On Thursday, April 24, 2008, Inman News released an Industry Special Report titled “Auction market: Growing, growing strong.” Online home auctions and the growth of RealtyBid.com were part of the focus of the report. This is an excerpt from the report by Glenn Roberts:
…RealtyBid.com, an online real estate auction site launched in 2001, reported a record […]
My business partner and co-founder of RealtyBid.com, Mike Keracher, was one of several featured speakers at a gathering of potential real estate investors this past weekend. Unfortunately, the crowd at the investing conference was far smaller than Mike expected.
After the conference was over, Mike talked with the conference organizer. He had truly enjoyed hearing Mike’s […]
RealtyBid.com has helped sell more than 12,000 homes for real estate agents and their clients throughout the United States through online home auctions. We work exclusively with real estate agents. In other words, every property auctioned on our site is affiliated with a listing agent; we do not accept “For Sale By Owner” or FSBO […]
The National Association of Realtors announced Monday (February 25, 2008) that sales of existing homes fell for the sixth straight month in January. Existing home sales dropped to the slowest sales pace on record.
MSNBC.com reported, “Median home prices were also down and many analysts predicted further price declines in the months ahead given high levels […]
“Believe in your product!” is a sales adage as old as selling itself, and while I have confidence that our entire RealtyBid.com staff understands the power of the innovative online auction tool we have built at RealtyBid.com, there may be no one who understands it and believes in it more than our chief technology officer, […]
As we are all too aware, the status of new home sales is a powerful indicator of the state of the housing market. Recent Commerce Department statistics confirm that the state of new home sales is not strong. These Commerce Department stats show that new home sales fell in December to a 12-year low. The […]
At RealtyBid.com, we’ve recently made some major upgrades to our website to enhance the home auction experience of our clients and customers and to more effectively accommodate our site’s ever-increasing traffic, inventory and amount of bidding.
Many of the changes we’ve recently made revolve around improving specific facets of the functionality of the site, especially the […]
In my last entry, I talked about the major technology upgrades RealtyBid.com recently implemented, and I focused on an enhancement that we feel is making a real impact for our clients and customers already. That upgrade is the implementation of state-of-the-art information display technology that enables those viewing RealtyBid.com property bid pages to see the […]
My business partner and RealtyBid.com co-founder/executive vice president, Mike Keracher, just completed an article, titled “The Emergence of Internet Marketing as a Fast Track Tool,” for an upcoming issue of REOMAC Update magazine. This is a publication that addresses topics of interest to mortgage default industry professionals, but I feel like what he had to […]
There are many different reasons why agents and sellers choose to sell a home through an online home auction on RealtyBid.com. But, there may be no reason that is closer to the heart of real estate agents than the fact that RealtyBid.com online auctions force potential buyers “off the fence.”
All real estate agents have at […]