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2008.05.15: Remodeling customer surveys
2008.05.14: Realogy's First Quarter 2008 Results
2008.05.09: The Housing Crisis Is Over
2008.05.09: Scarcity Marketing: Rags, Riches and Real Estate
2008.05.07: 10 Fastest Growing US Real Estate Markets
2008.04.21: Foreclosure bus' magical misery tour
2008.04.18: The "End of the Starbucks Era"
2008.04.17: Regarding the Practice of Law in South Carolina Real Estate Transactions
2008.04.13: Realogy Parent Apollo Management Files for IPO
2008.04.08: Map: The Impact of the Subprime Mortgage Squeeze Across the US
2008.04.07: Beyond the Banking Crisis: A Strategy Crisis
2008.04.02: An Innovative Marketing Initiative
2008.04.01: Overspending on Newspaper, TV and Radio Advertising - The Movie
2008.03.31: Real estate agent commissions up, down or flat?
2008.03.31: Fidelity National Sees New Regulatory Risks
2008.03.31: Home sellers dream up ways to hook buyers
2008.03.31: Top 5 reasons why “The Customer Is Always Right” is wrong
2008.03.31: OF FLY EYES AND NEWSPAPER REVENUES
2008.03.30: That 6% Is Getting Harder to Earn
2008.03.28: Chase Mortgage Memo Pushes "Cheats & Tricks"
2008.03.27: Debt Junkies: Realogy Pays Off Debt With Yet More Debt
2008.03.21: Facebook Toast? Hot Today, Dead Tomorrow--Like AOL?
2008.03.18: A Video Ballad of Bubble and Foreclosure
2008.03.14: Gauging Value in Real Estate as Home Prices Slide
2008.03.12: Girls and young woman are now the most prolific web users
2008.03.05: Do Young, Tech-Savvy Buyers Need a Real Estate Agent's Help?
2008.03.04: Century 21 Renews the Gold Jacket
2008.03.03: Home Appraisal Standards Stiffened
2008.03.03: Why Don’t Real-Estate Agents Use Better Photos?
2008.02.28: Great Response by Southwest Airlines
2008.02.26: Leon Black on Current Markets & Realogy
2008.02.25: A conversation with Valdis Krebs about social network analysis
2008.02.23: Do Consumers Perceive Precise Prices to be Lower than Round Prices?
2008.02.23: Stimulus Plan Aids Buyers of High-Priced Homes
2008.02.22: LA Rent Prices Rising
2008.02.21: The Cachet of Professional Home Photos
2008.02.19: Marketing HR
2008.02.12: How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook? Just Try Breaking Free
2008.02.12: Scrutiny Tightens for Title Insurers
2008.02.10: When Facebook Ads Go Wrong
2008.02.09: $16 Billion For Title Insurance?
2008.02.08: Real estate agents sue Google for links to stories about them
2008.02.03: Trying to Clear Fog From Pension Plans
2008.01.28: NYT on Redrin, Trulia and Zillow
2008.01.27: ARM's Still Useful - in the Right Hands
2008.01.22: The Inflation Update
2008.01.21: Feeling Misled on Home Price, Buyers Are Suing Their Agent
2008.01.17: Beijing property curbs hit estate agents
2008.01.17: Shiller: New York Housing Market to Crash, Too
2008.01.16: TV-to-Online Ad Shift Coming Soon
2008.01.16: Credit Squeeze: The Press Meets the Wrench
2008.01.16: The Dealer Made Me Do It
2008.01.14: How to sell your home fast
2008.01.08: The IT department is dead, author argues
New Nicholas Carr book predicts utility computing will replace internal IT shops
2008.01.08: Top Internet Themes for 1H'08
2008.01.03: Eight business technology trends to watch
2008.01.03: Real Estate: The best - and the worst - of 2007
2008.01.03: Renting vs. Owning
2007.12.30: Shedding light on gray areas of realty transactions
2007.12.23: The US sub-prime crisis in graphics
2007.12.23: America's Obsession With Our Homes
2007.12.22: Businesses Fear the Social Web
2007.12.22: Businesses Fear the Social Web
2007.12.20: Wall Street's Next Crisis: Commercial Real Estate?
