Don’t Force Zillow Into a Corner…
September 23, 2020
By now, you have probably heard the news that Zillow launched a “residential brokerage”, will join the MLS, and use the MLS IDX feed to
Articles filed under MLS & Associations
In Which I Solve the Days On Market “Mess”
September 22, 2020
Over at Inman, there’s a great writeup of a truly inside baseball topic: the confusion and controversy around Days On Market. Andrea Brambila wrote the
The Relationship Narrative and Its Flaws
September 9, 2020
There is a persistent narrative in the real estate industry. It is persistent because at its core, there is a lot of truth to it.
Minimum Standards for the MLS: Analysis & Proposal
September 1, 2020
Unless you’re in the MLS space of the residential real estate industry, you probably did not know that the MLS Standards Workgroup of the NAR
Brief Suggestion on “Expanding the American Dream”
August 21, 2020
It’s Friday afternoon, and my brother is landing in Las Vegas soon, so I’m outta here! But first, wanted to briefly discuss a new T3
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
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
