by Matthew Ferrara | Oct 6, 2010 | Blog, Featured, Opinion, Real Estate, rssfeed
Can you feel it? Maybe it’s the change of seasons, the political campaigns or robo-signers who are to blame, but what the housing industry needs right now is just a little peace and quiet. I started detecting it about three weeks ago; just after Labor Day. The...
by Matthew Ferrara | Jul 1, 2009 | Blog, Featured, Management, Real Estate, rssfeed
“Reports of my death are greatly exaggerated,” So quipped Mark Twain after hearing his demise had been published in the New York Times. The same might be said today about the real estate industry. A lot of hullabaloo has been making its way through the web...
by Matthew Ferrara | Jun 2, 2009 | Blog, Featured, Real Estate, Research, rssfeed, The Market
These days, too many brokers are winding down the clock to bankruptcy, with lots of help from their sellers. Too much misplaced blame has been on buyers of late. Other than foreclosures, we have not looked hard enough at sellers’ contribution to the inventory...
by Matthew Ferrara | May 15, 2009 | Featured, Management, Next Generation, Real Estate, rssfeed, Strategic Thinking
Fans of Spencer Johnson’s book will recognize the theme in today’s column: Something has definitely moved in today’s real estate industry. For decades, the industry built by Baby Boomers for Baby Boomers has essentially run the same race through the...
by Matthew Ferrara | May 5, 2009 | Blog, Featured, Management, Research, rssfeed, Sales, The Market
Real estate is a tricky business. At some point, you’d expect things to “mean” what they say. Yet we’re an industry that can’t even decide what exactly constitutes a “bedroom.” In some markets, it’s a broom closet;...