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A thought on the current Realtor.com/AVM debate

Copying is not innovation (archived: 2008). Realtor.com has the opportunity to leverage their tenuous data advantage and position themselves ahead of the competition. Their current tactic of emulating rather than differentiating is not a positive sign.

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Listing Data Distribution Gets …

Home listing information/data distribution gets .... more commoditized? I tell my new buyer clients all the time - the best place to start a home search in Charlottesville is with a local site. Can the big sites possibly provide the granular analysis that buyers need?…

Five Years of Real Estate Blogging

First, thank you for reading. I've learned more than I could have ever expected or hoped for. Thank you for your comments and emails over the years. I've been a Realtor for just over eight years, a real estate broker for nearly a month, and…

Influential Real Estate People – On Twitter

Two lists came out in the past couple days showing the important and/or influential people in the real estate space - on Twitter at least. The first to come out was produced by Stefan Swanepoel, and the second by Dustin Luther; the former seems to…

Carnival of Real Estate

It's been a while since the Carnival has been to RealCentralVA, but it's just as wide and varied as I remember. With nearly thirty entries to choose from, making a "top 5" selection was a bit of a challenge, but I chose the following, in…

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