This is Episode 1 of our new video series called “In the Nest” where we interview various personalities both inside and outside the real estate industry. In our first episode, we were privileged enough to secure an interview with Tara Hunt (AKA @missrogue) the night before her keynote at the REALTORS Conference & Expo in San Diego this last weekend.

We had the opportunity to sit down with her and ask her why she was chosen to speak at the conference [...]

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So I’m back from attending RE BarCamp San Diego and the 2009 REALTORS Conference & Expo in sunny San Diego. It was one of the best that I have ever attended from a content standpoint. The sessions were well thought out and the speakers were intelligent, insightful and some were even humorous ( Teresa Boardman AKA @tboard, this is targeted to you).

The Expo was a little smaller than in year’s past and there [...]

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The roller coaster that is the real estate market is on the upswing. Don’t think this is the Kingda Ka type of upswing but more like the Teeny Weeny type.

The Pending Home Sales Index from the National Association of Realtors (NAR) rose a paltry 0.1% during the month of May. A more impressive comparison was year-over-year where the index showed a 6.7% increase compared with May 2008. This was the first four-month percentage increase since way back in October of [...]

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Is it time to jump for joy or is this news a small silver lining to a still very dark cloud? That is the question of the day as NAR released their Pending Homes Sales Index.

For those of you not familiar with the Pending Homes Sales index, it is a forward-looking indicator for the housing sector, based on pending sales of existing homes. The index is based on contracts signed two months ago. These sales are listed as pending [...]

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