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disintermediation

Internet Real Estate Marketing Will Change the Industry

September 26, 2007

Check out this article in last week’s edition of the C-Ville Weekly regarding the Internet and its impact on the real estate industry.
In the article, I was quoted thusly:
Realtor and real estate blogger Daniel Rothamel says that while sellers listing their homes on MLS without a realtor do cut into some of the services he [...]

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Everyone Can Benefit from Real Estate Technology– Part 1

December 5, 2006

With the Web 2.0 movement changing real estate, there is much talk about disintermediation and transparency. Kevin Boer thinks that agents will never be disintermediated, and I happen to agree. Then there is an entire blog dedicated to transparency in real estate. Transparency is a good thing.
New technology affects just about every [...]

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Blogger For Frogger

October 8, 2006

I like video games. I grew up in the “Nintendo Generation.” I still like video games. It is for that reason that I own an Xbox 360. The Xbox 360 is the latest in a long line of video game consoles. It is the most powerful video game console that [...]

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Zillow VP/CFO Runs Smack Into the “Unzillowables”

September 25, 2006

This post recently came across my RSS reader.  It is from the Zillow Blog, and written by Zillow’s VP of Marketing and Chief Financial Officer, Spencer Rascoff.  The post tells us of Rascoff’s journey through 3 open houses in his area, all of which were homes found on Zillow.  He doesn’t give us the data [...]

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Referees and REALTORS Explored

September 25, 2006

When I’m not practicing real estate, one of the things that I do is officiate basketball (I mentioned this once before). The letters from my officiating supervisors have been coming in, the rules clinics are coming up, and the season is on the horizon. All this got me thinking about the similarities between [...]

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Would the Founding Fathers Have Founded an MLS?

September 20, 2006

I live just down the road from Jefferson’s Monticello, but I must admit that I have always been a bit more partial to James Madison (The Federalist Papers rock!).  Madison is credited with writing in Federalist #51, "If men were angels, no government would be necessary."  I think that the same can be said of [...]

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Isn’t Some Type of “Fin” Soup a Delicacy?

September 19, 2006

The knives are out, and Redfin.com may end up in the soup. 
Greg over at BloodhoundBlog posted an  excellent recap of the latest row involving Redfin.com.  If you’ve got the time, it is worth clicking on every word of the post.
The thing that I find funny about it is that Redfin.com is all about going [...]

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I Want My MLS

August 18, 2006

I am going to show my age a bit, but that’s okay.  MTV celebrated its 25th anniversary on August 1st of this year.  I was about 8 months old at that time, not quite old enough to change the TV channels.  I do, however, remember their first marketing slogan:  I want my MTV! 

Okay, so [...]

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Zillow Must Not Succeed

August 16, 2006

As much as I dislike Zillow at its most basic level, the industry sure does talk about it a lot.  Talk continues on, and I found two posts on other blogs that bring up two good points:
First, I read a post at The Future of Real Estate Marketing Blog that covers how Zillow could replace [...]

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Zillow Debate Rages On

August 16, 2006

Zillow.com seems to be the discussion of the week around the real estate blogosphere.  Lots of good posts out there.  You can check some out by going to the Technorati content search, or the Technorati tag search.  As the debate rages on, I think that the clear leader is The BloodhoundBlog.
I shall be jumping back [...]

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