Know Thy Market Are you tapping into the power of the HAR.com online Consumer Research Panel to better understand your market and maintain a competitive edge? Here is just one of the valuable survey findings available to HAR members online at http://www.har.com/consumerresearch/.

TREPAC 2013 Ends September 27 HAR TREPAC is in the bottom of the 9th inning for 2013 and we need a HOME RUN!!! Help us make this the best year ever for HAR TREPAC! Invest today and encourage others in your office to do so as well. Staying active in the industry and the knowledge that you gain by investing in TREPAC helps make you the ultimate resource for your clients Check Your Investment Online at www.har.com/trepacmanager Invest Online Now at www.har.com/trepac 2013

(available at http://www.har.com/dispTools.cfm?toolid=42 HAR Tool of the Week Open House Manager (available at http://www.har.com/dispTools.cfm?toolid=42 The HAR Open House manager helps you manage open houses for your clients and yourself. You may email selected open house listings to clients while framed within your HAR member website. You may also select REALTOR® Open Houses for your personal viewing. Features for managing the client side include: Viewing when your prospect viewed the email. Selecting customers/clients from existing Tempo prospects. Adding new clients and previewing the email prior to sending the open house message. Features for the agent side include: Viewing REALTOR® Open Houses on any selected day. Viewing agent remarks and driving directions from the Agent Full Report in Tempo. Previewing and/or printing the list of open houses online.

Weekly HAR Market Stat Whether it's accommodative monetary policy, the promise of less shadowy shadow inventory or increased economic recovery, U.S. housing continues along a path of sustainable growth. Rising prices are drawing otherwise reluctant or previously underwater sellers. And buyers are grateful for any additional supply. Intervention from the Fed may or may not be on the horizon. Nonetheless, there's reason to be confident in positive market longevity. In the Houston region, for the week ending Sept. 1: • New Listings decreased 5.8% to 1,974 • Pending Sales increased 35.1% to 1,773 • Closed Sales increased 7.9% to 2,258

Designate Yourself for Success Accredited Buyer’s Representative (ABR) The Accredited Buyer Representative (ABR) designation is the benchmark of excellence in buyer representation. The Real Estate Buyers Education Council, a council of NAR, awards this coveted designation to real estate practitioners that meet the specified educational and practical experience criteria. The third elective day will cover “Marketing Reboot,” which is approved for eight hours of MCE. In this one-day course, students will revisit marketing fundamentals – branding, relationship marketing – with an emphasis on electronic tools: social media, blogs, Twitter, pods and RSS feeds, search engine optimization (SEO), among other technologies. Sign up today for this opportunity to learn about buyer representation today! COURSE FEE INLCUDES THE TWO-DAY ABR CLASS AND ELECTIVE COURSE. Date: September 23 – 25 Time: 8:30 a.m. – 4:30 p.m. Location: HAR Central Investment: $299 Questions? 713-629-1900 ext. 6 Register at www.har.com/edu