One of my favorite people in the industry, Joe Rand, a broker-owner from New York, a corporate lawyer by training, and an amazing singer has penned an article for Inman titled, “Be resilient in the face of disruption: My big takeaway from Inman Connect New York.” It’s worth a read, so go do that. Given … Read more
The first interview of the New Year is with Nick Taylor, VP of Growth at Modus.
Happy Monday, everybody! So if you haven’t seen it yet, Inman ran a big article last Friday talking about a statement by Bryan Greene, NAR’s director of Fair Housing policy: “We’ve seen homeownership rates among racial groups steadily rise, but I think many of us would have expected rates to have risen more,” Greene added. … Read more
It’s good to be home and be able to write and think out loud on issues that might impact the industry. It’s doubly good to be able to do it with the best audience out of the most informed readership in the industry. I’m actually a bit surprised that others who are far more tech-focused … Read more
As you know, I’m a huge bull on the Market Maker iBuyer concept. You could call me the Cretan Bull on that idea, since I’m on record as suggesting it will be 60% of transactions by 2024. (Sure to be wrong, but… I win even if I lose since I get to hang out with … Read more
In the next couple of weeks, we’ll get earnings releases from Zillow. I wish we get earnings reports from Opendoor and Offerpad, but… hey, we can only look at what we can look at. So I completed my analysis of Q4 iBuyer numbers out of Phoenix, where I have the best dataset. Let’s see what … Read more
I realize writing has been light because of travel, and because of Inman Connect that just finished last week. My apologies, but I hope to put some thoughts down before my next roadtrip. Now, I didn’t attend any sessions because, well, #lobbycon for one and meeting after meeting for another. But what I’ve heard from … Read more
Hey everybody – I’m about to hop on an airplane to head to Inman New York but thought I’d point out the obvious: the new website redesign has launched. I know you couldn’t miss it. I kept most of the design and site structure the same, but hopefully improved legibility and cleanliness of the overall … Read more
Hi everyone – Just a quick note to say that the site will be down on Friday and possibly into Saturday as I make a bunch of changes to make the VIP system easier to use and far less buggy. There will also be a new site redesign that will come into play the next … Read more