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[VIP] The Notorious Interview: Skylar Olsen, Kathryn Coursolle, Zillow Research

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In today’s episode of the Notorious Interview, I have a fantastic conversation with a pair of economists from Zillow Research, which publishes an annual Consumer Housing Trends Report.  It is one of the best research studies on what is happening on the ground with buyers, sellers and renters. Ms. Olsen is the Director of Economic … Read more

[VIP] The Notorious Interview: Jarred Kessler, EasyKnock

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In today’s episode of the Notorious Interview, I talk with Jarred Kessler, Founder & CEO of EasyKnock, the most interesting company in our space I had never heard of. I corrected that oversight, obviously, and I thought you should too. EasyKnock is hard to classify: it’s kind of like a blend between a bridge loan … Read more

The Notorious Interview: Bill Fowler, Compass

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A different Interview episode than normal, I speak with Bill Fowler, Sr. Director of Industry Relations for Compass, the tech-brokerage who has been making all kinds of waves in recent years. Normally, I like to use the Interview to introduce people and companies that most of you don’t know about, who are doing interesting things … Read more

[VIP] The Notorious Interview: Mike Maher, Houwzer

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Hot on the heels of the Alex Doubet interview, I’m pleased to give you all an interview with the CEO of yet another innovative W-2 brokerage. Mike Maher is the Co-Founder & CEO of Houwzer, a W-2 based flat listing fee brokerage based in Philadelphia with operations in the Philly Metro and Washington DC Metro … Read more

[VIP] The Notorious Interview: Alex Doubet, Door

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Today’s Notorious Interview is of a super-interesting, super-smart guy many of you probably have never heard of. His name is Alex Doubet, and he is the founder and CEO of Door, a unique brokerage based in Dallas. He is also a VIP Subscriber and a longtime reader of Notorious. Door is an interesting brokerage that … Read more

[VIP] The Notorious Interview: Mark Schacknies, Remine

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I am delighted to present this Notorious Interview of Mark Schacknies, CEO & Co-Founder of Remine, a real estate data and technology company. We discuss MLS data, MLS technology, and what is going on in this tiny-yet-important space of PropTech. Remine has been challenging the incumbents in this space for a while now, and making … Read more

[VIP] The Notorious Interview: John Campbell, Stephens

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I’ve decided that most of the Interview series will be available to VIP members only, because… it takes a good amount of work to put these together. A few, with wider industry implications, will be made public but I think most of these are really of interest to serious industry observers (who I think are … Read more

The Notorious Interview: Chris Drayer, Revaluate

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So a number of you have messaged and written me to say positive things about the two interviews I did with Fred Bin of Zoom Casa and Rick Rudman of Curbio last week. I know I’m a writer first and you come here to read overly lengthy posts about various real estate topics, but I … Read more