We’ll see. But I count two hits in two at-bats, an excellent start. Similar features, but Zorro’s gone home to Madrid. Blogrolled. Technorati Tags: blogging, disintermediation, real estate, real estate marketing
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Displeased, perhaps, that outfits like Redfin.com draw all the negative attention, Trulia Blog asks: Does the MLS continue to believe that fascist dictatorships work? Inasmuch as an MLS system is a mutually-voluntary membership organization composed of self-selected volunteers, each of whom voluntarily agrees to abide by a set of rules voluntarily established by the membership […]
Jim Cronin at The Real Estate Tomato waxes philosophical, wondering, Is Big Brother Dead? A stray thought to the contrary: Panem et circenses? The Realty Bloggers have a smart reflection on the slow but on-going ramping up of on-line real estate vendors. There are two fun developments in our friend Richard Riccelli’s trial-by-FSBO-fire. First, he […]
Altos Research on Redfin.com and other real estate business models: Sales guru Jeffery Gitomer puts it this way, “if you have to compete on price, You Suck!” We all invoke financial services as the analog for real estate. What isn’t commonly noted is that as technology swept through the financial services biz, two things happened: […]
From a comment here, here is the full context of Marlow Harris’s remarks to the New York Times: “The only complaints I hear about are those noted on the official Redfin blog or talked about by their CEO in newspapers. As I mentioned in my previous email, they have such a tiny -.00001% of the […]
Notes at random: Safari is saving the .kml files as *.kml.xml, which has to be manually corrected before Google Earth will eat them. Everything works fine in MSIE on Windows — although the sentence as a whole is an oxymoron. AgentEarth.com has my vote for coolest gross concept — with caveats. As in: Google Earth […]
Act I — Why Realtors hate discount listings… People think ordinary on-the-ground Realtors hate discount listings because of the discount. That’s may be true of many real estate brokers, but real-life Realtors have two much better reasons to hate discount listings. First, the Buyer’s Agent will have to do all the work for both the […]
This bit from RedFin (tipped by FoREM) reads to me like a dual agency lawsuit waiting to happen. Why? Because RedFin is paying an extra incentive for its buyer clients to purchase a home from its seller client before the seller’s home is MLS-listed. RedFin would surely argue that no agency has been created, but […]
…about Trulia.com casting their net of free map-mash-ups all over the place? How about Redfin.com? Unless they have another fish in their pocket, they are now head-to-head competitors with ZipRealty.com, HelpUSell.com, Assist2Sell.com, etc. Bottom-feeders of the world unite! You have nothing to lose but your investment capital! Technorati Tags: blogging, real estate, real estate marketing
Snipped from the speech Redfin.com CEO Glenn Kelman made yesterday to a Congressional subcommittee: that we must register our users He said a lot more than this, of course, and you might go read it all. But much of what he said sounded to me like complaints that Redfin has been expected to hew to […]
Why do velociraptors no longer roam the earth? Because they couldn’t change. For all their ferocity and intelligence, they were not able to adapt to their changing world. Not able because they were not blessed with the human triumph of will, they couldn’t want to change, and so they became extinct. What’s a Realtor’s excuse? […]
At 360 Digest, an exceptionally fine real estate weblog, Marlow Harris weighs in with this idea about an incipient on-line real estate start-up: Blue Roof, like Redfin and Zip Realty, misrepresents their status as “Realtor” and claims to be a member of the National Association of Realtors and adhere to its strict Code of Ethics, […]
In a comment below, Jon offers this: What are you talking about? Lawsuits against emongoo, zillow and refin? None of them are doing anything wrong…sorry to say. I looked at emongoo, zillow and redfins sites and I don’t see anywhere where they say they give legal advice. First, I only cited legal advice with respect […]
I have been devoting a lot of my time to some ascendant ideas in Real Estate loosely based on the Web 2.0 model of internet commerce. The ideas are ascendant, but they’re not necessarily good. I weigh in on the skeptical side for now, but I’m watching all this with interest. I’ve been wrong before. […]
Are you looking for a mission statement? Here’s a bold thrust in that general direction: BloodhoundBlog is everything you wish were in Realtor magazine — but isn’t. That’s pithy but inadequate, because there’s more here already than Realtor magazine — or The Specialist — would ever take on. We have lenders to take us inside […]