Ann Arbor Real Estate Talk

I heard Stefan Swanepoel speak at a RE/MAX Michigan Conference in February 2006. Stefan studies all the new real estate trends thoughout our industry. I was so impressed by his absolute unbiased research on every franchise and company and his dedication to our industry in general. Stefan recently started blogging on Activerain and tweeting on Twitter.

It has been fun to get to follow him on a consistent basis.  Recently he posted on The Top 10 Events Impacting Real Estate in 2008.

I was going to copy the whole post here with his permission but just go here and read it is well worth it and the comments from Realtors across the nation of fun to read.

Stefan is also co-founder of the Real Estate Wiki, the largest online real estate encyclopedia in the industry.

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One of the Geeks I met at ArbBar Camp was Charlie Wollborg from Curve Detroit. Charlie likes to refer himself as the Chief Troublemaker at Curve Detroit. Curve Detroit is a marketing firm located in S.E. Michigan.

I like what they say:

“If your advertising doesn’t produce sales then it is just expensive art with your logo on it”

If Michiganders spent just $20.00 a week on buying local Michigan made products we could circulate 3.7 billion into our economy.

Michigan $3.7 Billion Bailout is Approved! from Charlie Wollborg on Vimeo.

Here is a list to see all the products made in Michigan.

I had posted on Not Just the Big Three back in November 2007, so I won’t list all of them here but a few are Kelloggs Cereal, Jiffy Mix, Bissell Carpet Cleaners, and Herman Miller Furniture.

If you live in Michigan, why not go to BuyInMichigan and take the pledge to help our economy out. You can download the list of products and places to purchase our state.

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I just added a new page to this blog,  called Trends.

The purpose of this page is to keep you up to date on all the market changes on a weekly basis of the market in both Ann Arbor and Saline market changes in Real Estate.

The page is updated weekly and empowered by Altos Research. I am excited to be working with Altos to keep YOU informed of market changes on a weekly basis.

You can subscribe to this blog and not miss out on when the data changes.You can also request the market report be sent to you via email by filling the form out below.

Another feature I added is in the side bar called Wanna Chat? It is a live chat and when I am online you can ask me any question on your mind.

A black box will appear on the bottom of your screen and you can use any chat app that you use like Google Talk or Meebo. The name of the app is Hab.la

Hab.la was developed by Ben Congleton who I met at an ArbBar Camp in Ann Arbor.

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Market Data for Ann Arbor, Michigan.

I have recently hired Altos Research to compile the market data for Ann Arbor and Saline Michigan. Any day now the data will be live and will update weekly. The last chart shows the amount of new homes coming on the market.

You can see that fewer homes are being listed right now. In fact it all looks pretty good except the sale prices continue to decline. However, less inventory is a good thing as will level out the supply and demand.

Typically, at least in the 13 years I have been a Realtor in the Ann Arbor Area, we are slow during the month of December. However, because of the economic crisis that hit us all in October, the November elections, we have seen really good activity during December.

Search the listings in the Ann Arbor Area MLS.

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