What makes you unique? I’m not referring to your eleventh toe or your ability to recite the Arabic alphabet backwards. That’s not unique – that’s plain odd. Why do clients want to work with you? What makes you better than the rest of the pack? I ask this question based upon the comments I received […]
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That’s a screen shot of the user interface of the beta version of the mapping software I talked about on Friday. This version: Creates a Google Maps KML file from a list of street addresses Assigns a user-selectable map marker to those addresses Optionally creates a folder on the file server for that address — […]
Over at Redfin, we’ve been wondering plenty what the world will look like after the Great Recession. It feels as though we’re falling and falling, like Alice in Wonderland, with no idea what strange new world awaits us at the bottom of this very deep downturn. What will the Internet be like? How will venture […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
I recorded this webinar on March 11, 2009. The AUDIO IS HERE and will open in a new window. Listen along and click through the links as I discuss them: The zero-down loan limits for California counties How a purchase price, above the VA loan limit, might not require a 20-30% down payment VA downpayment […]
Glenn Kelman’s recent Call to Arms brought to light for me the two paradigms that exist within the realm of transacting real estate – the traditional broker/agent-centric view and the evolving consumer-centric view. Ultimately both paradigms attempt to better serve the consumer, however, the perspectives are very different. Glenn’s post queries why traditional brokers, i.e […]
Why, in an industry in which customer service is one of only two ways to set yourself apart, have brokers been so wary of measuring customer satisfaction? It isn’t because agents don’t care. I’ve never met a Realtor who didn’t care about his customers. In fact, when we talked about Redfin’s customer satisfaction goals last […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
RE BarCamp Seattle has a time and a date. From Todd Carpenter: Rich Jacobson and Brad Andersohn from Active Rain, along with Drew Meyers from Zillow have established the basics. A date and venue. February 13 at Zillow Headquarters. This happens to follow a Bloodhound Unchained preview event held the day before, also at Zillow […]
This is the front and back face of a door-hanger we have going out in high-equity neighborhoods starting January 3rd. In most of Phoenix, for now, listing is essentially limited to short sales and lender-owned homes, so most of our time this year will be devoted to buyers. But if this card — or variations […]
About once a week, someone asks Redfin who built our real estate search site (sometimes they don’t ask, they just take). Since we built our site on our own, we can’t recommend a development partner, but we can offer advice to other brokers building MLS-powered sites. And our first suggestion would be to bring your […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
I’m tickled pink with this announcement. Sherry Chris, CEO of Better Homes and Garden Real Estate will be the keynote speaker for the Bloodhound Blog Unchained Online Marketing Conference. Sherry has worked in real estate brokerage since 1980. She’s worked for Royal Le Page, Real Living, and Prudential California. She was the Chief Operating Officer […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
I know your secret. Honestly…I do. You aren’t knocking the ball out of the park, regardless of your blogging effort. You play around on Twitter, Facebook, Active Rain, and might even comment on Bloodhound Blog. You’re probably REALLY smart and can’t believe that you’re having problems in business. I know you are; I’ve read most […]
I have been thinking alot lately about RE Web 2.0, particularly in light of the recent news regarding Redfin and Zillow’s current layoffs. Greg also recently posted regarding the current state of the Realty.bots. “Indeed. We have seen the future of real estate marketing — and it is us.*” I am not entirely convinced it […]
CNET: Real-estate sites had some tough times last week. First, Redfin, an online brokerage for residential real estate, announced that it was laying off 20 percent of its staff, then Zillow, a service that delivers home values and lists sales, announced that it was forced to lay off 25 percent of its workforce. But Trulia, […]
The market crunch has hit the Seattle real estate scene hard this week. First there was Redfin announcing it was laying off 20% of its employees earlier this week and today we get Zillow’s announcement that they’re cutting 40 jobs (roughly 25%). You can read about it on the Zillow blog.
I have been pondering something all weekend and now Greg’s post about Redfin’s layoff has changed my focus even further. Please allow me to explain: Saturday morning: I get an email from a blogger and friend telling me to check my email. In it comes a link to this post. The post indicates that Trulia […]