Unless you’re in the MLS space of the residential real estate industry, you probably did not know that the MLS Standards Workgroup of the NAR MLS Technology and Emerging Issues Advisory Board released an Interim Report. In fact, you probably didn’t know that there was such a thing as a MLS Standards Workgroup. Well, there … Read more
It’s Friday afternoon, and my brother is landing in Las Vegas soon, so I’m outta here! But first, wanted to briefly discuss a new T3 Insight from T3 Sixty: “Expanding the American Dream.” It’s a new monthly article from the good folks over at T3 Sixty and this first one is on a topic on … Read more
Inman News has a couple of articles on the RE/MAX Broker Owner Conference going on right now. The first is on Dave Liniger, the founder of RE/MAX and first ballot Hall of Famer, giving advice on surviving recessions, and the second is on Nick Bailey, Chief Customer Officer, talking about how real estate is in … Read more
Please forgive the promotional sales pitch, but frankly, I’ve spent the last six months of my life setting things up to publish this… so I can’t quite contain my excitement. The short to-the-point story (very un-Notorious): The 7DS Capital Q2/2020 Residential Real Estate Report is finished and available. It is, if I do say so … Read more
As longtime readers know, I have often written about the issue of misclassification of employees as independent contractors, since that is the key linchpin of contemporary real estate practice. For example, you can start here: On California’s New Gig Economy Law: Don’t Relax Just Yet and just google the rest. So this is a brief … Read more
Thanks to the research I’ve been doing for the Q2 Report (releasing soon, I swear!), I kind of figured that RE/MAX was going to have a mediocre quarter. And there was a light at the end of the tunnel. I suppose that light still exists but… I’m trying to make sense of the disaster that … Read more
You take the blue pill – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill – you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. – Morpheus, The Matrix Let me be honest here — I’ve been saying more … Read more
Let me get this quick hitter out, as the numbers posted by EXPI for Q2/2020 are awesome. I mean, they just killed it. There’s no two ways about that, right? But you don’t come here to get just surface analysis; that’s available elsewhere. So while I think EXPI had a fantastic Q2, and frankly, a … Read more
I’ve decided to change up how I go about analyzing the quarterly earnings reports from the five public companies in residential real estate. Part of it is that I’ve started a new investor-focused set of products and services (contact me if you want more information) but the other part is that the old way of … Read more