Archive for September, 2007

A fresh perspective on housing’s woes

Click here. Found on Marc Andreessen’s blog.


From the Desk of Marc Davison, CEO of Davison Real Estate

A few months ago, I wrote a column listing with things I would do if I ran a fictitious real estate brokerage company called Davison Real Estate. In past several weeks, I have talked with dozens of brokers reeling from…


It’s Monday – what are you going to do different today?

I walked with my 3 dogs, 4 kids and wife around the block this morning. I passed a few neighbors. Most were too busy doing their own thing to look up and wave. I passed 4 homes for sale. They’ve…


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Franchisors: It’s time to get back into the real estate business

A few weeks ago I gave a presentation at a technology briefing sponsored by a major computer hardware manufacturer. The audience was a small group of executives from a large real estate corporation. I shared my perspective on how mobile…


Lighting up the real estate darkness

I like ideas — good ones, bad ones, ones that escape me. I’m fascinated by the sparks that fly as the ideas light up. I’m blown away by anyone who cultivates ideas. Invests in them. Tests them. Embraces them tightly…


Show and tell

Brokers ask us about blogging all the time. Most have no idea what to do, where to start, or how it could possibly bring them business. For a while, we’d offer long answers about consumer engagement, transparency, the web 2.0…


The End

“”and in the end, the love you make is equal to the love you take” – Lennon/McCartney As the tectonic shift in the housing market grinds beneath our nervous feet, this lyric spins in a loop — the soundtrack to…


Mortgage mailbag

I received this letter in the mail today. Like you, I’ve received thousands of these in the past few years and always throw them out without a second glance. But after weeks of reading about the misery spreading among those…


Zestimating the future value of home value applications

I ran several value estimates of my home a couple mornings ago after reading yet another mind numbing story on the fallout of the credit crisis in the USA Today. I am not planning to sell but I am trying…


Cease and desist

With a bunch of new online real estate companies vying for the Web 2.0 brass ring, we are starting to see a landscape of sites all too similar in look, feel and function. It’s really starting to look like 1998…