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Real estate asylum Premium Content

By Marc Davison, Monday, October 15, 2007.

I'm reading "Infidel," the autobiography of Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Born in Somalia, raised in the ghettos of Saudi Arabia, Ethiopia and Kenya, Ayaan fled to Holland at the age of 23 while en-route to Canada as a human parcel in a contract marriage executed by her father and a distant relative.  more...

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NAR caught in blogger crosshairs

By Jessica Swesey, Monday, October 15, 2007.
You know you've hit it big on the Web when blogs are built for the sake of analyzing your every move. Just ask President Bush, Silicon Valley and the Housing Bubble. By these standards, the National Association of Realtors must've...  more...

Can Bono save the mortgage industry?

By Jessica Swesey, Monday, October 15, 2007.
What do Bono, Sir Richard Branson and HUD Secretary Alphonso Jackson have in common? Each is a featured speaker at this year's Mortgage Bankers Association convention taking place in Boston this week. Bono, the sultry lead man for Irish rock...  more...

California Realtors approve plan for statewide database and MLS Premium Content

By Glenn Roberts Jr., Monday, October 15, 2007.

Directors for the California Association of Realtors on Saturday approved the creation of a statewide real estate data-sharing effort that local Realtor associations could choose to use as a statewide multiple listing system.

"It gives us the opportunity to get all of the data throughout the state into one database and then allow associations and MLSs to decide whether they want to use it as their MLS database or use it just as the aggregation portion," said Gary Thomas, a real estate broker who is a former president of the state Realtor group and leads an MLS Working Group that was  more...