2009 News Releases Home Sales | Housing Statistics | News Archive
12/29/2009	Building a Buzz: REALTORS® Create Awareness for New Home Tax Credit — Due to a recent decision by Congress, Wisconsin homebuyers will once again stand to benefit from an ...
9/14/2009	WRA Welcomes New Chairman — The Wisconsin REALTORS® Association (WRA) is pleased to announce the installation of ...
8/21/2009	Sheboygan County REALTORS® Unite to Promote $8,000 Tax Credit — The Sheboygan County Board of REALTORS®, at the suggestion of a group of members, developed a ...
7/15/2009	REALTORS® Develop Wisconsin Foreclosure Assistance Web Site — A new online resource developed by the Wisconsin REALTORS® Association can help consumers take steps to avoid foreclosure or ...
4/23/2009	Governor Doyle Recognizes REALTORS® 100th Anniversary — In front of nearly 400 cheering members, Governor Jim Doyle presented ...
4/17/2009	New Tax Benefits for Home Buyers Touted — Home buyers in Wisconsin will benefit greatly from a new federal income tax credit according to ...
3/11/2009	26 Tips You Should Know About the $8,000 First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit — Still have questions about the tax credit program passed by congress for first time homebuyers? Here are 26 tips you should know about the credit ...
2/14/2009	Economic Stimulus Bill Sent to President — The Economic Stimulus Bill has been passed by Congress and forwarded to the president for signature, which is anticipated by ...
Home Sales Reports
11/10/2009	Wisconsin Home Sales Up in Third Quarter as Median Prices Moderate — Wisconsin home sales increased for the first time since the recession began nearly two years ago, according to data reported by the Wisconsin REALTORS® Association. Existing home sales increased...
8/12/2009	Wisconsin Home Sales and Prices Fall as Unemployment Rises — Wisconsin home sales and median prices both fell in the second quarter of 2009 relative to that same quarter in 2008 according to data just released...
5/12/2009	Wisconsin Home Sales and Prices Fall — Wisconsin home sales and median prices both fell in the first quarter of 2009 compared to that same quarter last year according to data just released...
2/12/2009	Wisconsin Home Sales Fall Significantly But Home Price Decline is Modest — There was good and bad news for Wisconsin's housing market in 2008. While housing sales fell significantly last year...
Real Estate News Archive
Archive of 2009 Items     December 2009 HouseLogic.com Helps Build Relationships WRA Launches Tax Credit Campaign Economist Claims Market on Rebound Nearly 1 in 8 Weatherization Jobs Flawed Smart Growth on Track Alderman, Neighbors Clash Home Buyers Starting Out Smaller NAR OKs Indexing of Listings New-Home Sales Rise 6.2 Percent Challenges for Sales Professionals Don't Be Dumb About Smart Phones Steps to a Better Web Site REALTORS' World Is Changing Rapidly A Little Alfredo With That Listing? Agents Venture Into Social Networking DocuSign Offers REALTOR Discount   November 2009 Podcast Your Way to Today's Buyer Barrett Announces Candidacy for Governor WRA Launches Member Survey NAR Launches Web Site for Homeowners Existing Home Sales in Wisconsin up 5.8% President Obama Signs Tax Credit Bill President Obama Signs Tax Credit Bill President Obama Signs Tax Credit Bill Congress Passes Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension Congress Passes Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension Congress Passes Home Buyer Tax Credit Extension   October 2009 Three Wisconsin Students Start Real Estate Website Apartment Recycling Ordinance Isn't Enforced Third-Quarter Housing Sales Show Mild Gain Lawmaker Proposes Mediation Before Foreclosure Home Buyers' Tax Credit Ends [Nov. 30], But Rushing Into a Purchase Could Be Risky REALTORS Are a Little Older, Making a Little Less Democrats May Extend Tax Credit for Homes 4 Ways Real Estate Professionals Can Use Zillow.com Firms Get a Hand With