Joel Kotkin: Among the most pervasive, and arguably pernicious, notions of the past decade has been that the “creative class” of the skilled, educated and hip would remake and revive American cities. The idea, packaged and peddled by consultant Richard Florida, had been that unlike spending public money to court Wall Street fat cats, corporate […]
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“Financing dogs? That’s so last century. The trickier way? The purebred puppy of your choice for FREE – by signing this 15-year dogfood contract.”I wrote the other day about Zillow’s losses on its iBuyer “investments” – incomprehensible losses considering that this is one of the few times when it is possible to make money on non-producing […]
Joel Kotkin at The Daily Beast: Once considered backwaters, these Sunbelt cities are quietly achieving a critical mass of well-educated residents. They are also becoming major magnets for immigrants. Over the past decade, the largest percentage growth in foreign-born population has occurred in sunbelt cities, led by Nashville, which has doubled its number of immigrants, […]
Depending upon where you sell homes, you now have one powerful reason (of two) to target single, out-of-town buyers (as if Miami realtors need another reason to attract Minneapolis men). Me, I’m staying put in Charleston. But while the numbers may look good, I am furiously mining the data for the age (and, okay, income) […]
Joel Kotkin is the only American urbanologist who can tolerate actual living human beings. In consequence, he can write about the organic growth of cities as they really are, rather than as he might remake them with enough tax money and firepower. This is a long extract from a much longer article about Houston’s emergence […]
Tipped again by Poor and Stupid, novelist Orson Scott Card discovers everything that’s wrong with one-size-fits-all municipal zoning laws: I’m not urging that the government mandate any more absurd mileage requirements for cars, or ration gasoline, or any other absurd proposals. Hybrids are great, for the things they’re great for. But even hybrids still burn […]
Comes news today that we are that much closer to two new Food Stamps allocations to Major League Baseball. The count so far this year is three Welfare-addicted baseball teams moving into two brand new, taxpayer-funded stadia. If you read nothing but the Arizona Republic, you would never know that professional ath-a-letes and their empressariat […]
There’s a decently if not very deftly balanced comparison of Gilbert, Arizona, to Portland, Oregon, in the Christian Science Monitor today. The star of the piece is urbanologist Joel Kotkin, so Gilbert doesn’t suffer the usual big-city-dweller’s I-just-don’t-get-it sliming. The issue of fecundity is touched upon without any mention of the fact that Gilbert is […]
“Hello Mr. Agent, I like this house. I could see my family living here. Just one question, are there any sex offenders nearby”? A simple question that based on information from the National Association of Realtors does not have to be answered by the agent. The answer the NAR wants agents to proffer is, “Well […]
Another not-very-short list of posts. We set out to attract the best, and we’re seeing it and then some. Vote here. These are this week’s nominees: Michael Wurzer, The Future of MLS is Now Todd Carpenter, Blog traffic can be overrated David Porter, Teaching your clients how to buy a home in a declining real […]
Are you looking for a mission statement? Here’s a bold thrust in that general direction: BloodhoundBlog is everything you wish were in Realtor magazine — but isn’t. That’s pithy but inadequate, because there’s more here already than Realtor magazine — or The Specialist — would ever take on. We have lenders to take us inside […]