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By admin • October 26th, 2009

Building Client-for-Life Relationships: Essential Then, Now and Forever
Building client-for-life relationships is one of the keys to success in the real estate industry. Mastering the process of acquiring leads, nurturing them into clients and continually providing outstanding service takes practice, but once you are able to establish yourself as a trusted source of information, you will begin [...]

Ray Gronowski has been named Senior Vice President of Sales & Partnerships at Listingbook. In his role, Gronowski will focus on the growth of broker partnerships, increased agent awareness of Listingbook services and greater adoption. He will also focus on building a sales force to accomplish these goals.

North Carolina-based Listingbook™ is continuing to expand client-servicing to the California real estate marketplace with the announcement of a signed agreement with MLSListings Inc., based in Sunnyvale, CA. Listingbook, the nation’s leading online service that connects real estate agents and their clients, will be delivered to MLSListings’ members beginning this summer. In partnership with the MLS organization, Listingbook will revolutionize how Northern California homebuyers and sellers receive real estate listing information and communicate with the nearly 20,000 MLS member agents.

An article was published yesterday, June 2, 2009, on The Wall Street Journal’s SmartMoney website is titled Home Buying Sites Flying Under the Radar.

The article starts out, “Technology has drastically changed the way homes are bought and sold.” That got our attention and we couldn’t agree more. So, where did they do their research for this article? SmartMoney asked real estate industry professionals which lesser-known web sites and services home buyers should use to guide them through the bumpy real estate market. Listingbook is one that stood out.

Greensboro, N.C., May 18, 2009 – Continuing its effort to expand service to the Western US real estate marketplace, ListingbookTM, a leading online service that connects real estate agents and their clients, today announced it has agreed with the Arizona Regional MLS (ARMLS) to deliver it’s system to their members and revolutionize how Arizona homebuyers [...]

As Listingbook gains more recognition across the country, the stories and unsolicited customer testimonials are growing as well. We think that they speak for themselves. Listingbook was again featured in The New York Times on Friday, May 15 in an article titled, My New House? I Met It Online.

LISTINGBOOK ANNOUNCES SUPPORT FOR THE CALIFORNIA REAL ESTATE TECHNOLOGY SERVICES (CARETS)
Greensboro, N.C.—Listingbook, the nation’s premier real estate client servicing application, is leading the evolution of online real estate services with its support of one of the nation’s largest and most innovative MLS data share programs, California Real Estate Technology Services, Inc (CARETS).
With the implementation of [...]

Check out the fantastic article from Sunday’s NYT entitled “Brokers Enrich Their Web Tactics.”

If a mortgage lender gives you an answer to this without asking you any questions, say thank you, hang up and call someone else.

Why? Because in today’s world there is no such thing as “today’s interest rate”.

NPR reports on the largely unused Hope for Homeowners program, part of last summer’s housing bill that was meant to address the crisis in mortgage foreclosures.

High loan and interest fees, tough restrictions for consumers and costs to lenders are some of the reasons why the program has not caught on.