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$, facts and fun with numbers

Posted by admin on January 28th, 2008

The National Association of REALTORS® put out a provocative new website last week. http://www.housingmarketfacts.com/.
I will address the ‘bad’ first.
It is barely a ’site,’ and can much more accurately be described as a launch page with a few paragraphs of new content and then a number of links to existing NAR services through their flagship REALTOR.org [...]

BofA transaction hopefully will lead to more

Posted by admin on January 11th, 2008

Banking behemoth BofA purchased Countrywide financial for 4 billion and some change.
Ok, so what?  Well, I actually think it is a very positive thing and a sign of hopefully more to come.
First, Countrywide apparently held nearly one in every six mortgages in America at one time.  That seems high to me, so feel free to [...]

the blame game, lets get REAL

Posted by admin on December 21st, 2007

While I work within the ‘traditional’ real estate structure, I am certainly not an apologist for the real estate industry or REALTORS® in particular, nor for the mortgage industry or any other sector of the broader whole. When I hear that the real estate industry is under assault from the media, I try to [...]

SOS

Posted by admin on December 13th, 2007

I am hearing a lot of this right now. To say that this is a tough time for many in our industry is an understatement.
So what can you do? Well, without knowing your business model and strategy, it is hard to answer precisely. But I thought it might be a good time [...]

Central vs Distributed, a familiar cycle

Posted by admin on October 1st, 2007

During my ‘digital life’ as I have worked and grown with technology I have seen a number of interesting things happen, ‘quantum leaps’ in thought and implementation. Yet certain puzzles within technology, certain ‘debates’ still rage and always will. My personal favorite is local vs central, or thick vs thin client, or centralized [...]