[VIP] The Notorious Interview: Alex Doubet, Door
Today’s Notorious Interview is of a super-interesting, super-smart guy many of you probably have never heard of. His name is Alex Doubet, and he is the founder and CEO of […]
A Few Initial Thoughts on the Future of Buyer Agents
Happy Monday, everybody! I’m completely jammed with preparation for CMLS where something big is going to be happening. I can’t tease more than that, sorry, but… watch the interwebz later […]
[VIP] Initial Thoughts on Realogy’s RealSure
I’m on the road, so blogging may be light. But I thought the announcement of the new RealSure Sell and RealSure Mortgage programs deserved some brief initial commentary. I didn’t […]
The Issue with Brokerage We Don’t Discuss: Oligopoly or Democracy?
Over the years, I have debated the question of “the brokerage community” with people like Ken Jenny and Sam DeBord. It usually comes in the context of MLS or portals […]
The MLS: A Way Forward on Exclusive Inventory Strategies
In my last post on the NAR MLS Policy Statement 8.0, I wrote that offering a solution would take a few thousands more words and that I was already at […]
More On NAR’s MLS Policy Statement 8.0: A Step Forward On Clarity
(The following are the personal opinions of the author, Sam DeBord. They do not necessarily reflect the views of RESO or its members.) The “Clear Cooperation Policy” proposed by the […]
The Notorious Interview: Chris Drayer, Revaluate
So a number of you have messaged and written me to say positive things about the two interviews I did with Fred Bin of Zoom Casa and Rick Rudman of […]
Future of Lead Generation: You Say vs. They Say
Happy Friday afternoon, everybody. I normally wouldn’t write something today, but… I’ve been traveling and came down with a cold and have been wanting to write this for a couple […]
On California’s New Gig Economy Law: Don’t Relax Just Yet
I feel pretty certain that anybody that is reading Notorious likely already knows that the legislature of California has passed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) that tries to rein in the […]
[VIP] On the Realogy-Compass Kerfuffle
The battle between Realogy and Compass took a strange turn in recent days, when Compass claimed that they rejected a marriage offer from Realogy according to The Real Deal: With […]
