I find it hard to discuss the RPR these days without a certain wistfulness. Conversations slip into the past tense. Which is a funny thing because the product hasn’t even been released. It is also a sad thing, because the basic idea, and its early manifestation, is so appealing. Am I nuts? Or has the [...]
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Friday The NAR show. I could have spent the entire week there. And immersed myself in the chatter and prophetic waxing laced with controversy about real estate’s hottest acronyms. I didn’t. I flew in for the day, enjoyed a bunch of clients and friends, and then left. There were other things, more pressing things – [...]
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RPR Madness! NAR unleashes national property database with Cyberhomes
[What follows is my somewhat stream of consciousness take on today's events. This post is a beast. Interested in your thoughts. And please point out where you think I've missed the mark. More will follow.] The NAR has taken over certain technology assets of Cyberhomes from LPS (formerly known as FNRES) in order to bring its [...]
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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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Thanks to Matt Dollinger for passing along this photo of NAR HQ in Chicago…
It’s time to focus on content
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
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
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
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…
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