Recently, I found out that the Pinnacle Group Project — something I had heard rumors about for a few months — had officially launched. What the hell is Pinnacle? From the website (the URL is “thechangechampions.com” by the way): A two year intensive course of study for Association Leadership and Management. This program includes: Eight … Read more
In part 1, we just looked at one person’s view of what Big Data means for corporations, then tried to apply it to real estate. I’ve had a couple of conversations about it with some very smart industry people since posting that, and am trying to wrap my head around the whole concept. The … Read more
I’m pretty certain this is going to be an obsession for me for the next few weeks. So as I’m wont to do, I’ll think out loud on these pages what these incredible insights might mean for real estate. The “this” is both the video above and this blogpost on The Economist’s Schumpeter blog. The … Read more
I’ve been really busy the last few days, but did not see anyone in the real estate media world — even bloggers like me — pick up on this extraordinary story: Three members of the Greater Las Vegas Association of Realtors on Tuesday sued the trade association, its board of directors and its immediate … Read more
One of the guys I respect most in this business — indeed, one of the guys I learned the most from just by reading his excellent blog, MLS Tesseract — is Brian Larson of Larson, Sobotka. Brian was a key player in the creating of IDX back in the late 90’s and probably has … Read more
So that whole Austin IDX kerfuffle is back in the news again, courtesy of Inman: A contingent of Austin Realtors say listing agents should be clearly identified when brokers and agents publicize each other’s listings on their websites. With two of the city’s prominent luxury brokers leading the charge, they’ve asked the Austin Board of … Read more
Last year, I wrote that Realogy’s numbers looked pretty good to me, despite the fact that Realogy had lost $237m in Q1 of 2011. I figured I might as well dip back into that water since I’m interested in my old corporate home (I started my real estate career at Coldwell Banker Commercial), and well… I … Read more
Jeff Corbett, my good friend and former partner at 7DS Associates, recently penned a fantastic call to arms at the RETSO blog in which he got into some depth about the concept of an Open Source MLS: As a self described ‘Agent of Change’ around the real estate and mortgage space, I’ve sat in the … Read more
A few weeks back, Bill Lublin and I engaged in a spirited debate about the future of the Association, stemming from this post of mine from March. Bill’s initial response is here. Well, my post then became the basis for my presentation at RETSO, which gave me impetus to expand on the topic. During … Read more