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Friday Flash: Homes.com, Move/AOL and competing software visions

By Brian Boero | August 19th, 2011 | Filed in: Technology

Homes.com launched something called HomesConnect, which consolidates much of the stuff vacuumed up by Dominion Enterprises a few years back into one platform. This underscores something I’ve seen forming this year: Two distinct views of real estates software’s future. In one view we see real estate technology dominated by large, unified platforms. MarketLeader is going [...]


Friday Flash: The Realtor fight, neighborhood conversations, and local Color

By Brian Boero | March 25th, 2011 | Filed in: Technology

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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Will real estate data save agents?

By Brian Boero | December 16th, 2010 | Filed in: Marketing

“RPR now live in 43 markets” I didn’t even click on the headline when I saw it on Inman.com a few weeks ago. At this point, and previous writings here notwithstanding, I am having difficulty seeing how RPR will change the working lives of agents. But my waning interest has little to do with RPR [...]


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Quick thoughts on the new Realtor.com

By Brian Boero | June 16th, 2010 | Filed in: Technology

Realtor.com released a major site update in beta yesterday. I’m at 37,000 feet as I write this and don’t have much time, but wanted to offer a few quick observations:


The passion of the Realtors Property Resource

By Brian Boero | March 4th, 2010 | Filed in: Marketing

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 [...]


“Productizing” the Realtor mind

By Brian Boero | December 2nd, 2009 | Filed in: Technology

One of most interesting (if misguided) things about the RPR project is the drive to create an online property valuation “Gold Standard.” The RPR team intends to do this by layering Realtors’ street-level assessments of value on top of the algorithmic magic that can be worked with mounds of raw property data. They’re calling it [...]