According to a recent report from Borrell Associates, the real estate industry spent more than $7 billion on Web site design and maintenance, an expenditure that is anticipated to grow to more than $11 billion in the next three years.

The web has revolutionized how Americans buy homes. The number of homebuyers using the Web has risen steadily, climbing to 84 percent of all buyers in 2007 (up from 80 percent in 2006), according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR); Supplemental studies reveal that nearly 75 percent of Internet homebuyers drive by a home based on their Web visit. Nearly one out of every three homebuyers first learned online about the home they eventually purchased.

It does not take a rocket scientist to realize that to do well in the real estate business may require that one has a satisfactory online presence – most preferable, their own website. However, having your own website is not enough because most web searchers only search through the first 10 listing in Google. This means that to get noticed your website must show up in Google for the frequently search real estate keywords in your area; for example, Huntsville Alabama real estate, if you live in Huntsville Alabama .

Monday

Realty World South will host a free "Lease to Own" seminar at 1874 Slaughter Road in Madison at 6 p.m. Learn how to improve your credit score and become a homeowner. This seminar is conducted each Monday. Call 325-8500 for reservations.

Tuesday 

Weichert, Realtors - The Executive Group will host a free real estate career seminar each Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the company's office at 2304 S. Memorial Parkway. Call 533-7210.

Thursday 

Huntsville/Madison County Homeownership Alliance will hold a free First Time Homebuyer Fair at the Richard Showers Center, 4600 Blue Spring Road, from 3 to 7 p.m. Learn about down-payment assistance and other financial assistance, and how to obtain a low-cost mortgage. For more info, call 551-1610.

Friday

Madison County Real Estate Investors Association will host two sessions of the new Millionaire Maker Board Game. Have fun and learn how to build wealth. This event will be offered at Crestwood Medical Center's Women's Center, 185 Chateau Drive, on Friday from 6 to 8:30 p.m. and again Saturday from 2 to 4 p.m. Cost is $10 per person or $15 for two. Participants must be at least 15. To register, visit www.MadisonCountyREIA.com or call 829-2304.

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Monday March 24
Realty World South will host a free "Lease to Own" seminar at 1874 Slaughter Road in Madison at 6 p.m. Learn how to improve your credit score and become a homeowner. This seminar is conducted each Monday. Call 325-8500 for reservations.

Weichert, Realtors - The Executive Group will host a free real estate career seminar each Tuesday at 7 p.m. at the company's office at 2304 S. Memorial Parkway. Call 533-7210.

Friday March 28
OSBO will hold a special networking event for Realtors and builders/contractors at The Heritage Club from 2 to 5 p.m. Sponsorships and display tables are available. The cost of sponsorship is $250. Setup will begin at 9:30 a.m.; lunch for sponsors served at noon. RSVP and walk-in registration is from 1:30 to 2 p.m., and the presentation will be 2 to 5. Visit www.osbo.org or e-mail Jim Campbell at jcampbell@osbo.org.

Saturday March 29
Madison County Real Estate Investors Association will host a session in which participants will learn to play the new Millionaire Maker Board Game. This event will be offered at Crestwood Medical Center's Women's Center, 185 Chateau Drive, from 9 to 11 a.m. Cost is $10 per person or $15 for two. Participants must be age 15 or older. To register, visit www.MadisonCountyREIA.com or call 829-2304.

April 5
Madison County Real Estate Investors Association will host "Flipping for Massive Profit." This all-day seminar at the Von Braun Center East Hall, beginning at 9 a.m., will feature "Flip This House" star Paul Esajian. Preregistration is required; lunch provided. Cost is $39.95 for REIA members, $49.95 for nonmembers. Visit www.FlipThisHouseHuntsville.com or call 829-2304.

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Rudulph-Brander report, the Birmingham Alabama real estate report, indicated that the number of Birmingham new homes sold in February improved to 282 from 240 in January. The value of those homes was $62.7 million, an conservative increase from $61.6 million from the preceeding month

Bart Fletcher, executive vice president for the Greater Birmingham Association of Home Builders, stated that February's results represent an improvement at a time when there have been lots of new homes on the market.