2007.12.17: Investors own about one-fifth of Bay Area homes in foreclosure
2007.12.10: The Making of a Corporate Athlete. Or, conditioning for executives
2007.12.10: Global Property Price Index
2007.12.10: Interest rate 'freeze' - the real story is fraud: Bankers pay lip service to families while scurrying to avert suits, prison
2007.12.09: If robotics technology now stands where computing did in the '70s, what can we expect in the future?
2007.12.09: Real estate assistants invaluable in keeping the industry running
2007.12.08: Sarasota Real Estate Auction: A Bitter Aftertaste
2007.12.03: US property risks
2007.12.03: Fannie Mae president and CEO "Rates were low for a long period of time. Home prices accelerated for a long period. Both lenders and borrowers had a huge amount of confidence that ultimately led to overconfidence."
2007.12.03: The Segmented Society
2007.12.03: Housebound: Why homeownership may be bad for America
2007.12.03: Low fee? Let's deal
2007.12.01: Big Rebukes On Title Referrals
2007.11.30: Total Time Spent Online is Up 24.3%
2007.11.29: Zillow Q & A, Mortgage Entry?
2007.11.26: An Interview with Sam Zell
2007.11.23: Eight reasons to be optimistic about today's economy
2007.11.19: Intuitive Decision Making
2007.11.19: The Death of E-Mail
Teenagers are abandoning their Yahoo! and Hotmail accounts. Do the rest of us have to?
2007.11.17: Sarkozy's Speech to a Joint Session of Congress
2007.11.10: The bloodbath in credit and financial markets will continue and sharply worse
2007.11.06: Bad leads at HouseValues? Attorney General settles case
2007.11.05: Realtor (Long & Foster) Discourages Use of Outside Lenders
2007.11.05: The Aesthetic Imperative Comes to Convenience Stores
2007.11.05: Realogy CCR cut to 'B' on lower expected cash flow, weak credit measures - S&P
2007.11.05: Bankruptcy Reform Bites Back on the Housing Market
2007.11.05: IAC Splits Up
2007.11.04: The Great Divide
2007.11.03: The Southern California market will get worse before it gets better, he warns a gathering. One survival strategy: Slash prices, now.
2007.10.31: When It Takes a Miracle To Sell Your House
2007.10.30: Further Weakening in Home Prices According to the S&P Cash Shiller Home Price Indices
2007.10.26: New Home Sales & Inventory
2007.10.24: Condemning Themselves to More Mediocrity
2007.10.24: Where was the Bubble: Houses, Rates or Credit?
2007.10.23: Technology / Internet Trends
2007.10.22: Are your frontline employees going to save or kill your most important quarter?
2007.10.22: Housing Flameout
2007.10.22: Instant Housing and Designing for Disaster
2007.10.20: Zell's Angels
2007.10.18: The Subprime Collapse Didn't Start Bothering the Bush Administration until Wall Street Bankers Started Whimpering
2007.10.15: Understanding Our Obsession with Homes and Real Estate
2007.10.14: Nation's Housing: No deduction for mortgage interest on big houses?
2007.10.12: Apollo hires top real estate lawyer for expansion
2007.10.12: US DOJ Antitrust Division: Competition and Real Estate
2007.10.08: Assets, GDP & Debt
2007.10.08: Cross-Selling
2007.10.08: The iPod moment has arrived for newspapers
2007.10.07: The Gofer Broker
2007.10.04: Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
2007.10.04: America's Most Stable Housing Markets
2007.10.04: Google & Privacy
2007.10.03: Monster Employment Index: US Job Opening Data
2007.10.01: Redfin's VC Economics
2007.10.01: The Need for New Maps
2007.09.25: Why appraisals are coming in above sale prices
2007.09.20: I Love the Smell of Repos in the Morning
2007.09.16: Selling a home without an agent comes with risks, rewards
2007.09.13: Greenspan Concedes Mortgage Dilemma
2007.09.08: What’s Really Happening in Housing Markets?
