Monthly Archives: November 2008

Obeo Prize at NAR – $1,000.00 CASH

It pays to visit the Obeo Booth at NAR (National Association of REALTORS® Conference & Expo). Every year we have a drawing for a great prize. Last year was a flat screen television and this year was $1,000.00 Cash!
Congratulations to Les Sulgrove of Des Moines, Iowa who was randomly selected as our winner on the [...]

Mortgage Rates fall for third week in a row

Don’t let your buyers miss these low interest rates. Mortgage rates fell for the third week in a row, and the fourth time in five weeks, as the economy settled uncomfortably into its recession. The benchmark 30-year fixed-rate mortgage fell 6 basis points, to 6.33 percent, according to the Bankrate.com national survey of large lenders. [...]

October existing home sales fall by 3.1 % but not for Las Vegas and Orange County buyers

“I don’t blame the buyers, they are acting rationally,” said Lawrence Yun, the trade group’s chief economist.
The median sales price plunged 11.3 percent from a year ago to $183,000. That was the largest year-over-year drop on records going back to 1968, and the lowest median sales price since March 2004.
Compared with last month, sales were [...]

Obeo Launches New Blog to Enhance Customer Communication

Highlights include special customer offers and posts from the Obeo leadership team

(SALT LAKE CITY, Utah) – Obeo, a leading provider of full-service residential real estate online marketing products in North America, has launched a new blog to enhance customer communication and offer faster sharing of information with Obeo audiences.
The blog, www.obeosphere.com, gives users the opportunity [...]

FREE Obeo StyleDesigner Special

To kick off the official launch of our new blog this week, we wanted to offer a special promotion to all our blog readers out there.  We plan to post special discounts and promotions on our blog each month, so make sure you come back regularly to check for the latest special offer and read [...]

Obeo @ Triple Play (Dec. 9-11)

Obeo Highlights Innovative Tools and Services at Triple Play 2008
Convention focuses on the need for tools and information to thrive in today’s market

(SALT LAKE CITY, Utah) – Obeo, a leading provider of full-service residential real estate online marketing products in North America, will feature its host of innovative tools and services at the Triple Play [...]

Share your HomeSite tours

A few weeks ago I wrote about how to embed your HomeSite virtual tours into your web page or blog page. Many people loved the idea, but admittedly the instructions were complicated and most people had questions about how to actually do it.
So… we’ve added a new feature to the HomeSite Tools section that will [...]

Deal Between Obeo and Certified Staging Professionals Offers New Technology to Stagers, Agents and Consumers

Industry consultant Verl Workman keynote speaker at Professional Stagers Conference

(PETERBOROUGH, Ontario) – Obeo, a leading provider of full-service residential real estate online marketing products in North America, is pleased to announce a new partnership with Certified Staging Professionals™, offering a new technology for stagers as well as agents and Obeo clients.
Certified Staging Professionals™ is a [...]

Every down cycle is just the beginning of the next up cycle!

Nobody would deny that it’s a crazy residential real estate market out there that is fraught with frustration, confusion, fear and turmoil. However, it would only require a small adjustment to one’s perspective to see that opportunities abound! As real estate consultant John Burns said, “Remember, every down cycle is the beginning of the next [...]

Obeo Partners with Zoocasa to Expand Syndication Network in Canada

Zoocasa.com offers new, innovative way to search for homes in Canada
(PETERBOROUGH, Ontario) – Obeo, a leading provider of full-service residential real estate online marketing products in North America, is pleased to announce a new strategic, syndication partnership with Zoocasa, a home hunting search engine for Canadian properties.
Zoocasa’s search platform provides consumers and business partners with [...]