How Did Saul get the NAR’s Notes?
The MLS of the Future, courtesy of Saul Klein. The response has been underwhelming according to Technorati. Much of his paper sounds like he read summaries of the NAR's MLS PAG that lasted about 18 months, specifically his "takeaway terms." Authoritative and trusted source Mission…
Going to San Francisco Next Week
Next week I will be sitting on a panel Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2008. I actually have to work next week as well (there's more to the real estate life than blogging and conferences), so I will unfortunately be missing Beer with Bloggers and…
Does the Baby Convey?
Seen in an MLS listing in Charlottesville this evening. Not to take away from Athol, but this one's pretty good. (note: the house is actually listed as vacant, so it's probably a safe assumption that neither the baby nor the pacifier conveys)
Charlottesville has its own Bubble Blog!
I don't know how I missed Real C'Ville for so long (they've been up since May 2008), but here they are - offering candid commentary on the market and most interestingly, different houses on the market: This house is on pretty Oxford Place, the one-way…
What’s outside the window?
I'll be adding these photos to my listings soon - what's outside the window of the house, what the street looks like, what's to the left and right ... not just because a client mentioned it to me the other day, but also because Google…
What will MLS data standards do for the consumers?
Hopefully, all of our lives - buyers, sellers, Realtors - will become more efficient. With the recent talk of how forthcoming data standards are going to make property data sharing more efficient and thus better for consumers and Realtors, here is one of my requests…
The NAR Gateway inches out of the box
Read it in today's Inman before it goes behind the pay wall. "We think that there is a demand by practitioners wanting to have all the data they can, and having a database that has all properties throughout the country and is as deep and…
Define “readily apparent” for consumers
So the light blogging lasted four hours. The National Association of Realtors has either gone too far or not far enough with their ambiguous dictate: (read it quickly before it goes behind Inman's subscription wall) Directors amended an article in the NAR Code of Ethics…
Add MLS Data to the mix, and you’ve got a winner
Thanks to the Lost Remote, I came across this story from Northwestern University's Readership Institute site that unintentionally makes the parallel between how Realtors think of MLS data (we want to keep it in a box, and control access). One of the most striking developments…
The MLS conversation expands
One of my greatest sources of aggravation regarding the NAR MLS PAG is this: ... he said he is largely in the dark about an NAR-created MLS Future presidential advisory group that is studying the feasibility for creating a national real estate data repository, also…