So… out of over 300 Coldwell Banker Real Estate agents in the Portland / Vancouver area, Scott & I ranked #7 for Gross Commission Earned and earned the status designation of International Diamond Society! (whatever that means). For volume we placed #4 (ish) in the company and hit #1 for volume production in our east side office! We are SO excited to be in this industry and love the challenges & opportunities that our current market has presented us.
Jim talks about the credit for not only the first time home buyers but the credit for the move-up buyer as well. Interest rates are expected to rise but Jim points out that even when they reach 6% they will still be better than the rates we saw in the 80′s! I love your glasses Jim! Very Portlandy! -Kristie McD.
Take a look at this brief video clip; nice overall reflection on the Oregon & Washington home market over the last decade and the home market looking forward. They are comparing our current pricing to that of late 2005. I love a video, click here to see it! I hope to blog more frequently again; it’s been REALLY busy and we are looking to grow our team so that we continue to grow with the business! -Kristie McDonald Everything. Portland. Real Estate!!!
Catch this great great article in Chief Marketer Magazine! Coldwell Banker overloaded YouTube with all our videos!?!? Scott and I are firm believers in Video & YouTube… we do a video of each of our listings and upload it not only to our own YouTube channel but on the Coldwell Banker Channel “On Location” as well. We include neighborhood videos for areas such as Forest Heights, Hawthorne, Beaverton, etc. too!
Coldwell Banker has taken the lead with their YouTube Channel and with their aim at 
staying with and ahead of the market in technology. Check out the recent blurb from Realtor Magazine. click here
Impressive! I wish they had something like this for garage sales! New iPhone application allows you to do many things on your iPhone or Google Android… but the BEST feature I can see is having the GPS identify homes near you that are for sale and all the data you’d want to know about it is also at your fingertips…. way to go CB! (Coldwell Banker)
Jim Gillespie has appeared on several shows talking about the market…. his most prominent topic of discussion is the push for a new credit for the upward home buyer, a credit for $15,000. Although I completely agree that we need an incentive to get home buyers to purchase their next stage home (a home in the next price bracket above the first time home buyer) I disagree that it should be a set $15k. I think the smartest incentive we can offer would be one based on a percentage of the home sale; this would encourage ALL home buyers in all levels of income a reason to “make a move” (pun intended).
I love trying out the newest and “bestest” technology… well Coldwell Banker just announced that they have a cool new tool that allows consumers to post listings from CBSeal.com directly to Facebook & Twitter! You can find not only Coldwell Banker listings but also listings from other brokerages and then easily share them with others!
So I heard mixed reviews about the talking picture frames advertising campaign that Coldwell Banker did….. personally? I loved it! I thought the ads were great and I loved that they were a little funky! Anyhow, Coldwell Banker offers great tech tools to their agents but I was really excited to catch the little video blurb saying that our two talking founders can now be found on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and I think I heard something about Iphone?
An interesting survey was released by Coldwell Banker recently in regards to the expectations that the first time home buyer has when chosing their first home. In general I tend to agree with the survey (more…)
Coldwell Banker came out with a great little quiz… define yourself as an Urbanist, Contemporarian or a … Ranchero…? (I think my dad owned one of those). Anyhow, give it a try! HOUSESTROLOGY QUIZ