2007.09.06: American Heartland Escapes the Housing Bust
2007.09.03: California's Housing Market
2007.09.03: Fed governor urges action on house prices
2007.08.30: David Packard's 11 Simple Rules
2007.08.30: Has Your Firm Adapted to the Blurred Boundary between the Internet and Your Products and Services?
2007.08.30: Case-Shiller US National Home Price Index - 2nd Quarter
2007.08.30: Defaults on credit card bills in US rising
2007.08.30: The iPhone after two months
2007.08.28: Realogy's Debt Sales
2007.08.27: How Ads Affect Our Memory
2007.08.27: "Capitalism without financial failure is not capitalism at all, but a kind of socialism for the rich."
2007.08.25: Propping Up Declining Traditional Media Businesses
2007.08.25: Ground Zero of the Real Estate Bust
2007.08.25: Foreclosure Radar / California Housing Forecast
2007.08.18: Notes on Leverage and the Sub-Prime Mortgage Market
2007.08.07: America's Fastest Growing Suburbs
2007.08.06: Ten Years After
2007.07.30: Low Cost Air Travel Opens New Second Home Markets
2007.07.26: No Housing Turnaround for Two Years?
2007.07.26: Home Resales in U.S. Fall 3.8% to 5.75 Million Rate
2007.07.18: Tesco Expands into Phoenix and Southern California
2007.07.18: Realogy Parent Apollo Management To List Shares on a New Goldman Sachs Exchange
2007.07.18: A Look at Housing Prices Around the World
2007.07.18: On Creating Software
2007.07.18: Redfin raises $12 million in New VC, eyes D.C., Chicago and Sacramento
2007.07.18: Virtual Real Estate Site Weblo Raises $3.3 Million In Second Round
2007.07.17: Young Adults are Giving Newspapers Scant Attention
2007.07.17: Best Places to Live in the US: Top 100
2007.07.16: Avoiding the Traps That Can Cause Your Company to Self-Destruct
2007.07.14: House Priced Too Low?
2007.07.13: Unconventional Wisdom About Management
2007.07.03: A Short Video on Client / Customer Relationships
2007.06.29: Naples Board of Realtors Stops Submitting Complete Monthly Data to their State Association
2007.06.21: How the U.S. Has Kept the Productivity Playing Field Tilted to Its Advantage
2007.06.20: Virtual Goods: the next big business model
2007.06.19: Most Over and UnderValued US Housing Markets
2007.06.19: A World Awash in Cash: Unfettered finance is fast reshaping the global economy
2007.06.19: Search engine roulette: sites rarely agree on top results: Fewer than 1% of first-page results are shared by Google, Yahoo, Windows Live and Ask
2007.06.15: BuySide Realty launches in Seattle, Redfin puts freeze on new listings due to problems in new markets
2007.06.08: A look at FSBO home sales in Madison, WI
2007.06.03: Appraisers sue over digitized substitute
2007.06.02: For potential home buyers surfing the Net, first impressions are lasting. Make your listing photos sparkle.
2007.05.29: Property’s strong run is not represented in portfolios
2007.05.29: How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
2007.05.29: Information Aggregation
2007.05.29: Case-Shiller Home Price Indices
2007.05.25: Online Marketing: Commentary on Local vs National Traffic
2007.05.24: Trulia Raises another $10M in Venture Capital Funds
2007.05.17: Fun With Housing Charts
2007.05.13: Chipping Away At Realtors' Six Percent
2007.05.13: Growing support for flat broker fees
2007.05.03: Reaching the Unreachable
2007.05.01: The Hedonism Index
2007.04.20: Subprime assault on southern California
2007.03.25: Coldwell Banker Sells Virtual Land in Second Life
2007.03.22: America's Housing Market: Cracks in the Facade
2007.03.21: The New Real Estate
2007.03.20: How Redfin Wants to Shake up the Real Estate World
2007.03.18: In tough real estate market, appraisers under pressure
2007.03.16: US Housing Affordability Index
2007.03.15: Rules for Real Estate Agents
2007.03.10: "Conventional Advertising Has Just About Stopped Working...."
