I came upon this a bit late, but there is a somewhat angry battle being waged with words online between popular FSBO site Forsalebyowner.com and the National Association of Realtors, Realtor.com and, generally, a bunch of individual Realtors. It started with a press release and this November 12 post from the Forsalebyowner.com blog. The next [...]

I wrote yesterday about a new show on HGTV that will feature owners selling their homes on their own, without the assistance of a broker. This inevitably led to the recounting of story about an agent I’d worked with in the past and the woeful comparison of real estate sales to brain surgery. Since buying [...]

Since the advent of the multiple list (MLS), real estate sales and marketing had remained largely unchanged for many years. There have been some twists and wrinkles along the way, and most of them have been borne from the Internet boom and the inherent shrinking of geographical boundaries and distances that is created by the [...]