This week saw the announcement that Amazon had partnered with veteran residential real estate brand holding company Realogy. That means Amazon is getting into real estate, or are they? Based on the press, it looks more like Amazon is using it’s platform to get more of their products into the homes of current Amazon fans. […]
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I’ve been writing a residential real estate blog for about a year. There have been some great blogs, and there have been some blogs where I cringe when I read them now. Within the real estate space, there are many reasons to blog. I think I will save that for another post by itself, but
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Earlier this week, the national real estate brokerage Redfin made headlines as they’ve announced you can now buy a house without a buyer’s agent. Brilliant, you say? Did you know you can buy a home without a buyer’s agent right now without the help of Redfin or anyone else? There’s no requirement that you work
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As I was heading down Watson the other day, I couldn’t help but notice the “store closing” signs around Johnny Mac’s. And, they’ve announced they will close soon. It’s a shame but we all know that change is inevitable and it’s just time. I can remember visiting the Watson store in Sunset Hills when I
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I’ll be back showing houses next week. The time I’ve been out has allowed me to reflect on where I think things are and where I need them to be in the future. We’ve come a long way in a short amount of time, but we can always improve. One of the things we have
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For the last five years running, homes in St. Louis County have been selling for increasingly higher prices, according to John Schink of Deerwood Realty. The average sale price in for a single family home 2014 was $210,323, followed by averages of $219,121 in 2015, $223,503 in 2016, $231,060 in 2017, and $245,041 in 2018.
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I saw an article the other day about the real estate industry that really caught my eye. It was about a lawsuit that was filed against Realtors, and the information it contained was just totally wrong. I don’t think it was intentional, but if this sort of thing is happening in other industries, we are
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I was driving down Lindbergh the other day and I noticed a real estate brokerage that had been there forever suddenly wasn’t there anymore. It was kind of a surprise to me, because I’d been in that office before. It was really nice, with a large area in the front to meet with potential clients,
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Joe Girard passed away at age 90 on February 28,2019. I suspect that a lot of you reading this have no idea who Joe Girard is, and that’s OK. He held the Guinness Book of World Records for most car sales in one year (1,425). I didn’t know him personally, only through one of his
It seems like when you work in the real estate field, you are bombarded with real estate news. Half of the email in my inbox every day is real estate news. I wanted to share with you how one real estate agent in St. Louis approaches real estate news because I think you might be
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