So… I assume there’s still some sort of a raging blogwar going on about Greg Swann, but when the man is right, he’s right. His latest is just some good solid advice: Give your home a blog. Every home for sale should have its own web site. What makes a weblog useful and practical is that … Read more
(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
With everyone focusing on the gloomy residential real estate market, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what’s happening over on the Dark Side of the Force, aka, commercial real estate. CoStar released their Q4 financial results recently, and boy, are they impressive: BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CoStar Group, … Read more
I hate Web 2.0. I mean I hate the term. People throw it around all the time, and it even comes up in conversation at parties: “So, what’s your cute friend Sarah doing?” “Oh she’s doing publicity for this fabulous Web 2.0 company in the dress-swapping community.” “That’s so cool — can you give me … Read more
I don’t normally write much on financial matters connected to real estate, because I recognize it as an area where frankly, I have no real expertise. I know generally how mortgages, CDO’s, subprime and so forth work, but beyond the basics, I get lost. Tanta, over at Calculated Risk, however, does not get lost. In … 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
A cautionary tale from the real estate world: The Fifth Amendment ends saying, “…nor shall private property be taken for public use without just compensation.” In the end, this is private, not public property. The same person that wants to dictate what can and cannot happen on private property, does not want anyone to tell … 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