While I’m recuperating from Rebarcamp NY and Inman Connect, and working on the next chapter of the RPR reviews, I thought I’d post something that crossed my virtual desk because, well, I feel like it. 🙂 I’ve heard from a couple of people during Inman week that some of the more prominent voices (and honestly, … Read more
Had a great time at Virtual REBC (kudos to Jim Cronin), and thought I’d put up my presentation in case anyone is interested. 7DS on Social Media Thanks to everyone who came, and again, apologies for the audio cutting out. -rsh
An incredibly busy week of planning and preparation for REBarCamp NY as well as actual paying work piling up prevented me from getting to this Part 2 earlier. Sorry! But in Part 1 of this series, I asked real estate agents who they would use to sell their own homes if they could not do … Read more
One of the most interesting threads of 2009 sort of blew up this past week over at Marc Davison’s place when he posted a heartfelt mea culpa about his past cynicism about social media. Various heavy-hitter commenters came by and a full blown debate erupted. Oh, it’s good stuff! But there was one topic within … Read more
In my latest Inman column (link is for subscribers only, unless you made it in before the paywall dropped), I took issue with mobile for real estate, and called it the “eternal next big thing” for real estate. I didn’t have the space really to address what I do think is the future of mobile … Read more
Coldwell Banker just released its beta site (beta.coldwellbanker.com) this week, and on the whole, it’s a nice update. Here’s the current homepage: And here’s the beta homepage: Frankly, they’re both very nice; the beta page strikes me as being a bit more ‘unified’ and more contemporary in look and feel. The new search interface that … Read more
Agent ratings are back in the conversation, thanks to this scintillating op/ed by Kris Berg (link is for Inman premium subscribers only) who is one of the best writers in real estate today. I have written about this topic before (here and here) and it continues to fascinate and puzzle me still. Kris’s point essentially … Read more
If you live in the United States, and rely solely on Pravda New York Times or similar for your news, you’re probably unaware of Climategate. Basically, the entire premise of the global warming/carbon footprint craze of the past few years turns out to be totally bogus. From the RealClearPolitics.com overview: Global warming “skeptics” had unearthed … Read more
From the Search Engine Land site comes news (h/t: Duke Long, @dukelong) that Google has built out what amounts to the start of a national real estate search website: The real estate listing place pages include property information, photos, map placement, Street View imagery and functionality, nearby public transit details, and even AdWords ads. Google … Read more