You may have noticed I am a big advocate of putting real estate market information into the hands of consumers. During most of the boom years, buyers and sellers made life-changing decisions based on thin slices of information. A few…
Archive for February, 2009
No, it’s not okay
The late morning silence that typically pervades my home was broken by expletives emanating from my bedroom. From my study, I yelled, in a similarly frantic tone, if all was OK. My wife responded, “No, all is definitely not OK!”…
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Zillow turns three, escapes easy asessment
Zillow turned three last week. I totally missed it until I ran across Simon Baker’s post yesterday, which lays out some astute observations about what the young company means. People ask me about Zillow all the time. What’s the strategy?…
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This gives new meaning to the term full disclosure…
… and takes the idea of transparency to an entirely new level. Courtesy of Barry Stone and Jim Turner, President of NAHI.
A little broker website sucess story (and desperate wake-up call for big brokers)
We’ve received a ton of great feedback on the “Top Ten Real Estate Brokerage Websites in America” report we published with Real Trends back in October. Brokers big and small have come out of the woodwork to share their stories…
Lots of big news yesterday
It’s been an eventful 36 hours in the world of technology and real estate. In case you missed it: Google launched Latitude, a service that lets users identify their location, and that of their friends, on a mobile phone. We’ve…
Buyers stretch the boundary of real estate blogging
Well, it’s a blog — technically. Newman’s own is the newly launched diary of a young couple – Nora Krug and Michael Newman – who are proclaimed members of the “highly discriminated against minority – renters,” and their pursuit of…
Brokers caught between a rock and a virtual hard place
It began innocently enough. A broker sent me a link hoping to get my thoughts on his new website. When Brian or I get these requests we’ll scan the site quickly and, if time permits, respond with some quick observations….
Real estate lessons from the newspaper nosedive
I caught this on boingboing this morning: It’s kinda funny. But it also reminded me that newspapers, now on the precipice of oblivion, were actually pretty quick to jump on the Internet. This piece is but one example. Newspapers were…
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