1) Google’s new Base service, which enables people to upload content to the Web - similar to self-serve classifieds listing service - will be a big hit and completely rearrange the online listings and lead generation landscape for real estate, marketing and media companies.

2) A cooler housing market will shake tens of thousands of real estate agents out of the business.

3) The U.S. Justice Department’s case against the National Association of Realtors will reach a stalemate, pending another industry-wide lawsuit over the copyright of property listings data.

One way to create bargains in real estate is to make low offers on properties. It’s the old story of buying low and then selling high.

Many successful investors will make a series of lowball offers on different properties, perhaps 10 or more, in the hope of getting just one seller to accept.