[PROMOTION] The 7DS Capital Q2/2020 Report Is Published + Excerpt

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

Uber Loses in Court: California AB5 and Relevance to Real Estate

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

Redfin vs. Realogy: The Key Trend Beneath Different Results Q2/2020

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

Will COVID Finally End Local School Districts?

THE hot topic in my small cul-de-sac over Wednesday night happy hour is whether schools will ever come back. Here in Las Vegas, the Clark County School District will be going online-only to start the school year in August. There are real conflicted feelings among parents in my neighborhood, and I assume it’s the same … Read more

Is a Compass-Keller Williams Merger In the Works?

[UPDATED WITH RESPONSE FROM COMPASS] This will be a brief one, but it’s so interesting I had to share. I just got off the phone with a very senior executive at a major national brokerage who relayed a rumor that he or she has been hearing from other senior executives throughout the industry that the … Read more