Ralph McLaughlin of Trulia Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #488

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Ralph McLaughlin. Ralph is the Chief Economist for Trulia and leads their housing and economics research team. He provides house hunters with key insights about the economy as well as housing trends and public policy. His educational background includes a BS in geography and regional development from the University of Arizona. He also has a PhD in planning, policy, and design from the University of California Irvine with a specialization in urban development. He has more than a dozen publications and research papers in the field of housing, economics, land use, and housing policy. He was previously director of the certificate in real estate development at San Jose State University. Bruce and Ralph discuss affordability and its relationship to the housing market, yields and investments and their effect on real estate, traditional and speculative flipping, touch and go properties, the different demographics and whether they are favorable toward real estate, the buying activity of those of Generation-X, and much, much more on this week's Norris Group real estate radio show and podcast.

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Ralph McLaughlin of Trulia Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #487

Bruce Norris is joined this week by Ralph McLaughlin. Ralph is the Chief Economist for Trulia and leads their housing and economics research team. He provides house hunters with key insights about the economy as well as housing trends and public policy. His educational background includes a BS in geography and regional development from the University of Arizona. He also has a PhD in planning, policy, and design from the University of California Irvine with a specialization in urban development. He has more than a dozen publications and research papers in the field of housing, economics, land use, and housing policy. He was previously director of the certificate in real estate development at San Jose State University. Bruce and Ralph discuss advising builders what to do in an uncertain market, the economies to look at when determining the future of real estate, factors when viewing interest rates, our current economy with little GDP and full employment, the topic of housing among presidential candidates, 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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