On Saturday, the NAR Board of Directors effectively gutted its recently adopted policy of allowing franchisors to index the IDX feeds of their franchisees. The indexing policy, just six months old, made it easier for big franchisors to create national websites with a listings footprint comparable to those of Trulia, Zillow, Frontdoor, HomeFinder.com, Homes.com and [...]
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Friday Flash: The Realtor fight, neighborhood conversations, and local Color
You likely know by now that the NAR has shifted its political activities into high gear with a new “Realtor Party Political Survival Initiative.” This is a reaction to a recent Supreme Court decision that broadened significantly the Court’s long-held view that political money, in effect, equals speech and therefore cannot be limited. The gloves [...]
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Redfin gets its subversive mojo on, releases agent comments on other brokers’ listings
Redfin announced this morning that registered users of Redfin.com can now view notes Redfin agents have made on properties listed by other brokers. In summary: Redfin agents who tour a listing make comments. These comments go first to the buyer client they toured with. If, after two days, these buyers don’t tell Redfin to keep [...]
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Friday Flash: Frontdoor, fuzzy housing math and live burrito-cam
Frontdoor.com rocketed to #2 on the Hitwise version of online real estate’s traffic numbers for January. This was the result of a sweepstakes run by its corporate cousin, HGTV. A few things to note related to this: Frontdoor is an excellent site that has trailed online real estate leaders in audience for the past three [...]
The real estate Value Crisis
“She had a very thin face like the dial of small clock seen faintly in a dark room in the middle of the night when you waken to see the time and see the clock telling you the hour and the minute and the second, with a white silence and a glowing, all certainty and [...]
The passion of the Realtors Property Resource
I find it hard to discuss the RPR these days without a certain wistfulness. Conversations slip into the past tense. Which is a funny thing because the product hasn’t even been released. It is also a sad thing, because the basic idea, and its early manifestation, is so appealing. Am I nuts? Or has the [...]
With it. Get it. On it. Big time.
Friday The NAR show. I could have spent the entire week there. And immersed myself in the chatter and prophetic waxing laced with controversy about real estate’s hottest acronyms. I didn’t. I flew in for the day, enjoyed a bunch of clients and friends, and then left. There were other things, more pressing things – [...]
RPR Madness! NAR unleashes national property database with Cyberhomes
[What follows is my somewhat stream of consciousness take on today's events. This post is a beast. Interested in your thoughts. And please point out where you think I've missed the mark. More will follow.] The NAR has taken over certain technology assets of Cyberhomes from LPS (formerly known as FNRES) in order to bring its [...]
Real estate disintermediation revisited
Disintermediation. Remember that? Back in the late nineties, it’s what everyone was talking about: “the middleman” – Realtors – being taken out by technology. To some, this notion now seems as quaint as its millennial counterpart, the Y2K Crisis. For while putting listings on the Web did change consumer behavior, it did not cut close [...]
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Thanks to Matt Dollinger for passing along this photo of NAR HQ in Chicago…
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