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Using Video for Marketing

October 26, 2010
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Downtown Durham Video Durham videographer Wil Weldon of Growler Productions and Jesse Turner, Landscape Architect and Photographer combined their talents to produce this video for our favorite condos in Downtown Durham. We started talking about doing something like this after Wil and Jesse saw the video in a post here entitled Real Estate Marketing on [...]

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Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

June 20, 2010
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New Director Speaks at Durham Rotary Club Meeting. There’s some irony that while a locally produced documentary about Durham gang life got some national attention and was dragging down the city’s image, Durham’s own Full Frame Documentary Film Festival was becoming one of the top film festivals in the world and the premier documentary film [...]

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Top Ten Durham Websites

June 9, 2010
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My Picks for the Ten Best Websites to Learn about Durham If you believe that the three most important things in real estate are location, location, location, it probably seems a little bit of a paradox that the descriptions most real estate agents write about their listings barely mention it. Part of this is just [...]

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The Brownstones in Durham

April 12, 2010
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High end townhomes slated for luxury market in Downtown Durham Last week the announcement came from Lou Goetz of Park City Developments with new pricing beginning at $675,000 for the proposed Brownstone townhouses between Brightleaf Square and Duke’s East Campus. The plan calls for thirteen residences clustered on property that was once part of the [...]

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Our New Luxury Classification

February 15, 2010
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Let’s start with some stats As promised in the last post, DurhamLuxRE will begin to look at a broader range of the luxury home market over a wider area in the Triangle. Specifically, we’re talking about any home listed and/or then sold for at least $450,000. Our old threshold was $700,000 and we still make [...]

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Durham Is…

July 30, 2009
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As the chair of the PR committee for the Downtown Durham Rotary Club I often end up writing the report on the program for the weekly bulletin. Last Monday, Tom Bonfield, Durham’s new city manager and a member of the club presented the program. I’m re-publishing my write-up here because Mr. Bonfield made such a [...]

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More on School Performance

July 27, 2009
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The link below is to a story in the Baltimore Sun about the importance of schools in home buyers assessment of a community. Even folks without school age children often consider the schools as an indicator of the overall livability of a community. This also supports the larger point that many listing agents and sellers [...]

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More Good News for Durham Real Estate

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There are two things I’m very proud of in terms of my involvement in the community over the years. The first was the small role I played in the late 80′s in downtown revitalization getting Downtown Durham, Inc. off the ground with a coherent marketing theme. During that same timeframe as the Marketing Director of [...]

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Second Quarter Luxury Home Report

June 30, 2009

More of the Same Pulling together these statistics on the Durham luxury home market is getting a little boring I’m afraid. Unlike our neighboring counties of Wake, Orange and Chatham, through the economic downturn Durham has not gotten worse…or better. You might see a glimmer of hope in the fact that for the last two [...]

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The Tobacco Legacy

June 18, 2009
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It may be ironic that sweeping legislation to put tobacco regulation under the control of the FDA has been done during the administration of a president who himself is struggling with a tobacco addiction.  But as Terry Mancour of the London Guardian points out in the article here such regulation was inevitable. I’m no fan [...]

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Living in Durham

June 15, 2009

US News and World Report is big on “Best of” lists to generate some readership and sometimes even some controversy. A story published earlier this month listed their Ten Best Places to Live for 2009. Number 7 on the list is…ta da…Durham. The story is available on the USNWR website at this link along with [...]

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Economic Indicators

June 7, 2009

Economy Up, Service Down I have long believed that the health of the economy is inversely proportional to the quality of service in fast food restaurants. When the economy is good, service truly sucks because they are forced to hire  the dregs of the labor pool.  When the economy is bad they can be more [...]

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Durham on NYT OpEd Page

May 16, 2009

Bob Herbert is a columnist who is regularly seen on the opinion pages of the New York Times.  In today’s edition of the paper Mr. Herbert comments on an event that happened in Durham in 1944.  Strict racial segregation was the norm at the time, of course, but a white basketball team from the Duke [...]

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Anniversary Coming

April 4, 2009

Next Tuesday will mark the anniversary of the first post published on this blog. It was entitled “The Fox”  and was meant to set the stage for future discussions about how far Durham has come since I saw a fox running down Chapel Hill Street near the post office in Downtown Durham in 1985. To [...]

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More from Reyn

March 26, 2009

In the pantheon of Durham bloggers, Reyn Bowman of the Durham Convention and Visitors Bureau is beginning to take his rightful place, primarily using this new media to extend the role of the DCVB as Durham’s marketing agency. But as his profile points out, this is his personal blog  so it also has posts about [...]

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