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How to Correctly Price a House

Posted on December 3, 2014 by Russell Shaw

  CLICK HERE FOR FULL SEMINAR   How To Figure Out What a House Should Sell For.  Or I suppose I could call it “How We Decided The Price of Our Last 5,000 Listings” Link to Notes from the Class  Some of the items we cover: If “Price per Square foot” was actually a valid method to price a home Zillow would be correct most of the time. The problem is NOT that no one knows how to price property. The problem is that they don’t know what they know – they can’t teach it. It becomes “a knack” they

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Zillow Takes Over The World!

Posted on July 28, 2014 by Russell Shaw

To some the most alarming event is on the horizon now – it is official that Zillow IS buying Trulia.  Some think they are going to take over the industry.  I don’t.  I don’t think they are “going to do” much of anything.  They have already DONE it.  They just absorbed their only major competitor.  They now have the bulk of real estate web traffic.  This is not something that is “going to happen”.  Zillow did not marginalize Realtor.com  You can thank the apathetic, always looking backwards, and only covering their own ass dunderheads that run the National Association of

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Posted on October 11, 2013 by Russell Shaw

A few days ago I posted this update about the market:  http://www.nohasslelistingblog.com/2013/10/09/buyers-hit-the-pause-button/  A friend sent me the following text:  “Just read your blog.  What are you doing to get past this little stall we are in?  Any advice?”  Yes.  When the market slows, as it has, it does not mean that “nothing is selling” or that it has all gone to hell.  Buyer activity (which is what drives the market) is never really constant.  It is always fluctuating – and therefore the relationship between supply and demand is seldom static – it is normally moving.  It is that relationship between

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