Since When Is Justice About Propaganda?
The Department of Justice has posted a new rant against REALTORS. I used to practice law and had many cases with the SEC and a...
Why is title insurance necessary? Or how about a URL for every parcel?
Bad data, that’s why. The many county governments across the country deploy a dizzying variety of legal and technical approaches to tracking title, and the...
The Phoenix Real Estate Technology Exchange
Blogging is a powerful way to connect with others. I understood that before but now it’s burned into my consciousness. First, the response from Phoenix...
Big News
We have some big news we’d like to share and as I’m not much for press releases, I’m going to make this an FBS Blog...
Council of MLS
Just a short note to say that I’ll be at the Council of MLS meetings next week in Seattle, and also an experiment to see...
I’ve got a headache
Seriously. Long flight, short layover, rushing here and there, all the while thinking about MLS regionalization. Michael Seguin from Tales from the Techside writes today...
The World Wide Web of Licensing Map Data
There are two primary companies that create street map data: NAVTEQ and TeleAtlas. The traditional focus of both of these companies has been in-car navigation....
Good Standards Break Monopolies, Not Make Them
The discussions across the country about consolidating MLSs rages on. In some areas, however, the focus appears to be more on who leads the consolidation...
Wireless Usage On The Rise
As promised, we’ve mined our MLS usage statistics for wireless access. The following chart speaks for itself: The numbers along the Y axis in this...
Agent Decline?
There’s a running joke in our office about my repeated failure to predict the beginning of the downturn in the number of agents. I’ve been...
Aaron Anglin
Lani Anglin is one of the writers at the Bloodhound Blog as well as her own R.E. Revealed and Beautiful Chaos. Tragically, Lani’s brother, Aaron,...
Allowing The Outside Web To Come In
The technical blogs are buzzing about Six Apart’s call to use open standards for social networks and Google’s leaked announcement that it will be creating...