I’ll be spending all day today and tomorrow attending a pair of local real estate events. Today is the Pacific Northwest Housing Summit, at which a distinguished panel of industry insiders will be discussing the current market, the future of the market, and probably a bunch of sales tactics for sellers of various real estate services to make as much money as they can in any market.
Among the “Dignitaries and Special Guests” (that’s the language straight from the program) presenting today are a variety of economists, mortgage, title, escrow, and of course salespeople, including J. Lennox Scott, to whom Jillayne has promised she will personally introduce me.
I’ll be reporting later today or tomorrow on what Lennox and the other prognosticators here today are saying about where the market is headed (I bet we can all make a pretty good guess about what they’ll be saying).
Tomorrow’s event is the Seattle Real Estate BarCamp, which is free and open to absolutely anyone. I attended this last year, and it was definitely interesting.
The thrust of the event seems to be focused on real estate agents and other industry professionals connecting with each other and sharing strategies for using the internet and social media, but the event is mostly unstructured, and anyone can hold a session during the day on basically any real estate related topic.
If you’ve got anything that you’d like me to pass on to the industry insider crowd, drop it in the comments here. Also, you are welcome to come join me tomorrow at the Seattle Center Northwest Rooms if you have any interest in spending all day with a bunch of agents and listening to them try to figure out how to connect to consumers and what they want. Or just come back here sometime early next week and read my report.