One of the most valuable pieces of data in our industry, I think, is the annual Power Broker Report and Survey conducted by RISMedia. The 2008 edition is no exception, and is available here. I highly recommend it if you’re interested in our industry as a whole. I like to play with the numbers as … Read more
One of the most valuable pieces of data in our industry, I think, is the annual Power Broker Report and Survey conducted by RISMedia. The 2008 edition is no exception, and is available here. I highly recommend it if you’re interested in our industry as a whole. I like to play with the numbers as … Read more
Let us talk about land. About buildings. The pure physicality of bricks, wood, steel beams, stairways, elevators, walls and roofs. You know, real estate. Normally, the conversation would be all about homes, condos, and the like — the stuff of the daily business of realtors and consumers. But I have in mind a slightly different … Read more
So it turns out that in addition to ruling the world from the Skull & Bones tomb, Yalies also get involved in real estate from time to time. There’s even a group called Yale Alumni Real Estate Association (YAREA, pronounced Y-Area) that just held its annual conference. I was invited, so… I went. Since the … Read more
In the comments section of my post on Alex Perriello’s confidence in denying a bankruptcy for Realogy, a commenter by name of “Still Don’t Agree” raises several very interesting points. And because SDA wasn’t a raving lunatic, but apparently a very smart, very logical, and a calm & measured commentator, I thought it worth using … Read more
I guess because of the recent story on US News.com, there’s been quite a lot of speculation about Realogy going bankrupt. My original post back in November of last year on why I thought Realogy made for a particularly poor bankruptcy candidate is getting rather large amount of traffic, and the comments have been illuminating … Read more
So it appears that commercial real estate isn’t going to escape the imploding economy after all. (H/T: Peter Pays Paul) This is probably not the best time for NAR to be talking up commercial real estate. But that’s another story, for another time. This is the time to look on the bright side of the … Read more
(Disclaimer: Move, Inc. is a client of Onboard Informatics, my employer. But I have spoken to no one there, nor anyone here who deals with Move, for this post. Everything here is my opinion, based on my own research into publicly available information.) In what is an unusually long post for him, Dustin Luther laments … Read more
Noah Rosenblatt over at Urbandigs notes potential huge problems over at Realogy (H/T: 4Realz): According to Crain’s “Seven area firms make endangered list“: “The most vulnerable, according to S&P, include Realogy, the Parsippany, N.J.-based owner of such brands as Century 21 and Corcoran Group. The firm, which was taken private last year by Apollo Management … Read more