So… I assume there’s still some sort of a raging blogwar going on about Greg Swann, but when the man is right, he’s right. His latest is just some good solid advice: Give your home a blog. Every home for sale should have its own web site. What makes a weblog useful and practical is that … Read more
With everyone focusing on the gloomy residential real estate market, I thought it might be interesting to take a look at what’s happening over on the Dark Side of the Force, aka, commercial real estate. CoStar released their Q4 financial results recently, and boy, are they impressive: BETHESDA, Md., Feb. 20 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — CoStar Group, … Read more
One of the more interesting articles I’ve read recently from a mainstream publication comes from The Atlantic. Christopher Leinberger, a scholar and a real-estate developer (not sure I’ve ever seen those two terms together like that, but he is a professor of urban planning at UMich and a real-estate developer), writes about the possibility that … Read more
The Real Estate Journal is reporting that the largest landlord in San Francisco is putting apartment properties up for sale, and raising some questions: After five years as the most aggressive buyer of apartment buildings in San Francisco, the Lembi family has — for now — become the city’s biggest seller. The 18 buildings up … Read more
Looks like the latest CoStar blog post takes the rivalry between CoStar and Loopnet to a new level. It’s exciting — almost as if we’re in a Presidential Election season. Oh yeah…. Anyhow, CoStar basically pimpslapped Loopnet’s membership claims and alleges false advertising: If the impressive-sounding number LoopNet claims as its “registered users” is really … Read more
Looks like the latest CoStar blog post takes the rivalry between CoStar and Loopnet to a new level. It’s exciting — almost as if we’re in a Presidential Election season. Oh yeah…. Anyhow, CoStar basically pimpslapped Loopnet’s membership claims and alleges false advertising: If the impressive-sounding number LoopNet claims as its “registered users” is really … Read more