real estate
I was in California over the weekend, and sat through several presentations from top agents in Silicon Valley as a favor to a friend considering putting his home on the market. It was interesting to see how they presented comps and market homes out there. Only one of the agents still uses print ads to market homes, another never places ads in the larger circ papers — “waste of money”, said he, preferring smaller hyper-local pubs, if any. For this crowd, it’s all about the web and emails/texts. 89% of buyers search for homes online, they said. But get this: among buyers aged 25 to 44, a whopping 95% use the internet to search for a home. Internet buyer’s incomes are 25% higher than traditional buyer’s incomes. More buyers find their homes on the internet than through signs, home builders, or print ads combined.
This is Briggs Freeman agent Joan Eleazer and her beautiful real estate selling family in the main parlor up in Hickory Creek. Layne Pitzer is Joan’s daughter pictured here with her precious children, and Joan’s husband (Layne’s dad) Jeff Eleazer. They were all up at Champ d’Or weekend before last for the special invitation pre-view party before Saturday’s big auction.…
Last week, we introduced you to Garcia Desinor, Junior and told you about his new-fangled real estate broker model. Junior (as he has been called since the day he was born) hires agents and pays them a salary, almost unheard of in the traditional agent broker model. Junior is married to Kristin Desinor, they met at Texas Tech.…
Valets at the W Hotel were scrambling this morning at 7:30 a.m. when a rush of sleek cars and black suited commercial real estate types descended. The Urban Land Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based commercial real estate development, planning and research group was in town talking about the markets and what we can expect in the…
Look at that handsome young man! Garcia Desinor Junior’s story just kind of melts my heart and makes me feel good about, well, don’t laugh, America. I know this sounds schmultzy for the profile of a dynamic Dallas Realtor who is only 28 and already knocking it out of the Ballpark. But really, Junior’s story…
