Random Articles

• Three Thoughts on Demand Supplying Itself “So what do you do when the deer have guns, You get into the ammunition business.” - Gordon Borrell “Attention tuning will reduce RSS overload but not noise to signal.” - Steve Gillmor “[Real Estate] Sellers and buyers can figure out pricing via Zillow; they can bid via Redfin; they can list via PropertyShark or Craigslist.” -
• Property History & Comments - Another Reason for Real Estate Agents to Blog There’s been a few parties interested in our house, I’m surprised to learn from our agent how unstructured, the agent-to-agent feedback process is. Sounds like the listing agent has to initiate the contact with the showing agent, rather than the showing agent providing it by default. As a seller, I want to know what prospective buyers
• Rooting For Redfin “While companies like Zillow and Trulia fight for the online table scraps otherwise known as advertising revenue, Redfin is busy pushing the fat guy out of the chair and taking his seat at the table.”- Aneil, PostBubble.com In TopofthePod #13, Mark and Rob ask which media will get disrupted after the movie industry. I’m saying real
• Wanted - Real Estate Agents to Blog Before I bought my current place, Jen and I talked with a handful of real estate agents. We didn’t purchase from any of them. In general, they didn’t feel authentic, connected, credible. Felt like the stereotypical used car salesman. With a housing boom like this - I don’t blame them. Problem is, demand won’t always
• Zillow.com First Impressions Zillow.com launched today, and since our place is still on the market, I thought I’d check what Zillow’s estimate for 2701 31st Ave NE was. Huh, Zillow puts the marker above the 189,900 we started the listing at. Cool. Overall, the site is zippy and filled w/ ajax-y goodness (and I can therefore forgive the initial