Happy New Year!
After a two-week break, the
Carnival of Real Estate is back! And although many of us enjoyed time with family and friends over the holiday break, the blogging continued.
The Carnival received dozens of submissions over the past two weeks, and here are some of the best:
Posts summarizing 2006, and predicting 2007, took center-stage. Joshua Dorkin discusses
The 14 Coolest Real Estate Stories of 2006. Michael Simonsen from
Altos Research says that 2006 represented an online
real estate renaissance. Zillow's Spencer Rascoff does a great job summarizing some of the
biggest stories in 2006 as well.
As for 2007? Renthusiast discusses several predictions for 2007 at
Renthusiast. Joshua Dorkin discusses goal-setting for 2007 at
Real Estate Investing For Real A BiggerPockets Blog.
Do those 2007 goals already intimidate you? Matt Heinz reminds us that
Big Goals BeginWith Baby Steps at the
Matt on Marketing blog.
Ola Edvardsson discusses how to
achieve real estate marketing success this year. And Michael Price gives fantastic advice on how to be a
Famous Agent in 2007.
Are you doing too much blogging, and not enough selling? Jim Cronin discusses why your broker might hate your blogging on
Real Estate Tomato.
Cliff Jacobson wonders what the
role of real estate agents will be in a Web 2.0 world in his
WebHomeUSA blog.
Don't miss Pat Kitano's outstanding two part series on
Radical Transparency.
Douglas Heddings talks about what it means when
sellers remain high-demand clients in a buyer's market at
True Gotham.
David Recker discusses why
some home seekers still just don't get it.
Broker Bryant riffs about
compensation vs. performance on
ActiveRain.
Kris Berg does a great job
comparing dogs to real estate agents (in a good way) on the fantastic
Bloodhound Blog.
Nina at
QueerCents says that small homes are
about to become cool again.
And Dan Green talks about
Why New Home Sales Doesn't Tell The Story posted at
The Mortgage Reports Blog.
Submit your blog article to the next edition of carnival of real estate using the
carnival submission form. Past posts and future hosts can be found on the
blog carnival index page.