I received a nice little email from the people behind Zillow. Drew at Zillow here. Since you are based in Boston, I just wanted to let you know that we just posted a heatmap of boston neighborhoods that you might find of interest. It gives some detail about how values...
While researching the previous blog entry about real estate agents leaving the business, I was trying to find a good graphic. I immediately thought of the perfect person to represent the typical real estate agent. Good ol’ Gil. Right? Gil actually was a real...
During the boom’s peak from 2002 to 2004, the National Association of Realtors (NAR) saw memberships soar 26 percent. Today, over 1.2 million Americans call themselves Realtors. But the exuberance couldn’t last forever: the NAR forecasts existing home...
Shares in Realogy, the independent, publicly traded real estate company that was formerly a part of Cendant Corp., have fallen about 10 percent since regular trading began Aug. 2, and several private equity firms are interested in a possible takeover of the real...
Seems like anyone and everyone has an opinion on how real estate agents should get paid. I can’t think of any other business where compensation is discussed, at such length (well, perhaps Major League Baseball, but that’s about it). Let’s disregard...
The people over at the Sellsius Real Estate blog are trying to generate interest in their site. They’re running this contest, to see whether or not there are any bloggers out there that can post 100 entries, within just 24-hours. Fun. And, not easy. The highest...