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07/28/2006 Adopt technology, new language for real estate survival
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(This is Part 2 of a three-part series.)
Will you successfully navigate the increasingly rapid rate of change in our industry or will your real estate career die a "slow death"?
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07/27/2006 Tech heads meet for real estate
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SAN FRANCISCO -- "Tech Will Conquer Real Estate" was the title of the opening address at a gathering of real estate software developers and technology gurus here Wednesday.
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07/27/2006 Housing slowdown takes pressure off mortgage rates
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Mortgage rates dropped this week as markets bet the Fed would soon pause its interest-rate hikes amid modest economic growth and declining home sales, according to surveys conducted by Freddie Mac and Bankrate.com.
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07/27/2006 SoCal MLS implements Clareity's security system
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Clareity Security on Wednesday announced the successful implementation of the SAFEMLS solution for the Southern California MLS.
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07/27/2006 New media pioneers say give the public what it wants -- information
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SAN FRANCISCO -- Pioneers in new media have some advice for real estate professionals coping with change: Use, don't fear, the public's voracious appetite for information acquired and shared over the Internet.
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07/27/2006 Zillow 'humbled' by real estate industry
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SAN FRANCISCO -- The creators of online home-valuation service Zillow learned the same lesson that many innovators and entrepreneurs before them have learned: real estate is difficult, it's local and it's not the travel industry.
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07/27/2006 Internet is overvalued, says RE/MAX founder
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SAN FRANCISCO -- When RE/MAX International founder and chairman David Liniger entered the real estate business, technology was an IBM electric typewriter with a self-correcting ribbon. And consumer access to property listings was a printed multiple listing service book -- intended for agents only -- that agents occasionally lent out to clients.
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07/27/2006 New-home sales fall 11%
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Sales of new single-family houses in June were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1.13 million, down 3 percent from the previous month and down 11 percent from a year ago, according to estimates released jointly today by the U.S. Census Bureau and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
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07/27/2006 Realogy joins S&P 500 Index
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Realogy Corp., which is expected to be spun off from Cendant Corp. on Monday, announced that its stock will become a member of the Standard & Poor's 500 Index upon expected commencement Aug. 1 of "regular way" trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
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07/27/2006 OnBoard LLC releases home-value estimator
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SAN FRANCISCO -- OnBoard LLC, a real estate data provider, has released a new home-value estimator tool for real estate brokers to offer to online consumers.
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