The Big Yawn: Realtor.com Dips Its Toes In to iBuyer World
July 24, 2020
It appears that Realtor.com has finally made a foray into the most important thing to happen to real estate since the invention of the 30-year
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A Brief History Lesson on REALTORS and Race
July 22, 2020
I didn’t really want to write this, because I assumed it was relatively common knowledge within the U.S. real estate industry that we have a
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: The Story of Innovation in Real Estate
July 20, 2020
It’s been a while, hasn’t it? I apologize to you all, but I’ve been neck-deep in a very important project that’s taken months of my
A Few Thoughts About Rentals
June 25, 2020
This morning, I woke up to not one but two emails about Rental Beast, a new startup that proposes to become the MLS for rentals
iBuyers and Brokers: A Rebuttal to Mike DelPrete
June 11, 2020
After the past week, it is rather delightful to be writing about real estate issues for a change, rather than big social questions and difficult
The Hard Stuff: Systemic Racism and Real Estate
June 9, 2020
This is the followup to the first post, in which I asked whether the real estate industry was serious about race and racial issues. I
Is the Real Estate Industry Serious About Race?
June 6, 2020
Every American of good conscience is hurting now, both from the evil of police brutality and the evil of looting and rioting. I have been
Thinking Through Platforms in Real Estate, Part 2: Contenders
June 1, 2020
In Part 1, we looked at what a Platform in real estate might look like, having been inspired by Ben Thompson at Stratechery who talked
Rethinking How MLS Rules Get Made, In Light of NOW Model
May 29, 2020
Over on Inman, Sam Debord, CEO of RESO, longtime friend of ours (even if we argue a bunch in public), and all around great guy
