On the Open Source MLS
May 8, 2012
Jeff Corbett, my good friend and former partner at 7DS Associates, recently penned a fantastic call to arms at the RETSO blog in which he
Articles filed under Real Estate
A Government Looking to Elect A New People: A Response to Bill Lublin on the Future of NAR
May 3, 2012
A few weeks back, Bill Lublin and I engaged in a spirited debate about the future of the Association, stemming from this post of
A Small Step, Fraught With Significance: ListHub Introduces "MLS Preferred" Concept
April 27, 2012
Back in November of 2010, I wrote about Move’s acquisition of ListHub and what it might mean for “Syndication Quality”. I thought then that
Expanding On My RETSO Speech On the Future of the REALTOR Association
April 23, 2012
I’ve been traveling pretty much nonstop since attending the best event on the real estate conference calendar: RETechSouth (or RETSO for short). As always,
A Quick Note on Asset Bubbles: A Response to Barry Ritholtz
April 17, 2012
I’m on the road so don’t have a ton of time to be doing a long post, but a reader emailed me a post by
SuperZips and Real Estate: In Which I Seek Answers from Economists
April 15, 2012
One of the most eye-opening books I’ve read in the past few years is Coming Apart: State of White America 1960-2010 by Charles Murray, a
The Strange Song of Subsidies
April 6, 2012
Over on the Raise the Bar Facebook Group, I posted a question to the thousand-plus members: Question for this group, because it has so many
Some Data I Just Don't Understand…
April 5, 2012
I think this might be a bleg (that would be a blog/beg) for help in making sense of some recent buyer data. Some of this
Calling the Housing Market Bottom? Not So Fast…
March 30, 2012
Courtesy of NAR Research — one of the more valuable things on Facebook — comes this CNBC article on how investors are flooding the residential
