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All that's needed to join Facebook is a valid email address. To connect with coworkers or classmates, use your school or work email address to register. Once you register, join a regional network to connect with the people in your area.  

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Social media is newest way that REALTORS® can use the power of their contacts to find new listings and prospective buyers throughout the world.  Though there are a number of well known general social networks online, most are not geared towards real estate. The REALTOR Association of Greater Miami and the Beaches (RAMB) is focused on providing the most effective set of real estate marketing tools for its members and Vidlisting is a key partner in that effort.

1. Was the designation training developed by a luxury home expert?

2. Are the trainers teachers or true luxury market experts?

3. What do agents who’ve taken the course say about it?

4. Does the designation have credibility?

5. Is it a true LUXURY designation?

6. Are there multiple levels of membership in the organization?

7. What are some of the member benefits?

1. Was the designation training developed by a luxury home expert?

RAMB North on the Go invites you

to a complimentary seminar to give you the latest

information of Reverse Mortgages

Thursday, August 28, 2008

at

Goldcoast Schools in the Intracoastal Mall

3577 NE 163 Street • Miami, FL. 33160

Speaker: Mario A. Quintero, Mortgage Consultant

Stockton Turner Reverse Mortgage Division

Do you have questions or need a better understanding of Portability or November's Constitutional Amendments? Attend this seminar to help you to understand the New Homestead Exemption and Portability as it applies to future property taxes. Please join Danielle Blake at The Miami Herald in West Broward and get your questions answered.

Danielle Blake

RAMB's Vice President of Government Affairs

Get your questions answered on Portability and the Constitutional Amendments:

A tight lending market, slowing economy and smaller retailers scaling back are a few of the reason for the rise in retail vacancy rates and some softness in the price-per-square feet in South Florida.  A detailed article in the Miami Herald's August 11th edition highlights many of the concerns but also discusses some of the strengths.  For example, larger retailers and premium space is still sought after in many areas.

For the whole article and it's details and statistics click HERE.

Record Number of Overseas Visitors Coming to United States - Visitors experience America and bring abundant benefits

Washington -- Despite increasing airfares due to rising fuel prices, record numbers of international travelers are coming to America.

It’s a bargain for people outside the United States to come here. Hotel room rates in New York, for example, are up 11 percent in dollar terms, but only a mere 1.5 percent increase when calculated in euros, according to Bobby Bowers of Smith Travel Research in Hendersonville, Tennessee.

“Once you’re here, in terms of staying in a hotel, it’s cheap,” Bowers said. “Alternatively, for those traveling from the U.K. to Paris, [they] won’t find the value [they would] get by going to places like Orlando [Florida] or [Washington] D.C.”

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) – Aug. 7, 2008 – The values of homes, businesses and other properties across Florida declined $153 billion during the last year, and the murky economic picture isn’t expected to improve until sometime in 2009, state officials said.

Total property values dropped an unprecedented 6 percent, double the figure economists had projected last year. The decline would have been worse if not for $55.6 billion spent on new construction, according to data reported by The Miami Herald in its Wednesday editions.  The rest of the story...

WASHINGTON – Aug. 7, 2008 – Some improvement is projected for existing-home sales in the months ahead, with broader gains seen by the fourth quarter as buyers take advantage of new provisions provided through the recently-passed housing stimulus bill, according to the latest forecast by the National Association of Realtors® (NAR).

The Pending Home Sales Index, a forward-looking indicator based on contracts signed in June, rose 5.3 percent to 89.0 from a downwardly revised reading of 84.5 in May, but remains 12.3 percent below June 2007 when it stood at 101.4.