Twitter, Facebook The Confident Rookie Series: Admit You're New & What to Say When You Don't Know the Answer Strategies: Can You Answer the Question, 'What Do You Do?' Local REALTORS Turning to Online Sites for Networking Opportunities How Real Estate Agents Can Use Bonuses and Incentives to Get More Clients and Sell More Homes Handling the Referrals You Receive State Street Development Will Honor Corinne Owens Geneva's Plan Going to County Rush for $8000: First Time Homeowner Tax Credit Expires in 2 Months Milwaukee-Based We Energies Predicts Lower Winter Heating Bills for Fox Valley, Southeastern Wisconsin Residents Program Helps First-Timer Homeowners in Buying Foreclosed Houses Home Prices Down 30 Percent Housing Construction Rises in August 6 Steps to Generating Free Leads on Craigslist Virtual Staging Brings Empty Homes to Life How Real Estate Agents Can Get Rich An Hour a Day -- Keeps Customers Coming Your Way! Perk Up a Sale After a Life in One House Applications Make Twitter a More Powerful Tool Study: Paperless 'Comes of Age' Riverside a Work in Progress Change the Way Local Governments Are Funded Housing Crisis Might Affect Crime Rates Tours of Green, Renewable Homes Coming This Weekend Census Defines Eau Claire County Homeowners Try to Save Their Dreams Home Prices Rose in Most Major Cities in July Web Marketing Latest Trend in Real Estate Portland REALTOR Turns to Bike Sales The Web Your Way: 7 Real Estate Tools Knoxville REALTORS Use Tweets, Status Updates to Sell Homes How Real Estate Agents Can Take Their Business From Local to National The Confident Rookie Series: Let Your Seller Prospect Talk & Get Comfy With Your Commission Money for Tough Times Landlords Could See More Regulation in Near Future Assessments Unlikely to Change Property Taxes for Brown County Homeowners Congress Asked to Continue First-Time Home Buyer Credit Know Your Madisonian: Bill Malkasian Flor Named Chairman for WRA U.S. Builder Confidence Rises to Highest Level Since May 2008 Housing: Short Sales Spread Across Real Estate Market, Leaving Frustration in Their Wake A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Words How to Use E-Mail to Increase Sales and Reduce Competition 5-Point Checklist for Natural Search Engine Rankings Owners Clean Up Their Act When Selling Study Backs Up Calls to Extend Homebuyer Tax Credit If REALTOR® Is a Problem, There's a Way to Address It Many REALTORS® Go Without Health Insurance MSNBC: Oshkosh Out of Recession Health Reform Clears Major Hurdle More First-time Home Buyers in Market   September 2009 DRLink Partner September Edition Available WRA Launches Facebook Tax Credit Videos September President's Update for AEs and GADs REALTORS® Core Health Insurance Program Tell Congress to Extend Homebuyer Tax Credit It's Not Too Late to Set Sail WRA Welcomes Chairman John Flor Wal-Mart Renovating Wisconsin Stores Strict Standards Proposed to Reduce Foreclosures Home Sales Up Last 3 Months in SE Wisconsin Signs of Improving Wisconsin Economy New DNR Rule Could Restrict Shoreland Building Demand Grows for Smaller Homes Condos Forced Into Creative Action Auctioning: A Viable Home Marketing Technique Is Your Home on the Tube? Assault on Sales Agent Punctuates Safety Week Level of Service Creates Success DocuSign Gets iPhone App The Joy of Real Estate Operations New Wrinkles Used in Real Estate Marketing Greenfield Planning $60M Development Wisconsin Utilities Projecting Lower Costs to Heat Homes With Natural Gas This Winter Merrill Hopes Location Attracts Business Development to City Vacation Home Market 'Realistic' Wisconsin Is Warning Homeowners About Loan Modification Scams and Foreclosure Rescue Scams New Normal for Home Sales: Buyers Have the Power U.S. Real Estate Professionals' Forward-Looking Market Sentiment Improves 5.4 Percent The Principles of Negotiation With Every Tweet, Provide a Takeaway Local REALTORS Targeting Foreign Buyers Real Estate Pros Urged to Use 'Digital