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30
2007

Inman Blog Directory Breaks 200

By Joel Burslem, Friday, March 30, 2007.
InmanWiki's Real Estate Blog Directory has been growing steadily since it launched and just today, passed the 200 blog mark. This great news and it tells me that real estate blogosphere still buzzes with new activity and that blogging by...  more...

NAR predicts 'short-term impact' for subprime snafu

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Friday, March 30, 2007.
David Lereah, chief economist for the National Association of Realtors, says, "Foreclosures are increasing inventories in certain local markets. The projected flood of foreclosures are problematic and will add to the already loose housing supply in some local markets, but...  more...

Web tool charts home-price changes

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Friday, March 30, 2007.
Paper Money, a real estate bubble blog, has built a tool to create custom charts that display home-price changes, based on Standard & Poor's/Case-Shiller home prices indices. Users of the new tool can select one or more metro areas that...  more...

Web 2.0 goes brick and mortar

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Friday, March 30, 2007.
An artistic depiction of a bustling city populated by Web site-branded shops. This is by art/marketing group eBoy (Steffen Sauerteig, Svend Smital and Kai Vermehr), who "create re-usable pixel objects and take them to build complex and extensible artwork." Here's...  more...

So sue me...

By Matt Carter, Friday, March 30, 2007.
A law firm whose attorneys were at the forefront of epic legal battles that followed the downfall of infamous companies like Enron and Lincoln Savings & Loan is in the thick of the subprime mortgage lending debacle. The firm (take...  more...

I've seen the future and there are 12 trackbacks, 32 comments and several pings

By Jessica Swesey, Friday, March 30, 2007.
Most bloggers who've been around the block for at least eight months or so will eventually come to ponder this question: Where will all of this blogging stuff go? Here are my 10 predictions on the future of real estate...  more...

Mar

29
2007

Big Houses Mean Lousy CEOs

By Joel Burslem, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Bill Gates' House c/o Getty Images An article in Slate Magazine points to an ongoing study by Crocker Liu and David Yermack of the housing purchases of nearly every top executive in the Standard & Poor's 500 index. Their theory?...  more...

Of Boomer Lingo

By kenjenny@sbcglobal.net, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
I caught myself today saying boomer things. The guy I was talking to was much younger and looked soooo puzzled. Take this test and see how you do. Do any of these sayings make sense to you? Please roll down...  more...

Real Estate Confidential?

By Marlowe, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Another real estate reality show premeired this week, "Real Estate Confidential," airing on the Fine Living Channel. This new half-hour TV docu-drama shadows Los Angeles' most real estate agents as they "expose" the art of the deal, putting their egos...  more...

Hello, my name is "LetMeIn YourSite"

By Jessica Swesey, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
To attach a lead form or not to attach a lead form -- believe it or not that's still a pretty hot-button issue in the real estate industry. Not long ago pretty much every Web site with real estate listings...  more...

Apollogy or Reallo?

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Realogy shareholders are set to vote tomorrow on a proposed buyout by an affiliate of private equity firm Apollo Management L.P. (No, there hasn't been a proposed name change for Realogy.) The deal is worth about $9 billion. The vote...  more...

A view of the U.S. housing market: It's raining knives and stones

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Thursday, March 29, 2007.
A columnist for MoneyWeek, a financial publication based in London, said the U.S. housing market "is a 'house of cards' (pun intended) that could get much worse before it gets better." D.R. Barton Jr., the columnist and analyst, also stated...  more...

What we call the news

By Jessica Swesey, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
What We Call the News | Send To Friends | Funny Animations at JibJab The latest hit from JibJab, "What We Call the News." (This is why blogging is so much fun and why so many are doing it.)  more...

What realty agents need to know about trigger leads

By toddwcarpenter@gmail.com, Thursday, March 29, 2007.
Maybe this has happened to you. Just hours after applying for a mortgage, the phone calls start rolling in. "Hello Mr. Carpenter, This is Joe Sleezeball with Undistinctive Mortgage Company. I'm calling because I see that you are applying for...  more...

Mar

28
2007

Starts slowwwwing down

By Glenn Roberts, Jr., Wednesday, March 28, 2007.
Total housing starts dropped 42.4 percent in California in February compared to the same month last year, according to statistics compiled by the Construction Industry Research Board Board, a nonprofit research center, and starts were down 32.8 percent in the...  more...
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