Real estate in your market area is affected by influences outside of your own region. For example, when I sold real estate in Portland, Oregon, what was happening in terms of inventory, appreciation, and activity in Seattle, Washington had an effect on my own marketplace. The two metropolitan areas are less than 200 miles apart, and one influences the other due to the easy and frequent population movement between the two cities.

I would like to share with you the fantastic afternoon I had this last Saturday. My wife and I had the privilege of being invited to the two hour Saddleback Civil Forum with Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. This was the first time these two presidential hopefuls, and expected nominees for the Democratic and Republican Parties, shared a public stage.

New real estate wiki for real estate industry is launched. 
History of wikis in real estate
BiggerPockets (launched in 2006) claims to be the first real estate wiki but it unfortunately closed down in May 2007 due to lack of sufficient content.  Introduced shortly therafter, and still going strong, is InmanWiki (part of InmanNews, InmanTV and InmanBlog).  
Origins of wikisWikiWikiWeb was the first site to be called a wiki. It was started by Ward Cunningham in 1994 and was based on the name of the Honolulu International Airport shuttle called “Wiki-Wiki” … in Hawaiian that …

Every year the RealSure team surveys the residential industry, seeks out any changes, analyzes new business models, interview hundreds of industry leaders, researches and reads thousands of articles and send out tens of surveys. Well the survey is currently underway and your opinions and comments will help provide a more accurate assessment of certain paradigm shifts that are currently occurring in the real estate industry.

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Os-trich: 1.a. A large, swift-running flightless bird of Africa, characterized by a long bare neck, small head, and two-toed feet.“? It is the larget living bird. b. A rhea 2. one who tries to avoid disagreeable situations by refusing to face them.“? (Webster’s dictionary)

What does diversity have to do with an ostrich?“? Well after reading the definition you might have thought to yourself”"‘guess maybe I am an ostrich when it comes to diversity issues.”“?

As a result of the unprecedented rise in housing prices during the last five years it seems the nation has become cautious anticipating the predicted housing bubble to burst. Although there is no doubt that the market has cooled, the latest numbers announced this week by the National Association of Realtors, the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, seems to indicate that …