From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Real Estate Commissions

May 21, 2008

After college and teaching for several years I decided that I wanted to try the corporate world. When I went shopping for appropriate business attire, a close family friend advised that when I bought a suit to always ask the merchant to throw in a shirt and a tie. Sometimes it worked and sometimes it [...]

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Wealthy See Opportunities in Real Estate

May 16, 2008

MarketWatch.com on the Wall Street Journal Digital Network recently reported on research that indicated that the country’s wealthiest citizens believe that it’s a good time to buy real estate. We agree with that. Borrowing rates are still good for the credit worthy and opportunities abound to negotiate with nervous sellers. Click the link for the [...]

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Durham Ranked 12th by Fortune Small Business

May 15, 2008

Fortune Small Business recently ranked Durham number 12 in the country in its list of the 100 best places to live and launch a business. The complete list and the write up on Durham is linked here at the CNNMoney website. The short write-up is what you might expect about the high-tech environment, cultural opportunities, [...]

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Site Change – Easy Access to Lux Report

May 9, 2008

Originally the link in the left sidebar to the Durham Luxury Report for 2008 took you to a landing page which captured a name and email address that had to be verified before access was given to the report. The system provides statistics on who has shared this information and downloaded the report. There was [...]

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Other Voices – Amazing Changes

May 5, 2008

The Herald-Sun offered Paul Andrews the opportunity to talk about why he and his wife chose to live in Durham and how they feel about the decision now. Paul  moved here from the Northeast almost 20 years ago.  His “Other Voices” column on the editorial page of today’s paper adds to the chorus of people who have reflected [...]

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Friday Morning Exercise

May 2, 2008

If you are interested in how luxury homes are being marketed locally you can spend about a half hour on line and learn a lot. As a Broker and REALTOR I have direct access to the information in the Triangle Multiple Listing Service but a better way to get the broad picture is to use [...]

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Pricing in the Luxury Market

May 1, 2008

In its April 28th edition, Business Week reports on a study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that may require re-thinking a little bit the economic theory of the diminishing marginal value of the dollar and price elasticity. In the study the subjects who were students were placed in an MRI machine [...]

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