Vote: The NROB “Best American Band of Past 20 Years” Poll

We interrupt the regularly scheduled program of heavy-duty, two-thousand word discussions about the real estate industry to bring you this light-hearted fun segment on music! A couple of weeks ago, I asked realestistas about their choice for the “Best American Band of the Past 20 Years”.  I got four submissions, and since I also wanted … Read more

Realogy Sure Sounds Confident

I guess because of the recent story on US News.com, there’s been quite a lot of speculation about Realogy going bankrupt. My original post back in November of last year on why I thought Realogy made for a particularly poor bankruptcy candidate is getting rather large amount of traffic, and the comments have been illuminating … Read more

Real Estate Marketing Report Card Gets a C-

Other folks have already praised the new Real Estate Marketing Report Card, which the company was kind enough to alert me to via email.  (/wave at Brian Thibault).  And if you can get Joel Burslem to say the following, you probably don’t need my two cents: It’s a great promotional tool –  one that’s clearly … Read more

Multi-layer Brand & Social Media

Last week, I had an opportunity to attend an extraordinary meeting with some of the most senior people at NAR, on the topic of social media.  I have to thank Jim Duncan for putting the meeting together, and of course, I am grateful to the leadership at NAR for being willing to listen to a … Read more

The Firm As Model Actually Happening?

In a time lost in memory, in a world far far away, I openly hypothesized that the future of real estate brokerage might look more like a law firm than brokers of today: Everyone else is an employee. They get a salary, they get benefits, and if business is good, and they’re good, then they … Read more

Agent Value in the Age of Ebay

So two events conspired to make my evening interesting. First, there was a brief Twitter exchange between Marc Davison, he of the Kilo-class wattage, and Joe Ferrara of Sellsius: Joe: @1000wattmarc Riddle me this: When looking at a specific home zstimate, what value is knowing the median error rate for a city? Marc: @jfsellsius Totally. … Read more