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RREA has fully optimized versions of our website for mobile phones and tablets. We strive to offer the best real estate information in the most convenient manner possible. This mobile version of our site feeds our interactive business cards, ads, and yard signs. Check it out using your iPhone, iPad, Android, or other mobile device and let us know what you think.

RREA is happy to announce it’s new url shortening tool. If you are familiar with tinyurl or bit.ly, this is a similar service. This tool shortens a long url for use in Twitter and other social media where character count matters.

While we primarily use this service for our internal use, we thought we could offer it to our readers, clients, and friends as an alternative to other free (although sometimes unreliable) alternatives. We hope you enjoy it.

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This quick video tutorial explains our technique for automatically generating content foe social media using Yahoo Pipes to manipulate RSS feeds and then using Twitterfeed to inject those feeds into social media accounts.

DALLAS (Dallas Morning News) – Austin ranked fourth and Houston eighth out of more than 50 U.S. cities listed in the “Emerging Trends in Real Estate” report.

 The annual commercial real estate forecast projects which cities will be the hottest prospects for commercial real estate investment opportunities. 

 Dallas-Fort Worth area ranked 12th. The area received high marks for offering stable housing prices and low business costs, but lost points because of its high office vacancy rates and the ease of building new projects.

 However, DFW was second only to Los Angeles as one of the best places to buy industrial properties.

Why is Now a Great Time to Buy?

1. You can get a good deal. Prices are down 30 percent on average. They’re at a level that makes sense for people’s income.
2. Mortgages are cheap. At 4.3 percent on average for a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage, your costs to own are down by a fifth from two years ago.
3. You can save on taxes. When you add up the deductions for mortgage interest and others, the cost of owning can drop below renting for a comparable place.
4. It’ll be yours. The one benefit to owning that never changes is that you can paint your walls orange if you want (generally speaking; there might be some community restrictions). How many landlords will let you do that?
5. You can get a better home. In some markets, it’s simply the case that the nicest places are for-sale homes and condos.
6. It offers some inflation protection. Historically, appreciation over time outpaces inflation.
7. It’s risk capital. If the economy picks up, you stand to benefit from that, even if you’re goal is just to have a nice place to live.
8. It’s forced savings. A part of our payment each month goes to equity.
9. There is a lot to choose from. There are some 4 million homes available today, about a year’s supply. Now’s the time to find something you like and get it.
10. Sooner or later the market will clear. The U.S. is expected to grow by another 100 million people in 40 years. They have to live somewhere. Demand will eventually outpace supply.

 This article first appeared in The HOUSTONREALTOR® Magazine by  Brett Arends.

We are proud to announce the beginning of RREA Media, a division of Register Real Estate Advisors. If you are asking how this will help you sell your home, you need to see some of our new listing videos!