I didn’t realize earlier that the great interviews Dustin Luther got with Marty Frame and Alex Chang that I commented on here and here were of a series. Coz, I’m a RE.net newbie. They’re all worth a read. His latest is no exception. He got some great answers from Peter Flint, CEO of Trulia.com (total … Read more
This being election season, I suppose it’s inevitable that we’ll see politics infecting every conversation, including those on real estate and marketing. As a fairly longtime veteran of the political blogosphere, I want to keep the focus just on real estate, marketing and technology. But this has to be addressed, because I fear that we’ll … Read more
Move, Inc. — the folks behind Realtor.com and Top Producer — held its Q4 2007 earnings conference call recently. The transcript is available on Seeking Alpha. I think it’s well worth your time to check it out in full. Move did $286M in 2007, vs. $280M in 2006. Considering the shape that the real estate … Read more
This is not good news: After suffering a beating from their exposure to home loans, banks and securities firms are about to take their lumps from office towers, hotels and other commercial real estate. And the losses could last longer than those from the subprime shakeout. As the economy wobbles and financing costs rise because … Read more
This is not good news: After suffering a beating from their exposure to home loans, banks and securities firms are about to take their lumps from office towers, hotels and other commercial real estate. And the losses could last longer than those from the subprime shakeout. As the economy wobbles and financing costs rise because … Read more
when you told them that you were going to pursue being a real estate agent? I’ve never been one, but I have started my own company, and this post really resonated with me. But the most interesting thing that came out of our conversation that day was this…my friend said that a co-worker former co-worker … Read more
Kudos to Trulia for this: Trulia Voices is one of the most popular parts of our site. Our rapidly growing community has done a great job asking and answering real estate questions. Today, we’re excited to announce the release of our RSS feed widget for your Trulia Voices Answers. You’ll now have the ability to … Read more
Redfin has one of the best corporate blogs not just in real estate, but in…well, business. Posts like this are the reason why. Glenn Kelman takes the Freakonomics guys to task (gently, as is his wont) for relying on bad sample set to conclude that brokers have little to no value. Stephen Dubner and Steven … Read more
I just ran across this fantastic website (h/t Instapundit). Carlust is such a great name for it as well. I really like Chris Hafner’s writing style as well — compact, personable, totally on-point. Great blog writing, IMHO. It works beautifully for cars. I know it can’t possibly work as beautifully for houses, since cars are … Read more