Darrin Friedman's "RE Tech Broker"

  This information was sent to the local Realtor Association this morning.  It seems a bit crazy to me!  It is true we have a bunch of vacant properties; but this is going a bit far. Mayor Fenty has proposed the creation of a $250-$5,000 Vacant Property Registration Fee.     In the Mayor's propos...

  The imple­men­ta­tion date for the Home Afford­able Fore­clo­sure Alter­na­tives Pro­gram of the Fed­eral Gov­ern­ment (HAFA) is this com­ing Mon­day, April 5.  The pur­pose of HAFA is to stream­line, the short sale process. I have detailed out the plan with several links on what you - the AGE...

Choos­ing the right Real Estate con­ven­tion is hard…but this should help!   Last week I had din­ner with a few of social net­work­ing peeps and I soon dis­cov­ered some sage advice from some of those I most respect.  Who are these peeps?  They are peo­ple who are so con­nected on the nation wide...

Someone somewhere said that supply rules everything.  Boy, they weren't kidding.  In February the Washington D.C. Housing market was dictated by the fact that the inventory is slim pickings and the well priced home moves fast.  In fact, if you were to look at 2007 numbers of inventory, this last...

                      After an already exciting week things got more so.  The Washignton Business Journal featured the Chevy Chase Office.  I hope you guys like it:      

Property Sales January Property sales were 308, up 15.8% from 266 in January of 2009 and -42.6% lower than the 537 sales last month. January 2010 sales were at a mid level compared to January of 2009 and 2008. January YTD sales of 308 are running 15.8% ahead of last year's year-to-date sales of ...

  Yesterday I was recognized by my company for recruiting.  The calculation was not based on how many people I hired, but how successful those agents became after joining the office.  And I realized, for a while now people have been asking me where I find such great agents.  So that got me thinki...

Today my office launched a new program for it’s agents called Business Development Groups, or “Hot Groups”.  These groups are aimed to help the agents in the group gain market share through a strategically focused effort that will hopefully enable our Agents to have a tremendous boost to their ex...