November 2008 Archives

The news out there for real estate continues to be bleak. Falling home prices, long market times, falling sales, credit issues for buyers, the list goes on. If you've been in the business awhile, seeing the ups and downs, you might be trying to hang in there while the "newbies" who jumped into the market in the last five years are steadily abandoning real estate for greener pastures.

But sometimes, even for us veterans, it's hard to keep up our confidence. Our industry is going through tremendous challenges with changes that aren't going to disappear once the current market recovers. That's because the changes we are seeing are systemic in nature, challenging our most basic real estate assumptions and practices.