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Swanepoel
Stefan Swanepoel is widely recognized as the leading visionary on trends and change in the real estate industry. He has penned 14 Books, Whitepapers and Reports including the 1998 Amazon.com bestseller, Real Estate confronts Reality (1997) and the annual Swanepoel TRENDS Report. His academic accomplishments include a bachelor’s in science, a master’s in business economics and diplomas in arbitration, mergers and acquisitions, real estate, computer science and marketing. Today Stefan serves as CEO of the RealtyU Group, one of the largest career development companies in the real estate industry.

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Obama, McCain and Real Estate

Editorial by Stefan Swanepoel I would like to share with you the fantastic afternoon I had this last Saturday. My wife and I had the privilege of being invited to the two hour Saddleback Civil Forum with Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain. This was the first time these two presidential hopefuls, and expected nominees for the Democratic and Republican Parties, shared a public stage. Rick... [Read more]

Real Rescue or Only Bandage?

Can the 2008 Housing Act Stabilize and Turn the Real Estate Cycle Around? Who would have only 5 years ago expected that we would be staring down such complex and turbulent times in real estate? Last week, President George Bush signed The American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 (the Housing Act) into law. It is the most sweeping housing legislation since the Great Depression.... [Read more]

Real Estate Recovery Quo Vadis?

When the stock market took a nose dive, real estate brought growth. When the economy did poorly, real estate introduced wealth. When 911 all but destroyed our faith, real estate restored the American Dream. In many occasions, and in many years, real estate has been the rock to depend, or in some cases even the rocket to ride to riches. But times have changed and the bright years of 2000-2005 have become... [Read more]

Wikinomics

Wikinomics is a book by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams. If you haven’t read it yet, do yourself a favor and get it. It is a good interesting read on how the Web is no longer about idly surfing and passively reading or watching, but how it has evolved into a new dynamic form of community and creative expression, one of sharing, socializing, collaborating and creating communities. Participation... [Read more]

Is the Future of Real Estate in Google’s Algorithm?

As firmly as IBM ruled mainframe computing and Microsoft the personal computer age for many years, so currently Google today rules the Internet. Originally nicknamed “BackRub” in 1998 by Stanford University buddies, Serge Brin and Larry Page, Google has not only become one of the most admired companies of the modern day but has found itself into our every day language, with the verb “google”... [Read more]