Zillow gets pillowed (archived: 2013) … And Realtor.com’s CEO goes Springer
The Difference between good Realtors and bad agents
Buying a new construction home? Bring your own tape!
Housing Starts rebound (national) … but building permits are down (PDF (archived: 2021))
Zillow uses their prominence to discuss eminent domain. Good for them, and thank you.
A Super Wal-Mart in Greene (no longer available)? But … they expect people to consistently show up for work. Who wants to work there? I kid. If they would just open a Super-Walmart in Greene and close down the one in Charlottesville …
More home loans go sour – yet some lenders continue to loosen lending standards
Ten Innovations that will reduce the amount of energy we use
You think Google’s not benefiting from Trulia’s growth?
… Pete Flint, CEO of Trulia … showing me his referer logs, and they definitely show that Google sends more traffic his way than any other search engine. … Courtesy of Robert Scoble (no longer available).
Finally, listening to CNBC this morning (archived: 2006), Joe Kernen said referencing the inability to compete with Google – “Google are going to be the government, not a company.”
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