Galen Ward, co-founder and CEO of Estately, just emailed me to say his company had a profitable third quarter. We’ll see where this heads, but it’s clear the company is doing enough business to run a great Website and support a small staff. I am glad they’re making a go of it. Galen offers details [...]
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Real estate disintermediation revisited
Disintermediation. Remember that? Back in the late nineties, it’s what everyone was talking about: “the middleman” – Realtors – being taken out by technology. To some, this notion now seems as quaint as its millennial counterpart, the Y2K Crisis. For while putting listings on the Web did change consumer behavior, it did not cut close [...]
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Hunch: The intelligence of a million clicks
Hunch, a website that claims it “Helps you make decisions and gets smarter the more you use it” emerged from private beta this week.
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No, it’s not okay
The late morning silence that typically pervades my home was broken by expletives emanating from my bedroom. From my study, I yelled, in a similarly frantic tone, if all was OK. My wife responded, “No, all is definitely not OK!”…
Buyers stretch the boundary of real estate blogging
Well, it’s a blog — technically. Newman’s own is the newly launched diary of a young couple – Nora Krug and Michael Newman – who are proclaimed members of the “highly discriminated against minority – renters,” and their pursuit of…
The end of real estate “search”
The forces that will kill real estate search as we know it have been set in motion. They are embryonic but growing rapidly. They will overtake their prey within a couple years. Personally, I look forward to this. I’m tired…
Eruption
He was a grown man on the brink of tears. A broker. Relating a story to a fellow speaker after a conference session a few weeks ago. I happened into the conversation by virtue of proximity. I became engaged by…
Pocket full of Kryptonite
Faster than a speeding bullet More powerful than a locomotive. Look up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, no … it’s just a simple twist on an old idea. The Golden Age of Superman During the Golden…
Sawbuck offers an “alternative” alternative brokerage model
Cut your commission, offer buyer rebates, rock the website, get that consumer religion … and, after a few hard-bitten years, fade away. Such has been the trajectory of nearly all discount or “alternative” brokerage shops for the past decade. Today,…
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