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…
It’s All Confidential
(photo courtesy) Seriously. Every email, instant message, phone call, text ... basically any conversation that comes about because of this blog is considered by me - the owner and operator - to be confidential. The range of questions that I receive is broad and…
If Realtor.com Can Do It, Can’t I?
Just curious - If Realtor.com is displaying sold data (data apparently not available in Charlottesville - yet, bolding mine) With some areas experiencing a 25 to 39 percent decrease in home prices in the third quarter, buyers need to remain competitive in potential bidding wars.…
What’s a Beme?
An interesting higher-level editorial piece in the Wall Street Journal on Saturday, while not written with the real estate industry in mind, has some clear parallels - Marketing 3.0 is now the science of devising and managing directed business memes: call them bemes. Bemes are…
As Promised – A New Way to Search For Homes in Charlottesville
Finally. After watching my friends Jay in Phoenix and Kris in San Diego do such wonderful things with their MLS search tools, I'm finally able to announce what I believe to be the single best tool to search for homes in the Charlottesville, Virginia area*…
Going to Orlando Today for the Realtor Convention
And I'm so thankful that this is my last scheduled trip of the year. It's been a busy year. That said, I'll be sitting on a panel of my peers - Ginger Wilcox, Teresa Boardman, Ines Hededus-Garcia whom I greatly respect where we'll be discussing…
Agent Genius Spheres and News
Agent Genius, the national real estate news magazine, launched two new features/branches this morning - AG Sphere and AG News - If you're a consumer curious about what some of the best and brightest real estate minds have to say, or if you're in real…