tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-98119382011-08-01T14:03:03.365-04:00A site to discuss issues relevant to life in Durham, North Carolina, the home of the Research Triangle Park, the Durham Bulls, Duke University and the Duke University Medical Center.Jay Zennerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04447882930512681450noreply@blogger.comBlogger131100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9811938.post-10173975851634896892010-06-23T10:42:00.000-04:002010-06-23T10:42:09.799-04:00

Here's another post from www.4PsRE.com for those interested in marketing homes in Durham or anywhere. The real estate business is changing and agents and their listing clients must adapt to the need for more sophisticated home marketing.Treat Your Listing Like a BMW

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The following is a link to a post I wrote for my one of my other blogs that is targeted specifically at real estate agents and anyone else who wants to promote or practice more sophisticated real estate marketing...or should I say...home marketing, since so much of most agents marketing effort is designed not to market homes but to market themselves.Our Distribution System

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I'm continuing to build the SpringtreeTerritory site as my main real estate site with DurhamLuxRe and TheDurhamite serving to complement it. My latest post on SpringtreeTerritory is a year end wrap up of sales in the Durham real estate market for 2009.Check it out for a glimmer of hope. The fourth quarter this year is the first in two years to improve over the same quarter in the previous year...

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For many years the contrast between the vibrancy of the luxury home markets in Durham and those in Chapel Hill has been stark. Chapel Hill has boomed and Durham typically has two and a half years worth of inventory on the market. The joke was that the best thing that could happen to the Durham luxury home market would be to be to get Chapel Hill to annex Durham and give everyone in Durham a

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From www.DurhamLuxRE.com As we pass Memorial Day, the Summer solstice and Independence Day, the dog days of summer are upon us. We’ve also had more consecutive days with rain than many of us can remember. But even if drought fears have receded a bit, sales of luxury homes in Durham have been sparse and July and August are not typically strong months even in the best of times. Last year in

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As part of my real estate practice I have created another blog devoted to upscale homes sales in Durham. The market for high end real estate in Durham has been flat for a number of year. Sales over $700,000 have averaged about 32 per year and typically about 75 or 80 homes in that price range are on the market. This means that there is usually twice as many...or more...homes for sale than the

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I have often expressed my fondness for Durham's "texture" by which I mean that it isn't a carbon copy of dozens of cities across the Southeast. Durham has it's neighborhoods that might not be that much different than neighborhoods in those other cities but the combination of ethnic diversity, high tech opportunity, universities, cultural activities and sports make it pretty special. However,

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I'm a proud member of the Rotary Club of Downtown Durham. This year I'm the publicity chairman. The first event I undertook to publisize was our participation with Duke, NCCU and Stop Hunger Now in the Million Meals campaign. NCCU really took the lead in the publicity, so for our part I did a guest editorial in for the Herald-Sun. The first draft was about 1200 words and the paper asked me to get

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I sent the following response to an editorial in the Herald-Sun suggesting that Duke might be wise to lower its expectations for football. If you read on, you will see that I question several of the editorial writer's assumptions. This response was not published. There are several possible reasons for this. First, they had just published a scolding response of mine to a story on downtown Durham .

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You have got to wonder what is really going on at Shepard Middle School that would motivate a parent by the name of Minnie Brown to organize Concerned Black Citizens for the sole purpose of ousting the principal, herself Afro-American, for being too rough on certain black students. Juxtapose this with the pressure recently to reduce the number of suspensions meted out disproportionately to black

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The Durhamite What a great idea! Maybe we can't change the world but maybe we can influence events in Durham

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The businessman picture 

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I used to submit a letter to the editor every once in a while to my hometown newspapers, the Richmond Times Dispatch and the Richmond News Leader, the latter a defunct afternoon paper. I haven't done it as often since I moved to Durham, North Carolina over twenty years ago. I really became disillusioned and believed that the editors of the papers in Richmond controlled the views expressed by

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