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The Future
The Big Dumb-Down
While the old tradition of broker cooperation via the MLS is slowly eroding, there is an opening for others to intrude. Two quotes seen this week in different articles: Founder and CEO Rich Barton said in a radio interview on April 1st that he sees Zillow Offers as...
Private Listing Clubs
The largest agent club in Southern California is growing its membership quickly, as the erosion of the cooperation between brokers continues. We'll hear more about the disrupters, discounters, and consolidation, but the underlying theme is that agents are only going...
Facebook Real Estate
Hat tip to Eddie89 for sending this in! In March, Facebook said it had agreed to a settlement with civil rights groups over discrimination in the way it has allowed advertisers to target audiences. In an announcement about the settlement, the company said, “Anyone who...
Real Estate Class Action Lawsuit
While we're on how NAR and others have failed us, let's mention the latest class-action lawsuit: [button...
Compass Search Portal
The real estate industry has never felt the need to create a powerful search portal in response to Zillow. There should have been an industry-wide effort to create a realtor-centric website to support our business, but NAR and others just shrugged it off. Traditional...
Zillow Strategy
It's out in the open now - Zillow intends to change the game. An excerpt from an interview with Rich Barton where he admits Zillow used agents to get big, and is now deciding how to use that power: An excerpt from I-News: Barton also indicated there could be major...
VanBnB
It figures that more people will be sleeping in their cars, but did the city council think some would be making money on it? Expect even more scrutiny of AirBnB, the website: Last month, the San Diego City Council unanimously voted to stand by their repeal of an...
Zillow ‘Moonshot’
Bloomberg has this article on Spence stepping down at Zillow yesterday: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-02-21/zillow-ceo-rascoff-steps-down-so-barton-can-lead-moonshot-effort Zillow must believe that flipping homes is their future: On average, a customer...
Instant House
With cities under pressure to provide affordable housing, it would be nice if there were ready-made buildings that a crane could drop onsite. This is the right idea, but high-cost (probably more than most would spend). If we could find a builder/factory that would...
