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No irony here, keep moving…

By Brian Boero | March 25th, 2009 | 4 Comments Categories: NAR

Thanks to Matt Dollinger for passing along this photo of NAR HQ in Chicago…

American real estate flea market

By Marc Davison | February 27th, 2009 | 1 Comment Categories: Buyers, Current Affairs, Foreclosures, NAR

Joel over at FOREM sent this to us. Happy Friday!

It’s time to focus on content

By Brian Boero | September 8th, 2008 | 17 Comments Categories: Brokers, Listing Alerts, NAR, Web 2.0, real estate technology

How do we fulfill the promise of Web 2.0 in real estate? Content. Yes, content. It’s been lost amid the Web 2.0 rave pulsing in our business for the past three years, a party threatened by a harsh dawn of…

Amid the Web 2.0 hoopla, something to get excited about

By Marc Davison | April 1st, 2008 | 5 Comments Categories: Agents, Brokers, NAR, real estate technology

I like technology applications that solve real problems. Think email listing alerts. That’s a perfect app. Solves a problem for both the consumer and professional. It is for this reason that I love Forms Advisor. Boston I almost forgot how…

The customer has left the building

By Brian Boero | March 5th, 2008 | 4 Comments Categories: Agents, Consumers, MLS, Marketing, Media, NAR, Trulia, Web 2.0, Zillow

Last month, the Financial Times reported that Google’s search numbers coming from the iPhone were so high the company’s engineers thought the data were bogus. Further on in the article the company’s head of mobile operations asserts that “the number…

Clarity and confusion in online real estate

By Brian Boero | November 27th, 2007 | No Comments Categories: MLS, Marketing, NAR, New business models, Trulia, Zillow

Two important stories hit Inman News yesterday: “Realogy plans national IDX web-search platform” and “Consumer access in the cards for NAR’s real estate ‘Gateway’” Right here, in two stories posted within hours of each other, we see the conflicted state…

Leaving NAR

By Brian Boero | November 19th, 2007 | 2 Comments Categories: Agents, Consumers, MLS, Marketing, NAR, New business models, Web 2.0, Zillow, real estate technology

My Southwest 737 lifted above the electric circus of Las Vegas. My head ached. My voice was gone. I wheezed from two days’ worth of secondhand smoke. It was 11:00 p.m. on Thursday night, and my capacity for analysis was…

Hatfield Consumers vs. McCoy Agents

By Marc Davison | November 13th, 2007 | 6 Comments Categories: Agents, Consumers, NAR

As I read the Inman News letter to editor written by Professor Erik Gartzke regarding Dian Hymer’s article ‘Is Buying Home a good investment” I heard the popping sound of a can of worms being opened. Yesterday, as I read…