2007.03.07: Toll Cancellations Drop; Horton to Miss Projections
2007.03.05: Lawsuit focuses on affiliated companies; Brokers steer buyers to their firms for fees
2007.03.01: Notes on Homeservices
2007.02.19: Q & A with Jim Collins
2007.02.19: Zillow PR Push in Fortune
2007.02.12: Making Every Pixel Count
2007.02.11: More agents trying to market themselves
2007.01.31: Crowd Based Home Valuations
2007.01.27: Agents of Angst
2007.01.26: 25 Surprises for 2007
2007.01.26: Social Networks: Brokerage & Closure
2007.01.26: Advertising - LA Times Editor: "We are Web Stupid"
2007.01.26: Business Efficiency: Brazil's GOL Airlines
2007.01.25: Breakthrough Ideas for 2007
2007.01.25: A Snapshot of the Marketing Business
2007.01.05: The Difficulty in Counting Internet "Users"
2006.12.22: Bubble & Squeak
2006.12.22: 10 Best Places to Own Real Estate
2006.12.22: 2006 Brand Autopsy Top Marketing Books
2006.12.22: Mastering the Three Worlds of Information Technology
2006.12.18: Apollo Management to Take Realogy Private
2006.12.14: Advertising Funds: The Google Life: Treat Employees like Kids
2006.12.13: The Consequences of Marketing Hype and Flash
2006.12.02: Time to Move On?
2006.11.09: Do Real Estate Agents Have a Secret Agenda?
2006.11.07: The Top 10 Lies of Web 2.0
2006.11.01: IACI (Parent of LendingTree) Third Quarter Financials
2006.11.01: Newspaper Circulation Continues to Decline
2006.10.28: Notes on Housing Stabilization
2006.10.27: A Closer Look at New Home Sales Data
2006.10.27: Complaint filed with FTC over Zillow Service
2006.10.23: Real estate keeps boomers busy, study finds
2006.10.23: Why Fed Might Keep Rates on Hold
2006.10.23: U.S. Home Prices May Fall But Drops Will be Mild
2006.10.19: The Big Business of Second Life
2006.10.17: Title Insurers Paid Thousands for Lavish Gifts for Referrals
2006.10.13: Five Multiple Listing Services Agree to Equal Treatment for Discount Brokers
2006.10.13: Ex-Homestore CEO Sentenced
2006.10.11: A Critical Assessment of the Standard, Traditional, Residential Real Estate Broker Commission Rate Structure
2006.10.04: Real Estate Sales Data / Press
2006.10.04: Realogy Steps out on it's Own
2006.10.03: Real estate downturn hits real estate agents
2006.10.03: 'Human Directionals' Twirling for Your Attention
2006.10.02: Privacy Concerns Regarding Real Estate Websites
2006.09.25: Real Estate Agents vs. Net
2006.09.12: Exotic Mortgage Brokers: The New Boiler Rooms
2006.09.11: Freebie's Galore! Home Builder's Incentives
2006.09.07: A Closer Look at Housing Deceleration
2006.09.06: Who Killed the Newspaper?
2006.09.06: Roundup of Economic Indicators
2006.09.06:
2006.09.06: Just because it's not 'for sale' doesn't mean you can't offer
2006.09.06: Last Stand of the 6 Percenters?
2006.08.24: Lending Bubble?
