Happy Friday everybody! With due apologies to my Ohio State fans, I confess I’d really like to see Wisconsin drub the Buckeyes tomorrow to throw the entire CFB playoff picture haywire. Wouldn’t mind seeing Arkansas shock the world either. In any event, over on Vendor Alley, the co-host of Industry Relations, Greg Robertson has some … Read more
Hot on the heels of the Alex Doubet interview, I’m pleased to give you all an interview with the CEO of yet another innovative W-2 brokerage. Mike Maher is the Co-Founder & CEO of Houwzer, a W-2 based flat listing fee brokerage based in Philadelphia with operations in the Philly Metro and Washington DC Metro … Read more
Those of you who attended the CMLS annual conference in Salt Lake City have already heard the presentation that David Charron and I did at the close of Thursday. Hopefully, many of you downloaded the free white paper that we released and have or will read through our ideas there. If you did not attend … Read more
Today’s Notorious Interview is of a super-interesting, super-smart guy many of you probably have never heard of. His name is Alex Doubet, and he is the founder and CEO of Door, a unique brokerage based in Dallas. He is also a VIP Subscriber and a longtime reader of Notorious. Door is an interesting brokerage that … Read more
Q3 earnings reports are mere weeks away, which means that Q3 has been over for a couple of weeks. That means I got my hands on some new iBuyer data. I’m compiling some Denver data (which I’ll post later in a different post) but the easy comparison is for Phoenix. In case you don’t recall, … Read more
I am delighted to present this Notorious Interview of Mark Schacknies, CEO & Co-Founder of Remine, a real estate data and technology company. We discuss MLS data, MLS technology, and what is going on in this tiny-yet-important space of PropTech. Remine has been challenging the incumbents in this space for a while now, and making … Read more
I’ve decided that most of the Interview series will be available to VIP members only, because… it takes a good amount of work to put these together. A few, with wider industry implications, will be made public but I think most of these are really of interest to serious industry observers (who I think are … Read more
So a number of you have messaged and written me to say positive things about the two interviews I did with Fred Bin of Zoom Casa and Rick Rudman of Curbio last week. I know I’m a writer first and you come here to read overly lengthy posts about various real estate topics, but I … Read more
It’s that time of the year again… by which I mean, the second time we have had the National Association of REALTORS put on the Innovation, Opportunity & Investment Summit. So last year, I wrote this post in which I congratulated BoxBrowie for winning the iOi Pitch Battle, but awarded my Shiva Award to BoxMLS. … Read more