This is not inspired by Ken “not the meteorologist” Cook, but I did read his post a little earlier, Did The Media Cause This, Fuel This, or Just Report It? That said, I did mention this post in the comments there, because they are related… Great minds think alike… ours do too.
Category Archives: business of real estate
Blog Anthology, Posts 138 – 150
- Friday, 14 December 2007 12:00
- Written by Lane Bailey
- 0 Comments
Once again, I have a little discrepancy in the numbers. This time, it’s because of the platform change and now there are actually numbers next to the list on the back end… I must have mis-counted previously. Hopefully that jazz is behind me.
MLS? Zillow? Trulia?
- Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:15
- Written by Lane Bailey
- 3 Comments
I ran across a blog post by Jay Thompson regarding a story in the Wall Street Journal about on-line home searches. He noted that in his area the WSJ had it wrong. He researched the numbers for the local MLS, Trulia and Zillow. His findings were that Zillow only showed about
Is a clear sky blue?
- Tuesday, 11 December 2007 10:52
- Written by Lane Bailey
- 1 Comment
Sitting down this morning getting my Fox News fix, I noticed a release by the NAR that has me re-thinking a position I have taken…
Here is the link to the NAR news release. To summarize, the position the NAR takes is that housing will
Thoughts on the Foreclosure Bailout
- Monday, 10 December 2007 11:25
- Written by Lane Bailey
- 5 Comments
Everyone has weighed in with their opinions about the proposed government bailout of some of the 1.2 million people facing foreclosure… I guess I’ll toss out my nickel (side thought… if everyone that has offered an opinion actually gave up the nickel, WE could bail out the people facing foreclosure…)