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Online References from the December 2004 Issue

We've compiled all the online references mentioned in the current issue of your membership magazine here. Just click the links below to reach the additional information referenced in the print magazine.

To access all articles from this issue of the print magazine, visit the table of contents .

PAGE 37 25 Hot Trends (in alphabetical order by title in print magazine)

Aging in place

• Louis Tenenbaum – independent living strategist
  
• National Association of Homebuilders Certified Aging in Place Specialist Designation
  
• REALTOR® hometown hero: Creating options, by Christina Hoffmann Spira, REALTOR® Magazine article, September 2003
  
  All the home’s a stage (home staging/styling)
  
• Setting the stage, by Stacey Moncrieff, REALTOR® Magazine article, April 2003
  
• Choosing and using a professional stager, by Robyn A. Friedman, REALTOR® Magazine Online, April 2003
  
• Stagedhomes.com
  
• Center Stage Homes Inc.
  
  Anytime, anywhere Internet access
  
• NAR Center for REALTOR® Technology’s report on remote MLS access tools
  
• NAR Library’s Field Guide to Internet Basics
  
  Changing office demand (offshoring/telecommunting’s impact)
  
• The great jobs shift, by Robert Freedman, REALTOR® Magazine article, May 2004
  
• A.T. Kearney Report on offshoring financial services jobs
  
• , by Scott Muldavin, NAR National Center for Real Estate Research, November 2003
  
• REALTORS® Commercial Alliance Committee Executive Summary, May 2004
  
• Offshoring may cripple U.S. office markets, REALTOR® Magazine Online news, March 11, 2004
  
• NAR Library’s Field Guide to Telecommuting
  
  Check out these buyers! (merchandising buyers in a hot market)
  
• Developing a winning offer(requires REALTOR.org login), REALTOR® Magazine Online
  
  Coach mania (sales/life coaches)
  
• Sales Clinic: Is coaching right for you?by Walter Sanford, REALTOR® Magazine Online, December 2003
  
• Ask Mr. Internet: How good are you?(on virtual coaching), by Michael Russer, REALTOR® Magazine, February 2003
  
• International Coach Federation
  
  Commercial data sharing
  
• REALTOR.org commercial information exchange page
  
• REALTORS® Commercial Alliance, More on commercial information exchanges
  
  Condos: hot, hot, hot
  
• Sales of condos and co-ops hold near record, NAR news release, Nov. 3, 2004 (3rd quarter 2004 condo, co-op sales)
  
• Condo sales break annual record, fourth quarter exceptional, NAR news release, Feb. 4, 2004 (2003 condo, co-op sales)
  
• NAR existing-home sales data for condos and co-ops
  
  Different mousetraps (new brokerage models)
  
• Business models: New approaches, by Robert Freedman, REALTOR® Magazine article, October 2003
  
• Disclosure key to working with limited-service brokers, REALTOR® Magazine Online news, Nov. 8, 2004
  
• Double duty, double risk, by Robert Freedman, REALTOR® Magazine article, August 2004
  
  The great outdoors (outdoor kitchens and other amenities)
  
• Home design trends: Beyond curb appeal, by Barbara Ballinger, REALTOR® Magazine article, April 2004
  
• Outdoor Kitchens, by Ken Sidey (Meredith Books, 2003)
  
  Home sales keep rocking
  
• Current Economic and Housing Dataat REALTOR.org's Research page
  
  Keeping data safe
  
• NAR’s Center for REALTOR® Technology(for information on the center’s REALTOR® Secure program and on software programs NoScrape and reCaptcha for combating piracy)
  
• NAR’s Information Security Tool Kit
  
  Licensee boom
  
• NAR tops 1 million members, NAR news release, April 15, 2004
  REALTOR® Magazine’s May 2004 issue contained a series of article related to growth in NAR’s membership. Here are links to that content:
  
• The power of one million, by Frederik Heller
  
• New building, greater presence, by Robert Sharoff
  
• The new breed, by Jim Hatfield
  
• Giving you your money's worth, by Stacey Moncrieff
  
• Opportunity abounds, by Lawrence Yun
  
• Real estate in pop culture, by Jim Hatfield
  
  Market stretch (salespeople expanding their geographic sphere)
  
• REALTOR® Magazine Online Prospecting Section
  
  Minority homeownership
  
• NAR’s Housing Opportunity Program
  
• NAR’s diversity outreach efforts
  
  Mod squad (modular housing)
  
• NAR Library’s Field Guide to Modular Housing
  
• Manufactured Housing Institute
  
• Modular Building Systems Association
  
  Primacy of the Internet (as a marketing tool)
  
• REALTOR.org technology center page
  
• NAR’s e-PRO Certification for Internet Professionalism
  
• REALTOR® VIP Alliance Program partner Internet Crusade (e-PRO, domain registration)
  
  Second-home craze
  
• REALTOR.org resort and second home specialty center
  
• About resort/second home specialty
  
• NAR Library’s Field Guide to Vacation Homes
  
• Grabbing a ray of sunshine: Alliances spread the second-home boom to practitioners all over, by Robert Freedman, REALTOR® Magazine article, March 2000
  
  Seeing green (green building)
  
• NAR to have first D.C. green building, REALTOR® Magazine Online news, May 20, 2003
  
• Selling energy savings, by Patricia W. Glenn, REALTOR® Magazine article, June 2002
  
• Green housing: It’s no illusion, by Paul Sedan, REALTOR Magazine article, May 2001
  
• How green is your house?by Robert Freedman, REALTOR Magazine Online exclusive, May 2001
  
• U.S. Green Building Council
  
• National Association of Home Builders Research Center, Green Building Program
  
  The size of homes to come
  
• National Association of Home Builders
• National Association of Home Builders Research Center
  
  Smarter office buildings
  
• RealComm, commercial real estate automation conference
  
• CABA, a not-for-profit that promotes advanced technologies for the automation of homes and buildings in North America
  
• www.BacNet.org, site dedicated to providing information on the BacNet protocol for building automation and controls
  
  Sticker shock (E&O insurance cost)
  
• REALTOR VIP® Alliance Program partner  Geo. F. Brown & Sons
  
• Partial list of E&O providers
  
• NAR Library’s Field Guide to E&O Insurance
  
  Teaming up (sales teams)
  
• Top sales teams and solo artists, by Leslie Cummings, REALTOR® Magazine article, September 2003
  
• Should you form a team? by Blanche Evans, REALTOR® Magazine Online, June 2004
  
  Value packaging (affiliated businesses)
  
• RESPA withdrawal opens door, by Robert Freedman, REALTOR® Magazine article, May 2004
  
• What to Do When...You want to tap mortgage origination income, by Arthur J. Barrett, REALTOR® Magazine, July 2004
  
• Real Estate Settlement Providers Council
  
  World wide classroom (online training)
  
• REALTOR® University