2006.08.23: How We Got To This Point in the Housing Market
2006.08.16: Rising Inventories Weigh on Home Prices
2006.08.11: VC Views on Redfin
2006.08.08: McKinsey on the Continuing Decline in TV selling Power
2006.07.31: A Tough Adjustment
2006.07.30: Dead 2.0 Criticizes Large VC Funding of Zillow
2006.07.26: House Committee on Financial Services:The Changing Real Estate Market
2006.07.25: Anti-Discounter Law Looms in Michigan
2006.07.25: Zillow Lands Another $25M in VC Funding
2006.07.24: ABC's Streaming Video Advertising Success
2006.07.21: Senate Panel OK's Ban on Banks in Real Estate
2006.07.17: The Impact of Variable Rate Mortgages
2006.07.14: Austin Realtors Restricted Listings, FTC Charges
2006.07.12: Customers Talk Back: Jarvis & Dell
2006.06.30: Haefling on Housing
2006.06.24: The Lure of Overseas Real Estate
2006.06.24: "Buying a House Without Leaving Home"
2006.06.23: Former Homestore Executive Found Guilty of Insider Trading
2006.06.19: Consumer Federation of America Analysis of the "Real Estate Cartel" and "How it Can Set Prices"
2006.06.16: Real-Estate War Traps Consumers In the Middle
2006.06.16: The McMansion Glut
2006.06.12: Housing Leads the Economy Up AND Down
2006.06.10: The Values of Real Estate
2006.06.09: VC's Talk about Their Redfin Investment
2006.05.31: Recent Housing Data
2006.05.31: Redfin goes VC
2006.05.31: Cendant Starts Selling Real-Estate Spinoff as Air Leaks Out of Market
2006.05.07: Top Brokers Hire Coaches to Climb Higher
2006.05.06: Buffett on The Real Estate Market
2006.05.06: Google's Opaque Transparency
2006.05.01: Housing Futures
2006.05.01: LA Times 125th Anniversary Home Section
2006.04.21: Upset Before Settlement
2006.04.12: The Century 21 Harpy Ad
2006.04.11: More B-Schools Add Sales Courses
2006.04.10: "Google and Craigslist May Weaken Realtors Hold"
2006.04.09: Agents use Text Messaging and Podcasts to Reach Buyers
2006.04.04: Edina Realty sues for top spot on Google
2006.03.27: The Bid Whisperers
2006.03.23: NAR MLS Survey
2006.03.17: Agents Falling Short on Disclosure
2006.03.08: NY Times Magazine Real Estate Issue
2006.03.06: Lead Generation: Zillow, Homegain and their ilk.
2006.03.04: Looking for a Home? Start at Your Computer
2006.02.24: Homestore Aims to Renovate Sullied Image
2006.02.18: Bush Takes Mortgage Deducation Elimination off the Tax Reform Table
2006.02.16: Zillow Built on a Shaky Foundation
2006.02.13: A Tale of Two Markets
2006.02.09: Zillow Notes
2006.02.06: "Broker Commissions are The Real Component to the Real Estate Bubble
2006.02.02: Live in Oslo, Word's Most Expensive City
2006.01.24: Homebuyers Look Online First
2006.01.23: Real Estate Answered
2006.01.13: Zell: US Residential Real Estate Among the Cheapest in the World
2006.01.12: Lobbying to Sell Your House
2006.01.02: Owners' Web Site Gives Realtors a Run for Their Money
2006.01.02: Watch Your Step, Novice Home Buyers...
2006.01.01: New Orleans Housing Sales Are a Bright Spot
2005.12.29: 1985-2005: Buying a House is Less of a Byte
2005.12.28: Housing that has a Profit and Social Motive
2005.12.25: Richard Smith on the State of the Bubble
2005.12.18: Agents Aplenty
2005.12.15: Peltier: "tremendously inefficient business"
2005.12.08: The Next Revolution in Interactions
2005.12.08: Video Helps Open Market for the Deaf
2005.12.08: Paycheck to Paycheck: Housing Affordability
2005.12.06: Government Takes Aim at Kickback Schemes
2005.10.29: Four Key Factors To Consider When Hiring a Listing Broker
2005.10.23: The Unending Housing Boom
2005.10.19: New Texas Minimum Service Law
2005.10.17: New Construction Explosion: A Look At Toll Brothers
2005.10.07: Real Estate Market Cooling?
