Thursday, March 30, 2006
How to Price Property is Seller's Top Challenge
The challenge for sellers in today’s market is how to price the property because they cannot expect to get the price that they might have gotten a year ago. According to The Washington Times, the author cites that pricing is the key for selling and there are only a few ways to price a home for sale. Sellers need to use the accepted modes of pricing. The first model is probably the most popular, the comparable. And another way to price your home is to come up with a tax assessment model. This one takes a little bit more homework and data mining. The author reminds that if your agent provides feedback from colleagues that your house is overpriced, move from denial into acceptance and price the house right. Seller should remember, the goal here is not to price the property as high as possible, but to sell the house. [M. Anthony Carr, The Washington Times, March 17, 2006]
Thursday, March 16, 2006
I LOVE New Technology!
"RIM: Web Services Will Trump Mobile Browsers"eWeek (Maryland Association of Realtors E-Newsletter 03/01/06) ; Hines, Matt
Though Research In Motion's (RIM) days may be numbered due to litigation over BlackBerry handhelds, senior product manager David Heit believes he has found the key to the future of mobile application delivery for businesses in the design of new Web services-based tools to build new applications and not mobile browsers, as are being pushed by many in the industry. "The assumption is that the mobile browser experience should be the same as the desktop experience, but we believe that the usage patterns are different than when you're sitting at your desktop, versus when you're working with a mobile device," says Heit. "The mobile experience is much more about immediacy and having information available when you need it. Web services represent a third development model beyond browsers and something like Java, and they will greatly increase our ability to extend applications onto the handheld." In accordance to this belief, RIM has launched the Blackberry MDS Studio, a visual platform design and assembly tool that allows software developers to more quickly build applications for mobile devices using the drag-and-drop method. The technology has gained a following: Real estate specialist JJ Barnicke, for example, has built a field sales automation tool for its agents. But analysts say if such technology is to gain a greater foothold, wireless carries will have to embrace it first. "At the end of the day, the U.S. market is all about control by the carriers, and from their perspective pushing Web services through their portals gives them a lot more control, so there could be some resistance," says Current Analysis analyst Brad Akyuz. "I don't think that there's much question that someday the predominant way for delivering applications to mobile handsets will be push-based services built on Web services," he notes. "But the manner in which carriers embrace all of this, which mostly remains to be seen, will have a significant impact on where and when we see these types of applications showing up."
Though Research In Motion's (RIM) days may be numbered due to litigation over BlackBerry handhelds, senior product manager David Heit believes he has found the key to the future of mobile application delivery for businesses in the design of new Web services-based tools to build new applications and not mobile browsers, as are being pushed by many in the industry. "The assumption is that the mobile browser experience should be the same as the desktop experience, but we believe that the usage patterns are different than when you're sitting at your desktop, versus when you're working with a mobile device," says Heit. "The mobile experience is much more about immediacy and having information available when you need it. Web services represent a third development model beyond browsers and something like Java, and they will greatly increase our ability to extend applications onto the handheld." In accordance to this belief, RIM has launched the Blackberry MDS Studio, a visual platform design and assembly tool that allows software developers to more quickly build applications for mobile devices using the drag-and-drop method. The technology has gained a following: Real estate specialist JJ Barnicke, for example, has built a field sales automation tool for its agents. But analysts say if such technology is to gain a greater foothold, wireless carries will have to embrace it first. "At the end of the day, the U.S. market is all about control by the carriers, and from their perspective pushing Web services through their portals gives them a lot more control, so there could be some resistance," says Current Analysis analyst Brad Akyuz. "I don't think that there's much question that someday the predominant way for delivering applications to mobile handsets will be push-based services built on Web services," he notes. "But the manner in which carriers embrace all of this, which mostly remains to be seen, will have a significant impact on where and when we see these types of applications showing up."
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