If you’re not reading Matt Ferrara, the extremely intelligent, entertaining and hyper master of Matthew Ferrara & Company, then you’re missing out on some of the most fun readings that can be had about technology and real estate. He’s very insightful on a range of issues, as he works with some of the top companies … Read more
The NAR-DOJ settlement is the gift that keeps on giving. To a blogger at least. Well, to a blogger that happens to be interested in such an obscure and unimportant topic. 🙂 The latest piece of information is throwing me from confusion directly into bizarro-land. NAR released a “Special Report” in which it announced that … Read more
The NAR-DOJ Settlement is news outside of our little RE.net corner of the blogosphere. One of the grand poobahs of the blogosphere, Jeff Jarvis of Buzzmachine, exults in a post entitled, “Take That, 6 Percenters!”. Why, he’s positively leaping with joy: The monopolistic hold big real estate agents have had on information — on access … Read more
I’m seriously up to my eyeballs in my dayjob (plus, I have to go to my second job of raising two little boys under the age of three after my dayjob — this second job is a LOT HARDER than my dayjob, I have to say…) but I had to emerge and say a word … Read more
Should the Big Brands in real estate start blogging? Joel Burslem over at FOREM thinks so: Even with its obvious bias, the blog is actually a fantastic resource for anyone interested in staying on top of the beer wars. Several years ago I worked for Molson, before it became Molson Coors, so the brewing industry … Read more
If you own a condo, or if you’re just interested in the kind of really top-notch writing that is possible on RE.net, head on over to RCG and check out Ardell’s post on Condo Reserve Studies. I own a condo, and I have to say, that was some really good information that I intend to … Read more
In a recent post, I complained about the dearth of data when it comes to talking about international real estate. Even though I was a bit cheeky, Simon Baker of REA Group actually posted a comment on that with some actual estadistica: For example, around 12% of the traffic to our Australian site (www.realestate.com.au) comes … Read more
FYI, Millward Brown released their annual Top 100 Brands report recently with some interesting findings for the brand marketer. You can see the report here (PDF). For our purposes, however, let me limit the observation to this question: Guess what industry is wholly absent from the Top 100 Brands list? -rsh
As most denizens of the Re.net know, there was a recent kettlestorm (tempest in a teapot) around some mean and nasty things said by some blogger at Redfin. Glenn Kelman, the CEO of Redfin, took immediate action and posted an eloquent appeal for harmony and peace. Glenn — you’re a class act, and a brilliant … Read more