In January, the number of new homes on the market declined, which analysts point to as a positive sign. The absorption rate - measuring the time it would take to sell all new homes on the market at the average selling pace - improved to 7.3 months from 8.4 in January.

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Now is the time to Buy a home in Alabama. Vist Alabama mortgage : www.alabamasmortgage.com for quick mortgage information for you Alabama home loan

If you are in the Alabama real estate business and know your way around online, you will appreciate the kindness, yes, kindness, of webmasters who voluntarily or involuntarily link to your website.

The internet is now the number one source for real estate marketing, trumping yards signs and newspaper advertising. The importance of having a substantial and user friendly online presence is paramount. Knowing this, many realtors are quickly jumping in the fray, building websites and posting home listing to real estate portals like realtor.com, homegain.com, Yahoo real estate and a host of other real estate online entities that have blossomed within the last 5 years.

Unfortunately, having a real estate presence is not enough. Most people in the market to buy a home will usually search through websites listed on the first page of Yahoo, or Google, or the search engine of their choice. Being on the first page is critical to drawing traffic to your website and converting online searchers into customers.

If you are a residence of Huntsville Alabama or your home is located in Madison county area chances are you are not stridently affected by the mortgage fiasco that now holds the financial markets in a blizzard.

However, if you own one of the one in 1,758 homes, or 0.06 percent of the North Alabama homes that are in foreclosure or facing foreclosure, there might be some solution to your problem.

Talk to your mortgage credit or loan company and renegotiate the loan. Banks do no want your house; they want your money. Ask for an extension of the loan or a month or two grace- period.

If you have bad credit or little credit some Huntsville mortgage lenders or banks are issuing FHA loans for customers with credit glitches that result in lower credit scores. In addition, the interest is affordable given that interest rates are gyrating around 6 percent and construction cost easing, NOW is the time to purchase a home, refinance or to renegotiate you Alabama mortgage loans.

Visit Alabama mortgage for a list of mortgage companies that operate in Alabama and the daily mortgage rates.

Also study the Huntsville real estate market. Visit sites like www.besthomesofhuntsville.com or www.huntsvillepr.com  for Huntsville Alabama real estate market news

In a large part, Huntsville Alabama real estate market has weathered the mortgage foreclosures storms that are now raking and riving the nation. Even in other parts of Alabama, like in Jefferson County, whose financial center is Birmingham, the situation is dire. The county is now considering on filing bankruptcy to settle a financial crisis surrounding $3.2 billion of sewer debt.

In the Huntsville / Madison county area, however, housing prices have steadily appreciated, but not with a balloon effect like in other parts of the country, such as in California, which tellingly suffered, and is still suffering from the real estate crisis. In the last quarter of 2007 one of every 194 homes, or 0.52 percent, in the U.S. was facing foreclosure, according to real estate industry figures. In Madison County, it was one of every 1,758 homes, or 0.06 percent.

Rhea Perry’s Real Estate Days conference provides practical real estate investing education by teaching how to look at today’s soft real estate market from an investor’s perspective.

Perry shares that now is the best time in all of history to learn how to invest in real estate and the Internet is today’s tool for investing.

RealEstateDays.com features world-class instructors presenting a wide variety of real estate concepts and training geared for anyone interested in learning to invest in real estate using the Internet, including families, homeowners, teens, and real estate investors.

If you are in the real estate market either as a commercial property investor or you are just looking for a home in Alabama, Huntsville offers a rich choice of properties at fantastic prices: from enticing 3 bedroom homes to prestigious, sophisticated mansions; from secluded vacation retreats to exquisite condos and townhouses with graceful curb appeal.

Come to Huntsville and witness for yourself the amazing real estate growth that the city has engendered. While the prices of homes have fallen as much as 23.4 percent nationally and 16.9 percent in Alabama, for January 2007, in comparison with the year before, Huntsville homes sales has been steady. Thanks to the Base Realignment and Closures ( BRAC ) that is expected to draw over 5000 jobs to the Huntsville Alabama area in the next couple of years, mainly from scientist and army personnel from Virginia and Georgia.