http://www.matthewferrara.com Technology Tips, Updates, Articles and News for the Modern World of Real Estate! en-us http://www.matthewferrara.com/jan07/images/horizontal_logo.gif http://www.matthewferrara.com/jan07/splash_index2.html 238 79 http://www.matthewferrara.com/mar07/articles_vista_wait.html By now it's no secret: Microsoft's new operating system Vista is shipping - somewhat - to beta testers and early adopters (a.k.a. geeks) in a few select corners of the world. After a number of substantial delays and critical decisions to drop a few components, Microsoft is preparing to change your view of computing with its latest OS. How real estate professionals will benefit - should they even decide to upgrade - is yet to be seen. http://www.matthewferrara.com/mar07/articles_shape.html By all accounts, 2006 was a fairly good year. Some agents would have called it a "down" year - but if the only evidence for that is that some of us did a few less "exuberant" deals than the year before, we should always be so lucky in "down years." Not every real estate professional had a down year, though; and of those that didn't, one important trend stands out... http://www.matthewferrara.com/mar07/articles_roost.html Consider it a wake up call: interest rates are a little higher, inventory is a lot larger and days on market are far longer. Certainly, it's not a crisis - not a burst bubble - but nobody can deny that the marketplace has substantially changed from last year's frenzy days of have-a-pulse-and-a-license-make-a-sale conditions.