Homescopes

As news of fallout from the growing subprime lending and resulting foreclosure crisis continues to spread, I’m seeing more evidence of it impacting even our hallowed ground here in Palo Alto. The growing question and concern is “How much will this affect our local housing market?”  Palo Alto and the surrounding communities have shown an amazing [...]

The 54th Carnival of Real Estate is now live over at fellow white African Erik Hersman’s Realty Thoughts blog. Of the no-doubt numerous entries he received, he picked out 6 for special mention, including yours truly’s article on Redfin as an example of the Innovator’s Dilemma. I’m honored. Prolific blogger, writer par excellence, controversy-stirrer, [...]

In my last post on Realtors and technology, I discussed the idea of being client-centric, leveraging technology to provide better service for your clients, or equal quality service while being better to yourself (interesting concept, huh?).  As I have been extolling these views recently, it has turned into a greater discussion of how the practice of [...]

Redfin is the company everybody in the traditional real estate industry loves to hate. “They’ll go bankrupt just like all discount firms do when the market turns bad.” “Can you believe how they force listing agents to do all the work?” “Their agents don’t have a clue about the market!” Deride Redfin [...]

Trulia Voices, launched 10 weeks ago, is an online real estate Q&A forum, adding qualitative information (”Where are the good restaurants in this neighborhood? Why are prices higher on the other side of Main Street?) to Trulia’s robust quantitative offering (”What are median home prices in Akron? How many homes are for sale [...]