Matthew Ferrara & Company

March 2008

Why REALTORS Still Fail Consumers

Mar. 31, 2008

You're going to gasp with horror when you read it. Unfortunately, too many of us may recognize someone "we know" in this message. And that, my friends, is why so many REALTORS fail.

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Why REALTORS should Applaud the Mortgage Meltdown

Mar. 31, 2008

Tagged with: housing market, meltdown, mortgage crisis, realtors

Contrary to popular belief, real estate professionals should be very happy about much of the mortgage meltdown.

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Crack for your Berry

Mar. 29, 2008

Tagged with: blackberry, email, sales, software

Add some power to your Blackberry email with Empower HTML viewer - and make your Berry even better!

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The Housing Market Is Not Broken

Mar. 28, 2008

Tagged with: crisis, housing, real estate, realtors

It's easy for the media to point out how the housing market is "failing" - even if most of it is slanted coverage of a very narrow set of problems - or the wrong problems altogether.

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Price Listings like Visa Priced its IPO

Mar. 21, 2008

Following up on my recent entry "Stop Whining!" I thought it would be helpful to point out some of the vitality in the greater economy. Of course, you're not going to find this in too many news outlets: Even my favorite newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, put it in Section C way in the back:

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Why the Fed is Hurting the Housing Industry

Mar. 20, 2008

Tagged with: inflation

Is it possible that the Federal Reserve, despite all of its protestations to the opposite, really hates the housing industry? Could Bernanke and the rest of the Fed cronies not only be totally incompetent, but actually have a vendetta against the middle class? Is there any evidence that the Fed is out to absolutely destroy the housing market even as it professes to be trying to save it.

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