It should come as no surprise that the average “good customer,” doesn’t spend a lot of time (or wish to learn) anything about the Real Estate Industry. Even when it serves them–even if they should know. The average “good customer,” would prefer that their real estate was “handled,” for them, that they could swallow […]
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Witness: “The next big project from 2nd Century will be Realtor University. A fully accredited educational institution[.]” I do not for one second hate to say I told you so: We know sheep will follow a Judas goat to their slaughter, as will cattle. Now the NAR is testing the idea on lemmings… Todd Carpenter […]
There roughly 50 days left this year, depending on when I get this post done. About 14% of the year left. And, really, truly, a lot of people take it down a notch after Halloween. Or three notches. Because the presumption is that nobody buys in the winter. Look at the NAR monthly numbers: every […]
by Brian Brady
Commercial Real Estate Finance Expert
Structured Debt and Equity
Licensed Real Estate Broker in AL, CA, and FL
I wasn’t born when General MacArthur gave “the speech“, at West Point but I’ve read it a hundred times. I delivered it as an exercise for a public speaking class in college. Duty, Honor, Country: Those three hallowed words reverently dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be. They are […]
Todd Carpenter becomes one with the Borg and the charming little lemmings elbow each other out of the way to dive off the cliff head first. One of two things will happen: Todd will discover he’s made a terrible mistake and will quit this job with dispatch — I hope very loudly. Or: Todd will […]
Stefan Swanepoel sent me a copy of his Top 10 Real Estate Trends Report, which was gracious of him, considering that neither me nor any of the Bloodhounds nor BloodhoundBlog itself are mentioned anywhere in the book — at least as far as I could detect on a cursory examination. I don’t mind, mind you. […]
Real estate is the most unbusinesslike business in the history of business. I don’t want to defend that statement comprehensively, because it’s late and I’m tired, but I can offer some data points. When we sat down with Greg Tracy, I argued to him that licensing inhibits the kind of competition for reputation that we […]
There’s news and then there’s news. Consider: A real estate industry study released today shows that most popular consumer real estate search engines, including Trulia, Zillow, Google and Yahoo!, offer home seekers only a small fraction of the homes actually available on the market — and that many of the listings are inaccurate or out […]
I read about the outlawing of web site URLs in listings on the “Welcome to Tempo” page of the Arizona Regional Multiple Listings Services (ARMLS), but I wasn’t certain it meant what it seemed to mean. Since I have been a Realtor, we have promoted our single-property websites in the remarks section of the listing, […]
The quote comes from WorkHappy.net this morning. Yesterday — plane-bound, casino-bound, Twitter-bound — unable to post — I reflected upon why it’s all just so much waxed fruit — for now: Rusting in irony. I really, really want to post and I have 140 chars to work with. That’s Jeff Turner and a newly-shorn Dustin […]
I am buried. I have five houses in play and Cathy is on compulsory bed rest — on pain of hospitalization. I have a zillion little jobs that need doing around here, and I keep coming up with new ideas. For instance, I think it would be cool to promote the long list of Odysseus […]
[I was just finishing this up when I read Greg’s terrific post. Timing in life and all that…] My first jaunt into online polemics was in the early nineties, the topic animal rights. The Animal Liberation Front was active in the Northwest – burning fur farms and research labs to prove the efficacy of their […]
Last week Peter Coy at BusinessWeek made a point of asking Redfin’s Glenn Kelman a real estate question. Kelman’s answer wasn’t awful, but it wasn’t great. (The negotiation advantage for unsold spec home occurs once a quarter, not just once a fiscal year.) But it was funny to me, because of this: Why would anyone […]
The missing word in the title above is, “completely”. Top Buyer Agents Unite to Put Themselves Completely Out of Business. Also, based on my schedule and the (so far, at least) almost total unwillingness of Top Buyer Agents to even listen to this vital message, there may not be much reason to keep saying it. […]
This came into the comments section of this post yesterday, from Joshua Ferris: What type of services do you expect a buyer’s agent to offer in order to create a “real value”? Thank you, Joshua, for the set up! Timing couldn’t be better; there seems to be a confluence of events. Redfin has apparently duped […]