Colorado-based Metro Brokers Real Estate, Inc. announces another industry first with a leading edge technical application by contracting with IPTVBoyz for a social media portal using a online video-centric blog. The web-based application moves Metro Brokers into the digital-based PR age through the use of the ever expanding internet based video and blog syndication

June 10, 2008 - Denver, CO. - Two major shifts in the communications world inspired Metro Brokers to take a technology leadership position for their corporate communications. The first product is video. The use of video is still in its infancy, however, video will account for 80 percent of all web traffic by 2010, up from 30 percent today according to industry sources.  The availability of broadband internet access worldwide and the high percentage of end users with multi-media devices, such as the iPhone®, has allowed video to explode in popularity and use. The sensory richness of video makes video communication the new standard in the web society. 

The second communications vehicle is blogging. Blogs, short for weblogs, are a newer type of communication platform with 24/7 availability and excellent search engine placement.  Many real estate companies have been slow to recognize blogs as a powerful communications portal.  Once thought to be the fringe voice, blogs are now a staple of the new emerging media and traditional media houses.   Metro Brokers Real Estate announced that it would be the first large real estate brokerage to use video and blogs as a pivotal communications technology offering.

Metro Brokers use of a Vlog a industry first

As of today, the world internet community can access http://www.MetroBrokersTV.com and view a number of company video categories ranging from their current TV commercials, rich education media, association member leadership interviews, new broker interviews, charity involvement, top producer interviews and breaking company news and announcements.  The benefit to the company members is constant communication through RSS. A blog allows the use of real simple syndication (RSS), which is permission based communication tool that sends all new video blog posts to company subscribers.

"Metro Brokers has based its long term strategy on being the number one real estate technology company and MetroBrokersTV by IPTVBoyz  will definitely set Metro Brokers apart from all  real estate companies," said Maurice (Moe) Giroux, President of Metro Brokers Real Estate. "Our attention to industry trends outside of real estate have indicated that the use of Vlogs (video and blog) is not a trend but a new standard." 

"Our Video Blog application makes it possible for a company to run their own Internet Protocol Television station (IPTV) without the extensive cost of setting up a full blown production studio and crew," said Dirk Freeman, Production Director of IPTVBoyz.  "We also realize that video, not found on the net,  is just useless digital bits and our video syndication and blog aggregation partners make it possible for every piece of video to be found through Search."

Metro Brokers and IPTVBoyz  is the new standard for web 2.0 PR

Metro Brokers is now able to provide to consumers, brokers and industry vendors a transparent and realistic view of their company, people and vision 24/7. Many fortune 500 companies already realize that video is not a cost, but it's a company asset.  The return on investment on video and text pushed to the web has longevity and reach unparalleled to other media sources.  Traditional PR resulted in bylines, quotes and interviews that ended up in the recycle bin. A company armed with video-based blogging has unlimited access to be indexed and found on the web when an inquiring person searches a phrase or subject.   

In addition, the high quality standard of video production and fast turnaround time is a benchmark feature for IPTVBoyz.  Poor quality or amateurish video, audio and production are a huge detriments to a companies image. One of the largest changes within online video spectrum is the increasing production quality and the advent of HD. 

About Metro Brokers Real Estate

Metro Brokers Real Estate, Inc. is an association of independent real estate brokers who specialize in Colorado residential, commercial and investment properties. Metro Broker's 80 office network of 2,000 highly experienced real estate professionals have been helping buyers and sellers make the most of their real estate transactions since 1976 with 32 years of caring, professional service. Unlike most other real estate companies, Metro Brokers, Inc. is actually owned and controlled by its brokers. For more information please visit http://www.MetroBrokersTV.com

About IPTVBoyz

IPTVBoyz is a privately funded media company based in Denver, Colorado, The member partners are able to provide this new synergistic PR tool through combined experience of over 100 years in video production, TV broadcast, Search Engine Optimization, streaming technologies and internet video player technologies. IPTVBoyz  was formed to help small to mid level businesses compete against the large national brands. The company's mission is to ensure that each business has the tools, content and features to position themselves with premiere search placement in their respective business genres. For more information, please visit www.IPTVBoyz.com

Dirk Freeman of IPTVBoyz, 1-303-800-1006, Dirk@IPTVBoyz.com

Hi, I am Mark Eibner, co-founder of IPTVBoyz and part-time talent for BrokerIPTV. BrokerIPTV has been selected as the exclusive video provider for BloodHoundBlog, Unchained Event, being held in Phoenix, May 18, 19 and 20th. This Realtor 2.0, web 2.0 conference is being sponsored by Zillow. What kind of things can you expect out of this years conference, blogging, SEO, Video, internet strategies and of course some pretty hot debates between traditionalists and WEB 2.0 brokers. So tune in daily to BrokerIPTV for daily video blogs, live streams of the event and complete interviews with some top and sharpest web 2.0 brokers in the real estate business. Looking forward to seeing you at this real estate social media event, Thank You.

