February 2015 - USHUD Real Estate News and Trends

Home » Archives for February 2015

REPOST: Starter Homes: How and Where To Find Them

By Michael Urbanski Posted on February 25, 2015 Posted in Foreclosures, Real Estate Tagged with foreclosures, homes, nar, national association of realtors, real estate, real estate agent, starter homes

(MCT)—First-time homebuyers might well wonder: Where are all the starter houses? Indeed, such properties can seem scarce in many housing markets. A few reasons: —Investors have snapped up a lot of smaller houses and turned them into rental properties. —Flippers have bought smaller homes and remodeled them so they’re no longer within the reach of first-time buyers. —Many current homeowners don’t have enough equity to …

REPOST: Starter Homes: How and Where To Find Them Read more »

What Social Media Platforms Are Best For Your Real Estate Business – Part II

By Michael Urbanski Posted on February 19, 2015 Posted in Real Estate Tagged with business, buyers, facebook, google+, homebuyers, homesellers, instagram, pins, pinterest, real estate, real estate agent, sellers, social media, vine

Last week, we took a look at a few of the most popular social media sites you can use to help build your business. Now we’re going to look into four more social networks and see what they can do for business. Remember your time is valuable and it’s not necessary to be on every network. Choose the ones that fit your business and you …

What Social Media Platforms Are Best For Your Real Estate Business – Part II Read more »

What Social Media Platforms Are Best For Your Real Estate Business – Part I

By Michael Urbanski Posted on February 13, 2015 Posted in Real Estate Tagged with business, buyers, facebook, hashtag, homebuyers, homesellers, linkedin, marketing, real estate, sellers, social media, twitter, youtube

You probably have a Facebook account. You may also watch videos on YouTube and upload pictures to Instagram. Maybe you tweet a few times per week. Chances are you’re adept at social media on an individual level—where you post about events happening in your life on personal accounts. But what about your business—could it benefit from social media? The short answer is absolutely. You probably …

What Social Media Platforms Are Best For Your Real Estate Business – Part I Read more »

Turning a Lead into Two Transactions

By Michael Urbanski Posted on February 5, 2015 Posted in Foreclosures, Real Estate Tagged with advertising, broker, buy, buyer, contract, drip campaign, e-mail, email, home, home buyer, home buyer leads, home owner, home seller, home seller leads, lead, lender, loan officer, long-term, marketing, mortgage, real estate, real estate agent, real estate leads, sell, seller, short-term, solution, transaction, ushud, ushud.com

When most real estate agents see that the lead they just received already owns a home they quickly categorize the lead as a long-term issue and don’t work the lead as well as we may think. As agents we are sometimes looking for short-term answers to long-term problems. The long-term problem gets overlooked as we sometimes find ourselves looking for a quick hit and forgetting …

Turning a Lead into Two Transactions Read more »

Month: February 2015

REPOST: Starter Homes: How and Where To Find Them

What Social Media Platforms Are Best For Your Real Estate Business – Part II

What Social Media Platforms Are Best For Your Real Estate Business – Part I

Turning a Lead into Two Transactions