Random Articles

• 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
• 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.” -
• Real Estate Agents and Dodo Birds Steven and Stephen, the dynamic duo behind Freaknomics have a bit on Real Estate Agents being added to the Endangered Species list in the New York Times. Nothing new to anyone with a little understanding of the real estate market and how the internet has dissolved both travel agents and stock brokers. The more conversations I
• 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