From Day One
Change: A Love / Hate Relationship. Despite how much technology advancements have improved the overall experience of tech-related change, our resistance and subsequent sensitivity to...
The Doors on Ownership
On a recent business trip, I was flipping through channels on TV and came across an interview by Dan Rather of Robbie Krieger and John...
Linking Upstream and RESO with Universal Property IDs
I’m just about to travel to Austin for the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) fall meeting. Some of the sessions I’m most interested in are the workgroup and general...
Are Listing Portals Like the NY Times or Consumer Reports?
A day or so ago, I suggested, again, that advertising supported web sites will have a hard time building a successful listing portal, which I’ll define as...
Comments on CAR’s MLS Working Group Statement of Principles
Mark Flavin comments today on the Statement of Principles by the CAR MLS Working Group, and I’ve added my own thoughts by commenting on the Future of...
How similar are the music and real estate sales industries?
I was reading an article in the New York Times today about Rick Rubin’s efforts to breath new life into Columbia Records, which is owned by Sony Music. In...
Can there be listing aggregation without cooperation?
In response to my post The Future of MLS Is Now, Joshua Harris commented: Michael, I see your point and ask why does there have to be cooperation...
What Makes A Home Valuable?
Larry Cragun’s post today, called Unique Features Make Homes Valuable, makes me wonder whether effective listing data standards are possible. How do you describe that staircase in a...
Listings, Leads and Losers, Oh My!
Larry Cragun wrote a brilliant post against being led to being a lead, advising consumers: “To give yourself the best opportunity to select a great agent:...
Mapping Mayhem
We’re designing a new mapping module for our MLS software and one of the key design decisions we’re trying to make is how to handle...
Amidst the storm, a calm
I said in my first post that this blog was going to be about MLS, software and employee ownership. Recently, the posts have focused on MLS, but here’s a quick...