2005.09.18: Real Estate Live on the Housing "Bubble"
2005.09.01: Diller's IAC Enters Brokerage Business
2005.08.23: Bubble Metrics: Economists Handicap Housing Markets
2005.08.20: Hollywood Dumps Newspaper Advertising
2005.08.13: WSJ on the "Realtor Racket"
2005.08.04: When Underwater Lots Sold in the Florida Boom
2005.08.04: Luxury Homes
2005.07.23: 10 Steps to an Irrestistable Brand
2005.07.22: Vulnerable Mortgages and the Depegging of the Chinese Yuan
2005.07.21: Advertising: How Effective is this Ad, in Real Numbers?
2005.07.21: AEI-Brookings: Paying Less for Real Estate Brokerage?
2005.07.21: More on the Shorewest/Newspaper Circulation Lawsuit
2005.07.20: California Title Insurance Kickback Fines
2005.07.18: Denver's Housing Market Goes from Frothy to Flat
2005.07.18: Leon Black's Apollo Advisers Doing a Deal with Cendant Again?
2005.07.17: Realtors and Discounters Duke it Out
2005.07.11: Flipping Naples Real Estate
2005.07.10: Disputed Driveways and Title Insurance Headaches
2005.07.06: Iowa Cuts Title Insurance Costs
2005.06.26: Late Mortgage in California Fall to New Low
2005.06.22: Title Insurer Sues State Insurance Regulator
2005.06.03: How to Short a House
2005.06.02: Avoid Common Real Estate Branding Pitfalls
2005.06.02: The 5 Bedroom, Six Figure Rootless Life
2005.06.01: California's Agent Growth
2005.05.30: Middleman Now Rich Man in Real Estate
2005.05.21: Real Estate Blogs
2005.05.18: Pearlstein on Real Estate Commissions
2005.04.19: More on Housing Prices
2005.04.18: Marginal Revolution: Housing Bubble?
2005.04.13: Mainstream Media Meltdown?
2005.03.29: Laying the Newspaper Gently Down to Die
2005.03.11: Steep Newspaper Circulation Declines
2005.03.07: Warren Buffett on Homeservices
2005.03.07: Las Vegas High Stakes Housing Game
2005.03.01: Real Estate Speculators See Gold in the Boom
2005.02.20: Daily Papers face a Kodak Moment?
2005.02.20: Study: Home Sellers should be wary of agents...
2005.01.18: 13 New Year's Resolutions to Improve Your Advertising
2005.01.13: Fortune's List of the Top 100 Employers
2005.01.09: The Virtues of the Virtual Tour
2005.01.09: Seller Beware?
2005.01.05: Real Estate Marketing: Changing with the Times?
2004.12.28: Craigslist & Broker Advertising Strategy
2004.12.21: Interactive Corp to split into Two Companies
2004.12.21: Showing Followup Emails - Personalized Automation
2004.12.07: Professional Photography/VR Services
2004.11.22: Customer Service at the Apple Store
2004.11.12: Your Brand's Phone Voice
2004.11.12: Passing the Crown
2004.11.10: New Reports: Real Estate Market Share & Market Penetration
2004.11.10: Best Buy: Devil Patrons
2004.11.04: Interactive Corp EarningsCast - MP3
2004.10.25: Recruiting Tools
2004.10.24: Homefinder
2004.10.22: Neighborhood Watch
2004.10.14: Advertising: Watch Your Print Spending vis a vis Circulation Numbers
2004.10.07: Radio Advertising Tips
2004.10.06: CMA [PDF]
2004.10.06: Brochures [PDF]
2004.10.05: What is Main Street?
2004.10.04: Advertising Management Overview
2004.10.03: Personal Agent Web Sites

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