Tools' Online Video Advertising Shows Signs of Life Putting Prospecting to Work Target Builders and Boost Your Business Public Housing Loans Approved for New Transit Center in Downtown La Crosse Nielsen: Milwaukee Loses TV Market Households National Home Sales Jump, Central Wisconsin Catching Up Shorewest Acquires Savaglio and Cape Madison Real Estate Management Company Uses Social Media to Launch Public Awareness Campaign on $8,000 Federal First Time Homebuyer Tax Credit Fifteen Top Rural Areas to Retire Pending Home Sales on a Roll, Up for Sixth Straight Month Dallas Company Launches Real Estate Application NAR Offers REALTORS Certification for Short Sales, Foreclosures Recruiting Experienced Agents -- What's Your Strategy? Agents Push Pools as 'Staycations' Grow Popular The Seven Rules of Advertising Real Estate Sites See Sharp Increase in Traffic Using Your Phone Behind the Wheel Wisconsin Becomes the First State to Require BIM on Public Projects Property Values Down But Not Out Madison Chronic Nuisance Ordinance Up for Renewal Green Bay Receives Housing Grants Keeping Stimulus Momentum Going Home Prices Level Off Bernanke to Be Reappointed as Fed Chairman Know Your Buyers; Better Their Lives Real Estate Marketing Strategies -- Are You Sabotaging Your Own Success? Real Estate Notebook: Local REALTOR Harnesses Latest Phone Technology Green' Is Low Real Estate Priority Real Estate Agents Turn to Specialists for Short-Sale Help REOTrans Launches Online Certification Program 4 Steps to Sold: Making AIDA Work for You in Real Estate Marketing   August 2009 Home Prices on the Upswing Madison's New Smoke Alarm Ordinance Goes Into Effect Saturday Slight Increase in Building Permits for Single-Family Homes in Dane County Senate Panel Backs Hiking Fine for No-Call List Violations Home Sales Up in Shawano, Oconto Counties REALTORS® Optimistic Despite Sales Drop Sheboygan County REALTORS® Unite to Promote the $8,000 Tax Credit WRA: Wisconsin Housing Market May Be Stabilizing Home Builders' Index at Highest Point in a Year Real Estate Rebound? Existing-Home Sales Inch Upward in Chicago Region Say Goodbye to Newspaper Advertising Video Best Practices: Online Video -- Make Your Investment Count Selling Homes, One Facebook Friend at a Time Making Real Estate More Social and Mobile Focus on Listings A Better Way to Promote State's Business Climate WHEDA Offers Assistance to Rural Home Buyers Fannie Withholds Approval for MGIC A Developing Trend: Biggest Residential Construction Projects Are Apartment Buildings Credit Disqualifies Some for Habitat Homes Guide Answers Waterfront Property Questions Milwaukee County July Home Sales Increase First-Time Home Buyers Get New State Incentive Drive Search Engine Traffic With Video SEO How Can Agents Attract Buyers to Open Houses? Open House Events Still Mainstay in Real Estate Biz Why Your Real Estate Agent Packs Pepper Spray Closing.com Widget Estimates Closing Costs Selling Home Can Be Emotional Facebook's a Great Friend to Businesses Racine Man Takes Over Proposed Owens Square Unemployment Weakens Local Office Market Two Rivers Officials Say Shoreline Condos Not Planned Green Bay City Council Reins In Packers Party Houses Proposal Would Restrict Development in Areas Containing 'Hydric Soil' Homebuilders Think Small Inventory of Houses Falls in July Pending Home Sales Up 5th Straight Month Some Home Flippers Seek Aid by Flipping St. Joseph on His Head Where 'For Sale' Listings Are Changing Social Networking Strategies -- What's the Right Way to Push Your Business on Facebook? Mobile Tagging Is Not a Crime Tracking What Works Real Estate Pros Find Creative Ways to Assist Clients Close the Deal Real Estate From Your Pocket HUD Releases RESPA FAQs Doyle Says No to Third Term But Pledges Full Agenda Through 2010 2nd Quarter Housing Statistics Released WRA Seeking Committee Members   July 2009 Should Madison Offer a Bigger Financial Carrot to Lure Businesses, Jobs? Wisconsin Ranks 