I just heard of this new company that is planning to launch in mid-2009, called Aybaf. It is a new virtual brokerage model with the following pertinent points: A world-class consumer web portal, currently generating north of 2 million unique visitors per month Roughly 15,000 web-based leads every month, growing at 10% on average month … Read more
I originally had a different post planned for tonight, but an online conversation with a friend, followed by an interesting set of exchanges on twitter with @onehappyguy led me to want to ask this instead. What makes someone a good realtor? Seems like a simple question with a simple answer, no? But like many seemingly … Read more
Gary Vaynerchuk, of Wine Library, is a tremendously entertaining speaker. And he spoke at Inman NY this past week. While we wait for the official video from the good people of Inman, I found this… what do you call it, bootleg conference speaker video? on this blog post by Sue Adler, a realtor who actually … Read more
2009 is indeed upon us, and with it, Inman’s Real Estate Connect NYC. I would like to welcome all the realestistas heading to the Big Apple, and say I’m looking forward to meeting you all in person. And temporally speaking, 2008 has given way to 2009. I can’t explain the feeling, but I have this … Read more
2009 is indeed upon us, and with it, Inman’s Real Estate Connect NYC. I would like to welcome all the realestistas heading to the Big Apple, and say I’m looking forward to meeting you all in person. And temporally speaking, 2008 has given way to 2009. I can’t explain the feeling, but I have this … Read more
Christmas Eve being tomorrow, and with me being out over the Holidays next several days originally intended to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world in the Christian faith upon which Western Civilization has been built, blogging will be light to nonexistent. And yes, I know that the word realestistas doesn’t … Read more
I’ve been engaged in much discussion of late on the future of real estate, and we’re having a debate right now between those who believe that the future is made up of numerous independent agents (or small agent teams) operating in low-cost, low-service brokerage models and those who believe that the future actually belongs to … Read more
In the comments of this post, I wrote that THE challenge facing real estate is how brokers move from 3% profit margins to 10% profit margins. And I just got off a fantastic teleconference featuring the likes of Kris Berg, Marty Frame, Pam O’Connor, and other experts talking about the industry. Then Kris, Jay Thompson, … Read more
While I managed to escape the fate of practicing law (except for a summer experience, which is to actual legal practice as Barbados is to Mogadishu), I still have a great deal of affection for, and interest in, the business of law practice. In fact, I wrote an entire series musing on whether real estate … Read more