Comments on: Cracks widen in MLS dominance

By: Gogu

Gogu — Mon, 20 Nov 2006 07:24:29 +0000

I’ll try this new Google service for my Real Estate site and let you know if I notice any traffic impovement.

By: Real Central VA - Tracking the Charlottesville and Central VA real estate market and more » Realtor.com pushes traffic to Google

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:19:37 +0000

[...] National survey: MBA cheating prevalent – But is it “serious”? UVA’s vaunted Honor Code is situational ethics/honor at its worst. Buying/Selling? Best Real Estate Site Search for Homes Poll of the week Recent Comments Athol Kay: Any chance you can send me that guys email address? ;-P MB: The Real Estate Zebra article is extremely misleading as Sycamore Square is not reflective of… Daniel Rothamel: Jim, I agree with your point that development studies that study only one locality are… Jim Duncan: Google still scares me, however. Who is to say that, in three years (give or take) when/if… UVA08: Hey Jim, Is there any new news on Albemarle Place? It seems like they broke ground a few months ago… Search [...]

By: Jim Duncan

Jim Duncan — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 16:08:12 +0000

Google still scares me, however. Who is to say that, in three years (give or take) when/if they win this battle to collect all of the real estate information – they don’t flip a switch and start charging fees to buyers/sellers/public to list? Or start selling leads to Realtors, etc.?

Once they become ubiquitous, who will stop them? As I write this, I think of an analogy to ATMs. At first they were free. Once everybody used them and depended on them, banks were/are able to get away with charging exorbitant fees for access to our own money. (I think that analogy works)

So far, the best data remains “for-fee.”

By: Athol Kay

Athol Kay — Mon, 13 Nov 2006 17:52:51 +0000

Maybe I’m just stupid but;

My Blogger blog is free.
My Feedburner RSS feed is free
My Zookoda email system is free
My Sitemeter tracker is free
My Google RSS reader is free
My multiple blog hubs (Digg etc) are all free
All the sites like Zillow.com, Realtor.com etc are all free.

Considering that so much of what is on the MLS’s are public information and attempts to advertise homes for sale, I’m actually at a loss as to how we don’t already have a National free, public access “MLS” system.

The national fee MLS is doing away with newspapers, not realtors though.

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Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:16:56 +0000

[...] Jim Duncan at Real Central VA is in love with the improvements to GoogleBase announced at NARdiGRAS. I’ll withhold judgement. Even so, its seems inevitable that we are to be XMLated by The Borg. This bodes ill for smaller players, I should think. [...]

By: Karen Rhodes

Karen Rhodes — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 00:37:56 +0000

The writing is on the wall. I have agreed with you in the past on this and still do. We are going ourselves in.