By RISMedia.com article takes a look ahead at 2009; Blefari featured
A recent article at RISMedia.com notes some of the changes that have taken place in the real estate industry in 2008 and offers some insight into how business will be conducted next year.
For example, the article says that it is important that real estate agents know that “overall economic health is far down the road.”
When it comes to consumer confidence, Ron Peltier, chairman and CEO of HomeServices of America, says it is the job of the real estate industry to ensure that consumers “understand that real estate is still a smart investment,” the article says.
The story also says that for successful brokers and agents, cost cutting is a “highly creative and refined process.” That’s where Intero President and Founder Gino Blefari comes in to the story.
The article quotes the comments he made during RISMedia’s recent 13th Annual Power Broker Forum. During the forum, he said he cut $1 million from his budget. On his list of ways to save, he said he got rid of the “exotic coffee machines” and became a “green operation,” the article said.
Talk about green initiatives will become even more prominent in 2009, the RISMedia article says.
Carson Matthews, a Realtor with Harry Norman Realtors, an Atlanta-based company had this to say:
“It’s our job as stewards of the environment, but also as real estate agents, to educate our clients about what they can do in the homes that they’re buying and/or selling to help this cause.”
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