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Poised for a successful 2010!

Posted on January 8, 2010 by | Leave a comment

By: Brad Horner

Happy new year!

We are proud to share this exciting company news with you.  Based on our 2009 success, we are well positioned in 2010 to be the region’s new homes real estate sales and marketing leader.  The following is just a highlight of our accomplishments:

  • During 2009, NRT Development Advisors lead the market in the implementation of creative repositioning strategies for developer clients with new construction communities, resulting in immediate increases in qualified traffic and closings.
  • We successfully created an innovative sales and marketing platform for bank-owned new construction homes, achieving more than $125 million in sales.
  • The company has expanded its territory to cover Georgia, Florida, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington, D.C. due to client demand.  
  • We surpassed our 2008 sales in 2009.
  • The company attained the status of #1 New Home Real Estate Company in Atlanta for all property types, as well as for Multi-family Sales according to Trend Graphics (which is based on FMLS data).  

Our ability to offer the highest level of resources and talent from a specialized team of new home professionals – as well as the industry insight and connections due to our partnerships within Coldwell Banker, NRT and Realogy Corporation – helped to expand our list of developer and bank clients, services and territory.  
 

It’s rewarding to work for a company that is an exception to the rule in such a challenging economy, as our 2009 success has lead to 2010 growth.  In the past year, NRT Development Advisors worked with real estate developers, investors and financial institutions to develop creative sales and marketing strategies that resulted in large volumes of homes being sold, while still preserving the integrity of developments and neighborhoods, and clients have tapped us to duplicate these success stories in other markets this year.

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Happy New Year!

Posted on December 31, 2009 by | Leave a comment

2009 is almost over and we gladly ring in a brand new 2010.  With a new year starting, we always hope to make positive changes in our life both personally and professionally.  We start by setting resolutions and goals in the hope that they will be accomplished with gusto in the New Year but for some reason we quickly get distracted and they are cast by the wayside.

Below are some quotes that are perfect for the New Year and are written by famous people, past and present.  Enjoy using these to inspire you to not cast your goals and resolutions by the wayside.

Youth is when you’re allowed to stay up late on New Year’s Eve. Middle age is when you’re forced to. ~Bill Vaughn

Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin

The Old Year has gone. Let the dead past bury its own dead. The New Year has taken possession of the clock of time. All hail the duties and possibilities of the coming twelve months! ~Edward Payson Powell

Cheers to a new year and another chance for us to get it right. ~Oprah Winfrey

We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day. ~Edith Lovejoy Pierce

Happy New Year to everyone!

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Defining Value

Posted on October 21, 2009 by | Leave a comment

By: Maria Mena

Value is a word we hear frequently today. In today’s economy it is being used by marketers to draw us to their product.

 Value is a word that we learn early in our lives. As toddlers we are fascinated by the clinking sound of coins as they hit the belly of our new piggy banks and quickly learn to distinguish the differences in coins. At a young age we learn to distinguish the value of numbers; we quickly learn to value our food, our parents, our pacifiers, our toys.

Then, as the circle of our lives expands we learn to value more.

 Yet, this word continues to perplex and challenge us throughout our lives. As people we value our health, our family, our religious beliefs, our marriage, our friends, our country, our freedom, our cities and communities, our neighbors, our home teams, our homes, our safety, our abilities, our jobs, our time off, our vacations, our investments, our pride, our privacy, in short…our lives!

 At some point most of us come to realize that sometimes we must choose among the things we value most and making choices can be difficult.

 The reality of having to make choices, when looking for a home hit me like a ton of bricks when I moved back to Atlanta in 1991. I wanted to live in a certain neighborhood but I wanted a home that was in another.

When I reconciled the neighborhood issue then other value questions arose. I wanted the kitchen of one house, the garage of another, the backyard of a third, for the price of the fourth!

 When looking for a home it is important that you clearly understand what you value the most. Make a list of your priorities and communicate this to your agent.

You should distinguish “wants” from “needs” when looking at houses and rank them in importance and then look for a home with the most important features that are “needed”.

 It’s fine to want it all, but be clear with yourself regarding what you value most and what as a buyer you actual need.

There are a variety of homes on the market and you should not feel the need to settle.

Take advantage of the great value of buying a home today.

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