Despite a slowdown in the nation's economy, Colorado officials are expecting some growth in the next few years.

"Colorado's economy is still doing better than most of the country, but the national economic downturn is expected to creep into our state later this year," said Todd Saliman, director of Gov. Bill Ritter's Office of State Planning and Budgeting.

"However, we believe that the state's position with respect to the energy sector, in particular, will allow for Colorado to weather any impending storm much better than most states," he said.

Thursday, the office released its quarterly economic and revenue forecast for the next five years.

The report showed that employment increased by 2 percent in 2007, with a net increase of 45,500 new jobs. The forecast calls for 1.4 percent job growth in 2008 and 1.8 percent in 2009.

Unemployment dropped in Colorado to 3.8 percent in 2007 - that's the lowest since 2000. The unemployment rate is expected to rise to 4.6 percent in 2008 but drop to 4.3 percent in 2009.

Wage and salary income rose 6 percent in 2007, indicating a relatively strong labor market, growth in the labor force and inflation. The forecast is that wage and salary income will increase 5.5 percent in 2008 and 5.6 percent in 2008.

Evan Dreyer, spokesman for Ritter, said that the governor's office will look at two key figures in the coming years: the unemployment rate and housing starts.

"The unemployment rate has been inching up slowly since December," he said, noting that it rose to 4.2 percent in January. "We ended 2007 with a near- record low. For the year, we were well below the national average (4.6 percent).

An energy boom in the state created jobs in the oil and gas industry, as well as in alternative fuels and technology.

The other indicator that Ritter's office is monitoring is housing starts. "The foreclosure issue that we will continue to watch," Dreyer said.

Originally published 01:06 a.m., March 21, 2008
Updated 01:06 a.m., March 21, 2008

Denver Real Estate Statistics for Multi Million Dollar Homes Sales in the Denver Metro Area are keeping pace and contrary to the doom and gloom crowd, people are still really buying homes!

Well, in case you have not studied the markets for the last 10,000 years. The secret elite at the top, make most their cash by crashing and rebuilding markets or whole countries for that matter. In other words, there is not a whole lot of money to be made unless you make dramatic market swings, and of course, they have that inside information too. In the world of financial markets, by the time most people read the news, it's already too late. And those who read too much of the news are brain washed by the constant CNN or FOX sheeple speak. They get so paralyzed with FEAR, that by the time they read the good news about everything being all rosy, they have missed the boat again.

Metro Denver homes sales in the multi-million dollar range...that is over 2M, have held steady as she goes over 2007 and look to be on track for holding or improving in 2008. The below Denver homes sales statistics were gathered from the Denver Metrolist or MLS. The were all homes and or Condo townhouse that were listed and sold within the last five quarters. Under Contracts were used for second quarter projections in 2008.

You can see that metro Denver market conditions in high-end range of homes is hanging at the 2.8M - price tag. There was a slight dip in the forth quarter of 2007 to 2.45M, however, current under contracts show a list price of 2.9M . Also, you will note the condo sales in the first quarter of 2008 are hanging at 2.8M.

The total number of multi-million dollar total real estate transactions rises and falls per quarter and is expected as seasonal trend. The number of total transactions including homes and condos is UP for the first quarter of 2008. Using the under contract properties for 2008 of 17 units already, seems to be in line to match last year's second quarter total amount of 56.

Metro Denver Multi Million Dollar Home Sales 2007 and 2008

Metro Denver Multi Million Dollar Under Contract 2008

Metro Denver Multi Million Dollar Condo Sales 2007 and 2008

Great Post from Jimmy Kimmel "taxes are due next week. We all hate paying taxes, but without our tax money, many politicians would not be able to afford prostitutes."

I think that says it all.