| ADVERTISEMENT Use Twitter? Get real time updates on breaking news stories. Follow us: @InmanNews TODAY'S TOP STORIES = Premium Member News - Join Now » Wednesday, January 27, 2010 Social, mobile, local real estate An Inman News Special Report Real estate industry professionals and technologists got a whirlwind tour of bleeding-edge innovation and housing market issues and trends during the latest Real Estate Connect conference in New York City, held Jan. 13-15. As a reference and resource for those who attended -- and for those who weren’t able to attend and want to catch up on what they missed -- this report includes a range of news articles and video links related to the conference. More » Mob mentality I received the bad news in my inbox this morning. It seems that because I failed to renew a certain subscription to a cool embeddable "thingy," a "thingy" that I had inserted in posts on my blog on more than a couple of occasions over the years, I was being canceled. Surviving Las Vegas real estate downturn With the declining market, particularly in terms of market prices, we've had to shrink the brokerage department, reduce staff, and what we've really had to do is take advantage of technology so we could do more work with fewer people. New-home sales fall to record low in '09 Sales of new single-family homes dropped to a record-low estimate of 374,000 homes sold in 2009, down about 22.9 percent from the previous year, federal agencies reported today. Survey: President's 'report card' falls On the eve of President Barack Obama's State of the Union address, the results of a survey conducted for real estate search site Trulia reveal that 38 percent of respondents believe the president deserves a "D" or an "F" for his efforts in restoring homeownership as part of the American Dream. Drawing the line on cell towers Located in Southern California, Palos Verdes Estates is a planned community, about a quarter of which is devoted to public rights-of-way, both for aesthetics and transportation. NOTABLE QUOTE "(T)he global economic events of the last couple of years have occasioned me to be asked an ever-increasing number of questions about bankruptcy, and my real estate practice has certainly crept closer and closer to the field of bankruptcy law, bumping right up against it as clients facing foreclosure and negative equity on their homes seek out wide-ranging solutions and relief." --Tara-Nicholle Nelson |
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