Barry Habib of MBS Highway Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #484

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Barry Habib. Barry is an American entrepreneur and frequent media resource for his mortgage and housing insight. He has had a long tenure with monthly appearances for CNBC and Fox. Barry is the CEO of MBS Highway, a company and platform created to help interpret and forecast activity in the mortgage rate and bond markets. Barry has had many successful businesses that he has founded, grown, and sold. This includes Mortgage Market Guide, Health Care Imaging Solutions, and Certified Mortgage Associates. Barry’s mortgage sales career includes being recognized for having the highest annual origination production in the United States on two occasions. He personally originated over $2 billion in mortgage loan production over his career. Bruce and Barry discuss the current ten-year T-Bill, oil prices and their effect on inflation rates, the different levels of inflation, the possibility of a recession, baby boomers and millennials, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Barry Habib of MBS Highway Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #483

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Barry Habib. Barry is an American entrepreneur and frequent media resource for his mortgage and housing insight. He has had a long tenure with monthly appearances for CNBC and Fox. Barry is the CEO of MBS Highway, a company and platform created to help interpret and forecast activity in the mortgage rate and bond markets. Barry has had many successful businesses that he has founded, grown, and sold. This includes Mortgage Market Guide, Health Care Imaging Solutions, and Certified Mortgage Associates. Barry’s mortgage sales career includes being recognized for having the highest annual origination production in the United States on two occasions. He personally originated over $2 billion in mortgage loan production over his career. Bruce and Barry discuss people's current attitude toward participating in the market, mortgage demand this year compared to last, the current homeownership rate, the financial outcome for a renter versus an owner, principal reduction, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Jim Brown of Keller Williams Joins Aaron Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #482

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Jim Brown. Jim is the owner of Keller Williams Corona and has been in real estate for around 20 years. Bruce did a transaction with him back in 1992, even prior to him being in the business. His Keller Williams office did about a $1 billion in the first quarter of 2016. Bruce and Jim discuss how many Realtors don't close a transaction in a year, agents who make $1 million compared to those who make next to nothing, who dominates in the real estate world, cross-qualifying, decision Realtors make that can hurt the industry, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Rob Hahn of 7DS Associates Joins Aaron Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #481

Aaron Norris is filling in for Bruce this week and is joined again by Rob Hahn. He is the founder and managing partner of 7DS Associates as well as the blog The Notorious R.O.B. Here, he opines on topics including real estate, technology, marketing, and strategy. You may even catch him at speaking engagements like Inman Connect, T3 Summit, and local, state, and national association events. Aaron and Rob discuss how real estate pros obtain business and listings, the importance of local databases, strategies Realtors use for farming leads, renters in the market, real estate technology trends in the next five years, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Rob Hahn of 7DS Associates Joins Aaron Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #480

Aaron Norris is filling in for Bruce this week and is joined again by Rob Hahn. He is the founder and managing partner of 7DS Associates, a strategy and consulting firm rooted in strategic analysis and data. Aaron and Rob discuss MLS databases, the competion between Zillow and Realtor.com, what is copyrightable in the MLS, the job of agents and brokers when it comes to dealing with the database, Zillow's overall position in the database market, what customers the agents spend most of their time on, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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