Christine gives a nice run-down of seller-only agency as it is practiced in New York State. This is not very far from the way things used to be done in Arizona, except that, because of Article 26 to the state constitution, lawyers are not required to effect the transfer of real property.
Sellsius° whispers a plan for Zillowing Redfin.
Daniel is swinging for the fences, and he plans to look at at least one more pitch. The topic: NAR, MLS, IDX, VOW, DOJ (wasn’t that a song in Hair?). I think this is a classic example where doing nothing would have resolved the whole problem within a few months: NAR implements VOW policy as planned with opt-out provision. Dinosaurs opt-out. Young turks counter-market: “Why are they hiding your listing?” Dinosaurs opt-in. What we’ll get, eventually, will be years late and much worse.
Joel kicks the tires on the Windermere map mash-up: Windermere’s Property Point hits a home run.
We began this day with a thoroughgoing article from The Realty Bloggers about Real Estate 2.0 that happened to say nice things about BloodhoundRealty.com. We’ll end the day the same way, with a rigorous call to arms from Mike Price at Mike’s Corner that also says some nice things about BloodhoundRealty.com. Saying nice things about us is incidental. Saying true things memorably — this is irreplaceable…
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Todd Tarson says:
>What we’ll get, eventually, will be years late and much worse.
You are right, sad to say. I’m losing such an argument right now as my Association prepares to implement a new MLS in my region of the state. I’m one voice on a panel of directors for this new organization.
I think my voice would carry more weight in a couple more years, but like you said it may be too late.
We seem way too concerned with ourselves and not concerned as much as we need to be for our clients. I dont pretend to be an expert here in any of this. I’m merely speaking for the client at this time, or at least what I think the client would want in this free wheeling information world we now live in.
If I’m the client I’m thinking I could either list my home on Google Base and feel that hundreds of thousands of folks could have access to the information or I could hire a Realtor and utilize their MLS and have 1700 agents see the data.
I realize there is plenty of value in the professional, but the potential for so many more buyers to see my property probably outweighs the professional value.
I want to marry the potential for the hundreds of thousands to view the listing with the professional value of our industry. Now is fine time to do it, but again I’m only one voice. Wish there were more voices stepping up.
September 14, 2006 — 11:14 am
Greg Swann says:
> Now is fine time to do it
Even if only to set things up in such a way that you can shift gears later, if you want. To have a blank sheet of paper is an enviable state.
There is room in the world for someone with Dave Winer’s talent, drive and bulldog will to write a comprehensive superset MLS database description, of which each MLS system would be a local subset. This would be a daunting task, but, once done, individually MLS systems could start planning how to integrate themselves into it.
September 14, 2006 — 12:15 pm
Todd Tarson says:
>To have a blank sheet of paper is an enviable state.
True, but I’m not sure if I have the power needed right now.
I’d love to rally the Association to get on board, but I just held an open meeting about how the dues are going to change for next year and 7 out of our 520 plus members bothered to show up for it. And the dues change is going to be a much hotter button item unfortunately.
September 14, 2006 — 12:55 pm