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Your Guide’s recent sales have been split equally between health care professionals and technology providers. Health care seems to be one industry that is relatively healthy despite the woes in the job market in Chicago. Tech executives face a bit more uncertainty, but execs with secure jobs certainly made moves in the fall, taking advantage of the Home Buyer Credits.
- Realtor Bob Darrow, from a blog post on real estate traffic and trends recorded by the Credit Suisse Monthly Survey of Real Estate Agents.
Assuming there are home buyers in your circle of friends and acquaintances, what types of trends are you noticing? In which industries do they work, and where are they looking for homes?
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Attorneys continue to be a strong client industry for me. Doctors, some nurses, teachers. It’s really been all over the board, but off the top of my head, I think fewer of my buyer clients were in the financial industry this year (no traders or financial advisors …that sort of thing.)
a bunch of my friends/coworkers purchased in the last year. we all work in consulting and advertising.
OMG Eric hit the nail on the head. I can’t remember the last time I had a financial services provider as a client. I am guessing that we’ll be getting listings from clients in that profession in 2010.
the ‘financial services’ guys are all smart enough to rent, rather than buy, right now
if you can show me one financial adviser (aka salesperson) or trader that knows how to mange their own money, or how to invest it properly, I will buy you a beer.
brad,
I’ve known a number of savvy financial advisers who’ve done well by themselves and their clients over the years.
They’re not all salesmen. Get to know a good one and you might be able to afford more than beer.