A gorgeous new version of Redfin.com just went online. The premise of the release is Freakish Depth: to update our website with up-to-the-minute data on every new listing and to provide more information about each listing and its neighborhood than any other website. We still have a long ways to go. But look how far… Read More
I had an egg sandwich this weekend with an oncologist who asked for a meeting so he could roll out a dozen ways to revolutionize the real estate industry. Just as the conversation was drifting toward other topics, including my love for beagles and their role in his medical experiments, he made one final proposal:… Read More
One of the best real estate blog posts we have seen in a long time cropped up on the Seattle Bubble Blog as the real estate consumer’s wish list. In it Tim Kane argues for being treated like a partner rather than a lead, for being able to choose the services you pay for, for… Read More
I almost left technology because I worried I would run out of ideas, which is really to say that I would stop lucking into situations where a great idea presented itself. So it seemed as if some pseudo-innocent, deeply cunning force had hit upon my deepest fears when the University of Washington invited me to… Read More
There used to be a tagline on Technorati that went, “55 million blogs, some of them have to be good.” We were somewhat comforted by that statement as we began to expand Sweet Digs, our local real estate blog, from Seattle to the Bay Area to Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. In only… Read More
What do you make of this: The New York Times reports today that a San Diego couple, the Ummels, is suing their real estate agent for allegedly failing to protect them from overpaying for a $1.2 million Carlsbad home in August 2005. The lead plaintiff is a 60-year-old university fundraiser who describes herself as “114… Read More
This month’s issue of The Atlantic reports on research by Cornell University’s Manoj Thomas and his colleagues which found that consumers perceive round prices, such as $390,000, as being higher than prices such as $391,534. Round prices were in turn found to be correlated with a lower final sales price. Professor Thomas’s research, posted to… Read More
Pay Green Bay Packer Brett Favre’s salary for the year – what I wouldn’t give to get him on the Seattle Seahawks’ payroll for Saturday’s showdown. Take a spin in the General Lee – admit it, you’ve practiced the smooth, window-entry move like Bo and Luke Duke. Spend a night (and a half) together with… Read More