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Real Estate Market - Think Positive!

By Thomas McGiveron
Let’s face it. Real estate is a long term investment. When you buy your own home, you’re buying for the long haul. Families aren’t speculators and most people don’t buy a home strictly as an investment. So while you may be sweating over the fact that your home is “losing equity” as the […]

Do Flat Fee MLS Listings Work?

By Keith Gordon
The answer is yes but there are plenty of things a FSBO seller with an MLS listing can do to get their flat fee listing noticed by Realtors® and buyers.
Price is the foremost concern for any flat fee MLS listed seller. Below are my top 5 ways to sell flat fee in the […]

The Realities of Living On A Golf Course

By Josh Sloan
Golf course fronting estates became popular in the 1980s, and have since become a common feature of suburban America. Golf-front living can offer some excellent benefits such as outstanding views, having access to your favorite hobby in an instant, a quality home in a safe neighborhood of other quality homes, and, most often, […]

SEO and Real Estate Companies Helping Each Other in Progress

By Jron C. Magcale
Real Estate marketing has gone from papers to cyberspace, as the internet gives the real estate market a significant boost to its surroundings. It is a rather common thing that the internet becomes a tool on marketing, given the power that it offers to the market, internet reaches everywhere, not just locally […]

Break Bread Before You Break Ground

By Julie Gelfand
As in politics, all real estate is local. Few issues can inspire (or provoke) the passions of a community as quickly or as deeply. Land use is a particularly heated topic on Long Island, where the preservation of open space, the development of affordable housing, the rezoning of commercial property, the siting of […]