Excerpt from: Real Estate Industry Leader's Roundtable
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| January 08, 2008 | | "Real Estate Trends to Watch" | Use of the Internet, which has opened a vault of information, makes today's real estate consumers much better educated than in the past.  Stefan Swanepoel is widely recognized as a leading visionary on trends and change in the real estate industry. He has authored thirteen books, whitepapers and reports including the Amazon.com bestseller, Real Estate Confronts Reality, the sequel Real Estate Confronts the Future and the Swanepoel 2007 TRENDS Report. His academic accomplishments include a bachelor's degree in science, a master's degree in business economics and diplomas in arbitration, mergers & acquisitions, real estate, computer science and marketing.
Stefan serves as Chairman and CEO of RealtyU Group, Inc., the largest career development company in the real estate industry, educating over 350,000 agents every year. In his real estate interview at Real Estate CyberSpace Radio he discusses the following real estate information: Web 2.0 - The term signifies the second generation of Internet activity; the first generation, beginning in the mid 1990s, involved the restricted use of web sites by real estate agents to present information in "library" fashion.
- Dotcom technology that went underground after the dotcom crash has resurfaced in the last two years in applications that allow people to use the Internet to interact and transact.
- Web 2.0 represents e-commerce in its totality with bigger broadband, cheaper hardware and open source-software.
- The Internet is taking over the real estate transaction and will reshape the industry completely.
In this briefing he also covers the following useful real estate topics: - Changing Trends in Real Estate
- Legacy from 2000-2005
- Challenge for Associations
- Globalization Tend
- Branding
- Keeping Pace with Consumers
- Business Models for the Future
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