Can a Web site solve the problems California regulators have with an alleged lack of competition in the title insurance industry? That's a question posed on this blog back in May, when California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner, addressing the state's... more...
The Wall Street Journal's June Fletcher reports that home buyers and sellers these days are asking real estate agents to perform a variety of tasks -- including some very menial ones -- that would have been out of the question... more...
So the U.S. didn't really lose 4,000 jobs in August after all -- we picked up 89,000, the Labor Department said today in releasing the revised numbers for August along with its report for September (110,000 new jobs, about as... more...
Foxtons, the discount real estate company that announced Sept. 26 it had terminated 350 of its 380 remaining workers, stated in a Web notice this week that it plans to seek out another real estate broker to take over its... more...
Real estate as an industry has never embraced enterprise class technology platforms. The reasons are obvious - the industry evolved from a national patchwork of local brokerages serviced by local title and settlement providers, all running on mom-and-pop systems. During... more...
