New Model for Real Estate? Let's Try an Older Idea.

Pat Kitano at Transparent Real Estate has an interesting post speculating on what the future of the real estate industry might look like, by taking a look-see at the finance world. If one subscribes to the idea that a real estate transaction is basically matching capital with opportunity, and that the transactional process has become … Read more

New Model for Real Estate? Let’s Try an Older Idea.

Pat Kitano at Transparent Real Estate has an interesting post speculating on what the future of the real estate industry might look like, by taking a look-see at the finance world. If one subscribes to the idea that a real estate transaction is basically matching capital with opportunity, and that the transactional process has become … Read more

The Obsession of Real Estate with Web 2.0

InmanTV has a 46 minute video of a panel discussion at RealEstateConnect ’08 from New York of a group of industry luminaries called “25 Things You Must Do to Web 2.0 Your Company”. It’s… moderately interesting, and I do recommend checking it out. But what I don’t get personally is why the real estate brokerage … Read more

More Silliness from Real Estate Connect

The Inman Real Estate Connect 2008 is a treasure trove of silly statements, as it pertains to real estate marketing. Here’s a short video entitled Marketing Advice for Realtors. There’s actually some guy that says, “It’s about blogging, all about blogging.” One nice woman says the buzzwords like Web 2.0, participate in Zillow and Trulia, … Read more

Hello World

I like blogging, from time to time.  Since I am now working at a company that doesn’t have enormous legal departments and such wanting to look over my shoulders about what I do in my personal time, on my personal blog, I can get into things that interest me — and likely only me. Most … Read more