Selma Hepp of CAR Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #373

Bruce Norris is joined again this week by Selma Hepp. Selma is the senior economist for the California Association of Realtors, a statewide trade organization with more than 100,000 members dedicated to the advancement of professionalism in real estate. Selma directs the activities of the association’s research and economics group. She oversees the research and analysis of housing markets and economic trends, member and consumer surveys, and the impact of real estate related regulatory and legislative policies. She earned her Masters degree from SUNY in Buffalo and a PhD from the University of Maryland. Bruce and Selma discuss immigration, the lending requirements that went into effect in January, the hedge funds in 2012 and 2013, the percentage of the market going to foreign investors, legislation passed in 2013 that could pose concerns, debt forgiveness, and much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.

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Coldwell Banker Pioneer Owner Lance Martin Joins Bruce Norris on the Real Estate Radio Show #279

This week Bruce Norris joined once again by Lance Martin.  Lance is broker/owner of Coldwell Banker Pioneer Real Estate.  He has been in the business since he was 19 and is usually involved in short sales and REOs.  This radio segment focuses heavily on short sales.  Bruce and Lance discuss short sales and how they are more common in today's market, the long process for handling short sales, the process banks are going through to clean up their bad portfolios by paying people to do a short sale, the increase in short sales in the hard money loan business, the reason for short sales to get denied, and much more on this week's real estate radio show and podcast.

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