliances or...
Oooh, googly goggles! Visual search introduced Today, Google revealed Google Goggles, an intuitive way to search in the real world, independent of a computer....
Rocky road for lender After several treacherous years in the mortgage industry, a shining example of how the subprime market crashed is New Century...
Bernanke expresses confidence In a speech this morning to the Economic Club of Washington, D.C., Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke discussed with the crowd...
Tracking trends Tracking trends is much more than just entertaining yourself, it is important to brands to track their impact in social networking. There...
What a coincidence Last month, Google announced “social search” and today announced “real time search,” both showing Google’s attempt to regain some of the...
What a state of affairs The recent Moody’s ResiLandscape issue points to the subprime crash “climbing” its way up the housing ladder by reviewing...
27% of Payments Are Late The Obama Administration’s Home Affordable Modification Plan which is a foreclosure prevention program which has been extended to 650,000...
Rough year for banks We all know it’s been a tough year for the economy and the falling dominoes of banks is just one...
Get on it, FHA! This week, Lend America was disqualified from lending FHA backed loans due to submitting false documents and completing loans that...
Did San Francisco or Lancaster win? Let’s see: This week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency named the winners of the 2009 National Award for...
If you practice real estate near a wind farm, you should know: With the increasing methods of alternative energy American cities are seeking out...
Ignoring articles on net neutrality? Don’t! I’ll admit, net neutrality seemed like a geeky nerd dork fight that I heard about a long time...
About time, Massachusetts This week, a law passed allowing homeowners in Massachusetts generating their own electricity (typically through solar panels) to sell back excess...
Is the AP Stylebook YOUR Bible? The Associated Press Stylebook is what the AP calls “the journalist’s bible” and for anyone who has ever...
Apps up, but why? Good news was released today by the Mortgage Banker’s Association that mortgage applications were up last week despite a dip...
GeoMeme- see Twitter trends in your ‘hood GeoMeme is a real time search for Twitter trends based on location. With Twitter’s new release of...
The numbers are in… Today, the U.S. Census Bureau released construction spending data for October 2009, revealing that the real estate sector dropped 14.4%...
Nine solid months = recovery? For the ninth month in a row, pending home sales are up, according to the National Association of Realtors....
A shot in the dark vs. a planned get together Rather than simply telling everyone, “I’m at Uncle Billy’s BBQ” in a tweet and...
The end of Lend America Independent mortgage originator, Lend America announced today that it would cease operations immediately. This came as a surprise to...
Twitteriffic “Twitter” was deemed the most popular word in the English language for 2009 by the Global Language Monitor with the top phrase being...
Short sales brightening up Today, the U.S. Treasury Department released their highly anticipated guidance on a plan for mortgage companies to expedite short sales...
Making modifications permanent This morning, we talked about President Obama’s plan to call lenders to the carpet and he along with the Treasury Department...