Leslie Appleton-Young of CAR Joins Bruce Norris on the Norris Group Real Estate Radio Show #532

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Leslie Appleton-Young. She is the vice-president and Chief Economist of the California Association of Realtors, a statewide trade organization with over 200,000 members dedicated to the advancement of professionalism in real estate. Leslie directs the activities of the association’s member information group. She oversees the analysis of the housing market and brokerage industry trends, member communication, and membership development activities. She is also closely involved the association’s strategic planning efforts, and she is a well-known speaker in the California real estate community.

Bruce and Leslie discuss when she first got started in real estate, what the market was like at that time, how it has changed over the last couple decades, especially with affordability, migration patterns, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Shubber Ali of Centriq Technology Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #531

Aaron Norris is filling in for Bruce this week, and he is joined by Shubber Ali. He is co-founder and CEO of Centriq, a software platform designed to connect homeowners with everything they need to know about the home in an easy-to-use app. Previously he was vice president of strategic innovation for salesforce.com. This was Forbes most innovative company for the past four years. He held C-level executives at Fortune 100 companies to develop and execute on transformational business process innovation initiatives across retail, banking, and manufacturing. He is a regularly featured speaker on Process and Disruptive Innovation, and he has published numerous articles on topics ranging from innovation to management of core competencies in corporations. He serves as a consultant to the World Bank on digital infrastructure in developing markets. Recently he was a new member of the digital infrastructure working group for the World Economic Forum. Shubber has a very impressive resume, and there is actually more on the website.

This segment primarily focuses on the new app they created at Centriq, including how you can have it for your own use, what it is and how it works for appliances, how it makes things easier for tenants, renters, and homeowners, Aaron's first-hand experience with it, how this app could work for real estate, what Shubber sees in the future for it, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Erik Hernandez of Lee & Associates Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #530

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Erik Hernandez. Erik has been with Lee & Associates in the commercial real estate division since 2000. Prior to that he was in research since 1994. He specializes in industrial real estate, and he has been on the radio show a number of times prior. He is also the Norris Group’s go-to person for the commercial world.

This segment primarily focuses on innovations in technology, including what we are seeing and could see in the coming year, what new technology is happening that could change supermarkets, how it could change the way we are educated, how this could lead to issues with the work industry that we would need to solve, as well as which real estate sector is the easiest to repurpose for other use, what is happening in the industrial side of real estate that has affected the office market, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Erik Hernandez of Lee & Associates Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #529

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Erik Hernandez. Erik has been with Lee & Associates in the commercial real estate division since 2000. Prior to that he was in research since 1994. He specializes in industrial real estate, and he has been on the radio show a number of times prior. He is also the Norris Group’s go-to person for the commercial world.

Bruce and Erik discuss the segment of the commercial world he works in, what year was considered a peak in the commercial world, how much construction we saw in industrial real estate last year, vacancy and availability rates, the push in foreign investors, whether the industry is concerned about another recession, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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REO Mentor Tony Alvarez Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #528

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Tony Alvarez. Tony is very familiar with the Norris Group’s audience and has been a friend since he and Bruce first met in 2003. He mostly buys properties to hold with an occasional flip in the mix. He now does this in a couple different states.

Bruce and Tony discuss people's attitudes at the peak of a boom, which market Tony was inspired to work in based off Bruce's advice, what we see an increase in with the aging population, the Lancaster market today compared to the last peak, rents today compared to 2005, and much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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