Trevor Smith’s answer to Dual Agency? Let the buyer represent himself, and give him the commission regularly paid to the Buyer’s Agent. (Granted, this would still leave the buyer relatively unprotected, but at least if something goes bad, its his own fault and not the agents). Your obvious question is, “Where are the customary apostrophes […]
Search Results: “redfin” (page 23 of 26)
We found 390 results for your search.
Chris writes: I’m looking to get into real estate after i graduate in a couple of weeks but i have a couple of questions that i’m looking to get answered, appreciate your help. If all real estate brokers in an area generally charge the same fee for selling a house, how do real estate agents […]
…is at TransparentRE. I can’t tell who won, so I’m left with the assumption that Kris Berg did not win, either with Sensible Flats and Social Responsibility or Houses Grow on Trees – Redfin Continues Quest for World Domination. O, cruel fortune! Sadly, Jeff Brown, with An Example — How To Answer A Client’s Question, […]
As Teri continues her march toward the prize and is no doubt putting the finishing touches on her acceptance speech, I have reached a milestone of sorts myself. It has officially been five months and one day since my smiling likeness was added to the sidebar of the Bloodhound. Why choose this random milestone to […]
I have news, but some of it is getting a little stale. My apologies. I have been buried, not that this is unusual. As Kris Berg reports in her inimitable way, Redfin has relaunched, rebranded and all but reinvented itself, establishing a beachhead in Boston in the process. As far as I can tell, the […]
Do you know what the most common name in America, or perhaps the world, is? Undisclosed Recipient. From another inductee into the Realtor&174; Hall of Shame, yesterday I received a most exciting offer. “Mr. Realtor”, as he calls himself, had this to say: When I was in the trenches, I always tried VERY hard to […]
I have a tough time with major holidays like Easter. Say the Mass, do the eggs and candy with the kids, choke down some desiccated ham — then what? It would be a relief to run to the net to read, but, of course, everyone else is doing the same damn things — some more […]
Dave Barry sues Realtor associations. He has been suing Realtor associations for years. I don’t know that anyone could say that he sues Realtor associations for a living because he almost always loses. And it is hard to imagine that any lawyer who had a pot to piss in would keep doing the same stupid […]
Should we say goodbye to the half-assed listing? Mike Price: Today Buyside has announced an ABA, (affiliated business arrangement) whereby any homeowner can list a home in the MLS free of charge. It’s called IggysHouse.Com. Interesting branding, I couldn’t find anything on their site that explained the moniker. Could be they just got tired of […]
Every crazy person that works with us, we go crazy for them. I finally got around to listening to the latest installment of the Glenn Kelman show, a video podcast by Robert Scoble (and posted on Sellsius). In all fairness, it wasn’t a complete waste of my time. I was able to learn or deduce […]
Last week, I wrote about my objections to webloggers being regarded as “the press”. My post was interesting, I hope, but the comments were fascinating (by which device I commend you thither). But wait. There’s more. An important reason not to regard — or to affect to regard — webloggers as “the press,” is simply […]
This is me in today’s Arizona Republic (permanent link): Databases fall short of needs at realty.bots Realogy, the giant, publicly traded conglomerate of big-name brokerages, recently announced a deal whereby it will feed all of its listings to realty.bots, Trulia.com and Google Base. That’s a mouthful. First, what’s a realty.bot? A realty.bot is an Internet […]
We’re listing Thursday, and it’s been long enough since we’ve done one of these Grand Opera listings that I have a lot of new stuff to invent from scratch. Ideas are easy, it’s execution that’s hard. The sign and the collateral cards are built and being printed. We’re playing with a card that plays off […]
I’ve been sitting on a post from Jeff Corbett, The X-Broker, for a few days. Jeff Argues that Realty.bots will eliminate buyer’s agents. This actually ties in with recent announcements that major brokerages will be feeding listings to Realty.bots like Trulia.com and Google base. I get the idea Jeff thinks these are good things. I […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
I interviewed Lenn Harley of Homefinders.com, a buyer’s brokerage in Maryland and Virginia (DC suburbs). Lenn is one of the true pioneers in online real estate brokerage. She figured out the power of internet marketing for real estate services while redfin.com’s Glenn Kelman was marketing data servers and zillow.com’s Lloyd Frink was convincing Bill Gates […]