{"id":788,"date":"2006-12-21T15:24:27","date_gmt":"2006-12-21T22:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=788"},"modified":"2006-12-21T23:19:52","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T06:19:52","slug":"ooh-baby-baby-its-a-wired-world-but-what-is-going-to-change-in-residential-real-estate-in-the-next-12-months-almost-nothing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/788\/ooh-baby-baby-its-a-wired-world-but-what-is-going-to-change-in-residential-real-estate-in-the-next-12-months-almost-nothing\/","title":{"rendered":"Ooh, baby, baby it’s a wired world — but what is going to change in residential real estate in the next 12 months? Almost nothing . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

One of my clients gave me a wake-up call late this year. She has a computer, but she’s never unpacked it in her current home. I don’t know if the computer is robust enough for broadband, but it really doesn’t matter, does it? I’ve been ferrying listings to her by car — printed on paper, stuffed in envelopes and parked under her doormat. Just lately she acquired a fax machine, which is convenient. We have a house under contract and there is a lot of paper flowing back and forth. Certain oil-rich sheikdoms might weep, but everyone else can breathe freely — and from a cleaner air supply.<\/p>\n

This is a weird world for a wired Realtor, but guess what? It’s the real world. My own sweet mother is such a Luddite that we’re buying her the dumbest dumb terminal I have ever seen<\/a> for Christmas. We started out saying, “When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” By this point, we act as though we believe that everything is<\/i> a nail.<\/p>\n

This is incorrect.<\/p>\n

For one thing, buyers and sellers of residential real estate are not on-line in concentrations greater than other demographics. How could they be? Young people, yes. Technophiles, yes. Everyone else…? Not so much.<\/p>\n

Moreover, whether or not buyers and sellers are poking around on-line, for the most part they are not making life-altering financial decisions in untouched-by-human-hands on-line real estate transactions. There might be a news story about a crazy young couple taking the plunge, but you need to stop for a moment to recall that that exact page of the newspaper only just last week was devoted to a young man who has never cut his toenails. What makes news? The exception, not the rule.<\/p>\n

We are too much misled. The exception is interesting, but it’s interesting because it’s rare. We ignore the commonplace because… well, it’s commonplace. In the last year, we saw the launches of dozens of new Realty.bots, each one devised to provide easier access to information that was, for the most part, already available. What changed in actual, on-the-ground residential real estate Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of my clients gave me a wake-up call late this year. She has a computer, but she’s never unpacked it in her current home. I don’t know if the computer is robust enough for broadband, but it really doesn’t matter, does it? 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