(Image from Flickr.com, by MarkyBon) There must be some sort of a zeitgeist (literally, “time spirit”) going around the RE.net, like some sort of a benign virus, on the topic of “Web 2.0” — what it is, what it is not. I just posted on Web 2.0, only to see Louis Cammarosano from HomeGain, and … Read more
Joel Burslem at FOREM (mildly) puts the hammer down on Seth Godin’s SquidZipper: I think he (and Squidoo) may just be a little late to the party on this one. I’m just not sure Agents really need yet another place to blog hyperlocally. And Squidoo, for all its promise as a destination for user generated … Read more
One of the more interesting articles I’ve read recently from a mainstream publication comes from The Atlantic. Christopher Leinberger, a scholar and a real-estate developer (not sure I’ve ever seen those two terms together like that, but he is a professor of urban planning at UMich and a real-estate developer), writes about the possibility that … Read more
It appears that Zillow has broken the 100,000 real estate agent milestone: Sometime last Friday, real estate agent number 100,000 (yes, one hundred thousand!) registered on Zillow and posted a listing for sale in Niceville, Florida. I’d like to say; “Welcome to Zillow!” to Jamee Graff (pictured at left.) Jamee is a Realtor with The … Read more
I realized that my first few posts on this brand new blog have been… a tad negative. While I certainly have no interest in joining some echo-chamber gabfest about how wonderful technology X is for real estate, and how if we just learned how to connect, really, really connect, then everything would be hunky dory, … Read more
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
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