The California Association of Realtors is pushing a new proposal: C.A.R.’s Portability Initiative would allow homeowners 55 years of age or older to transfer some of their Proposition 13 property tax base to a home of any price, located anywhere in the state, any...
This has to be one of the most irresponsible pieces of propaganda ever distributed by a trade group who is supposed to be helping their members. Declaring that people will lose more than 10% of your home's value is pure scare tactics, and it could cause a...
The N.A.R. Annual Conference is wrapping up this weekend. Yunnie revealed the N.A.R. Forecast for next year: Existing-home sales will finish 2017 at a pace of 5.47 million, the best volume in 11 years, but only a scant 0.4 percent higher than last year’s 5.45...
In spite of his cheesy style and odds stacked heavily against him, Greg is still pushing for his realtor-owned search portal to take over the internet. He is shooting for $1,100,000 in donations to make it happen, and so far he's generated $241,000 - more than I...
Two things never discussed about off-market sales: 1) Every agent signed an agreement to share their listings with other agents. 2) Nobody reads the forms before signing. http://www.berkeleyside.com/2017/09/26/sell-east-bay-home-off-market-probably-not-exceptions/...
The fundraising has begun for the building of the realtor portal: https://fundrazr.com/StopZillow-PreLaunchTeam Greg should disclose the secret weapon mentioned - because if the new website isn't substantially better than Zillow, then we are wasting our time and...
The realtor industry has given a huge head start to Zillow and the others, so it would take a herculean effort to build a new/better portal to squash them. Here is what Greg has said about the features to expect on his realtor portal: * A "secret sauce" differentiator...
The guy who started the StopZillow campaign wants to build a new real estate portal which would be controlled by realtors - he discusses the details here: https://youtu.be/rv2SiGrw870?t=2m47s An excerpt from the leadership team's email announcing that the pre-launch...
On Your Last Transaction...... The percentage of properties selling below asking price remained flat from last year at 36%. The percentage of properties selling above asking price increased from 34% last year to 35%. The percentage of properties selling at asking...
The Redfin IPO has been announced, and people are wondering what effect it could have on the home-selling business. Notorious Rob started with the impact on brokerages: http://www.notorious-rob.com/2017/07/the-impact-of-redfin-post-ipo-part-1-brokerages/ I agree with...