10th In Child Well-Being Wisconsin REALTORS® Start Web Site to Offer Guidance for Struggling Homeowners Facing Foreclosures Milwaukee Area Housing Recovery? Dunn County Housing Market Starts to Pick Up Steam Condition, Price Keys to Selling Homes New-Home Sales Jump as Prices Fall Sharply Midwest Home Sales Post 3 Percent Gain Real Estate Marketing Strategies: 5 Tips to Feng Shui Your Mind and Get Your Listings Sold The Upside of Entering on a Downswing From Prayer to Facebook, Agents Try Whatever Works Dual Agents Can Balance Interests Virtual Staging -- Brilliant (And Maybe Dangerous … ) The 7 Habits of Highly Successful Real Estate Agents $11 Million Senior 'Cottages' Development Planned for Menasha Milwaukee Committee Approves Rivianna Plans Timing of Grand Chute's Sewer Fee Hike in Question Fondy Named to Magazine's List of '25 Best Places for Affordable Homes' Lack of Affordable Housing Spurs New Approach Wisconsin REALTORS® Association Offers Online Project to Help People Avoid Foreclosures REALTORS® Say Housing Incentives Help Economy, Small Businesses Housing Starts Had Surprise June Jump Are Those Buyers Worth Your Time? Real Estate: Lease-to-Own an Option for Buyers Rethinking the Open House Own Your Niche iPhone3GS Has Slew of New Features The Art of Selling a Home Despite a Marital Split Virtual Staging Sparks Sales of Vacant Homes Federal Housing Finance Agency Publishes Update on Home Valuation Code of Conduct Short Circuit: Struggling Homeowners Opt for Alternative in Order to Avoid Foreclosure Hidden Bills, Poor Upkeep Can Push Home Prices Downward Affordable Housing Trust Fund Could Be Aid Option for Madison Renters Foreclosure Resource Center Website Milwaukee-Area Home Sales Up, Prices Down Mortgages Are Now a Bank's Best Friend U.S. Economy Seen Recovering Real Estate Photos Make Online Home Listings Stand Out IDX -- If Real Estate Is Location, Location, Location -- Then Map, Map, Map Getting More Bang From Bounce Rate Targeting Safety Tools for Tweets 6 'Must-Haves' for Your Web Site Brokers Need Social Media Guidelines REALTORS® Develop Wisconsin Foreclosure Assistance Web Site REALTORS Launch New Association Fan Page Weathering the Storm' Topic of Local Meeting Estimate Shows Beloit Growth NR115 Could Force Major Changes Real Estate Agent Who Enjoys Her Job Sees No Reason to Retire To Recuse or Not to Recuse Waukesha Homebuilder J. Anthony Homes Acquired Cities Grow at Suburbs Expense During Recession Wisconsin Regulators Expected to OK Minnesota Wind Farm Mapping, Google's Local Business Center & Going Mobile Hot Desks' Are Here Home Sales Advantage: Fiber-Based Broadband Brokers Need to Go Back to Basics, Says Sales Guru 4 Easy Ways to Cultivate First-Time Home Buyers Virtual Assistants' in Higher Demand Text Marketing Gets Message Into Hands of On-The-Go Consumers Habitat Opens ReStore in Ashwaubenon Onalaska Considers New Utility Resources Board Approves Shoreline Regulation Changes Program on Web to Offer Information on Tax Credit for First-Time Home Buyers Milwaukee Edges Up in Population Tighter Home Appraisal Rules Can Be Locked Door for Unusual Designs DRL Launches External Newsletter - DRLink-Partner Edition Survey Shows Optimism on Housing Prices When Apartments Fail, Buckingham Cos. Gets a Call Keep Your Virtual Employees in the Loop REALTORS® Thinking Out of the Box to Get Prospective Buyers in the Door REALTORS® Throw Statewide Open House Drip E-Mail -- The Slow, Effective Way Twittering Adds Up to Home Sales In Slow Market, Home Life Is Staged Open Houses Can Pull In Potential Buyers   June 2009 Pending Sales Up for Third Consecutive Month The Home Valuation Code of Conduct REALTOR® Technology Survey 2009 Housing Market Follows Economy Down in First Quarter NAR Introduces REALTORS® Core Health Insurance NAR Launches GreenREsourceCouncil.org WRA Launches Public Awareness Campaign Focusing on $8,000 Tax Credit

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