Millienials - or anyone feeling priced out - really should support permissive housing policy to help keep a throttle on prices. Here's evidence showing that faster-growing cities have more-modest price increases, although this chart is older (prices over last 5 years...
NIMBY-ism has served baby boomers and the one-percenters quite well. But eventually the baby boomers will give way, and younger people will take over - will they demand more housing be built, or just pay the prices we leave them?...
The population of aging baby boomers in California will double by 2050. Downsizing will be a hot topic, and one-story homes will be very popular! Will we see baby-boomer communes? From the beach party movies of the 1960s to the hippies of the 1970s and Silicon...
These 3D viewers are already available, and could cause agents to skip the fancy movie-like home tours and just choose reality.....or some combo? Homebuyers in less than ten years’ time will visit properties remotely through virtual reality devices - and check out...
This real estate video has a typical opening for the first minute, but then they take it to new level of creativity. The list price is $55,000,000, so it deserves the full treatment, but eventually we should see clever, high-quality real estate movies from every...
The Zillow tagline this year is that they have the best agents - Spence says it twice in a row here. Nobody else in the business gets as much exposure as him, so we should keep hearing it, which should cause more consumer trust and engagement - with Zillow agents....
China's leading international real estate show is coming up next month. The 11th Annual Overseas Property & Immigration & Investment Exhibition will be March 5-7 at the Shanghai International Conference Center Natatorium. It is the #1 real estate exhibition...
Two videos - the first by Zillow, which is another heart-string tugger, and the second by Realtor.com, a 'mockumentary' which provides no real proof or explanations - and never mentions that the reason Zillow is missing a few listings is because realtors refuse to...
We heard about the GSDAR suing Sandicor and the other two realtor associations, which still seems ridiculous - aren't us agents all on the same team here? Oscar left this comment last night: I was at a meeting of brokers set up by Sandicor at the Sheraton in La Jolla...
Spence lays out his 10-year vision for the Z team:
