Bill on Marketing

My physician acquaintance from England cringes when he comes to America and sees ads on the Telly for prescription medications. He does not like pharmaceutical companies ‘going over the head’ of the doctor and influencing which drugs the patient uses. I often wondered why so much money was spent on this from of advertising, until I looked at a recent chart from the excellent HARDintelligence website. This is the power of branding! I have heard many of these names, and I suspect you have as well. I’m not too hung up on the ‘ethical’ part of this equation, but some of you might have different notions on this issue.

La'Cee Talks Lot Shortages

Deanna Sihon from New Home Trends sent us this interesting chart showing the relationship between home prices, sales and remaining months supply. As you might suspect, lot supply for homes priced under $500,000 show only 2.9 – 4.3 months supply left. For an easier to read copy of this chart, contact d.sihon@newhometrends.com.

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