The Curse of Experience, the Real Estate Edition
I was recently at a real estate conference for a major brand watching a panel discussion. I’m leaving names out because it’s not important to the question/point I’m making and […]
60% of Home Sales by 2024 Will be iBuyer: For My Friend James Dwiggins
Okay, so just had an exchange on the Book of Faces with my good friend, James Dwiggins, the CEO of NextHome. He’s really one of the smartest and nicest guys […]
Important Lesson for Brokerages from Opendoor’s Eric Wu
Over the weekend, I saw a video from a session at Startup Grind Global Conference in which Eric Wu, the CEO and Co-Founder of Opendoor.com, was interviewed by Elad Gil […]
Gotterdammerung: A Very Serious Legal Threat
I realize I just posted on the future of the MLS, and normally, I’d let posts sit for a few days to “mature” but this is far too big an […]
Homeowners Net More Selling to Zillow Than With a REALTOR
(Pardon me a moment while I go put on my asbestos suit for the inevitable flames coming my way.) The Zillow Group Q4/2018 earnings call yesterday was a shocker in […]
What Everybody is Missing On Vaynerchukgate
Unless you have been living under a rock, you’ve seen the recent brouhaha over the video of a podcast Gary Vaynerchuk’s video where he completely shits on homeownership. In case […]
Negative Space: Reffkin and Schneider on the Future of Brokerages
It’s been over a week since I thawed out from the polar vortex that was Inman Connect NYC. I realize that people in Chicago and elsewhere in the Midwest would […]
A Mission for YPN, If You Choose to Accept It…
It’s been a good long while, I know, and I apologize. But life has become a bit insane, with travel, client work, and of course, writing a 90-page report on […]
The Machine and the Real Estate Agent
I’m taking a break from writing my February report, and thought I’d think through something with you all. It’s not directly relevant to my Red Dot topic, but it’s so […]
Seven Predictions for 2019: K-Pop Edition
[Posted earlier at Inman News; now that it’s actually 2019, figured it was safe to post to my site for posterity.] So it turns out that I started doing musical […]
