SubscribeA leisurely ride through the Carnival
December 4, 2006
This week’s Carnival of Real estate was hosted by the Property Monger, and the ten winners are highlighted here.
Taking first position is Northern Michigan’s Stefan Scholl for his insights into NAR’s current legal woes. Stefan’s legal background helps us parse NAR’s recent setback in which a judge denies its request to throw out the case. In a nutshell, the judge agreed with the government that many of NAR’s online polices appear anti-competitive and anti-consumer. Sweet old NAR is anti-consumer? No….. 
In no particular order, Property Monger highlights these posts as well:
- My Resurrection Post, in which I thank the good folks at Altos Research for playing a role in my recovery from the Martian Death Flu and then return the favor by extending their analysis on the NASDAQ vs. Palo Alto home prices.
- Landlord Shmandlord talks about the pros and cons of making extra mortgage payments on an investment property. I found myself scratching my head at the example of a property with a $1000 per month mortgage payment and $2000 per month rental income…and then remembered: not everybody lives in California!
- Cliff Jacobson asks who’s going to win the real estate 2.0 wars — the National Association of “Hide the data” Realtors, or the “Give them data, sell advertising” approach of Zillow et. al. In that particular race, I’ll put my money on Zillow every time.
- Bryant “Active Rain King” Tutas shows how to get a listing at a saleable price…by playing on what sellers instinctively know to be true. BTW, I keep my fingers crossed every day that my wife won’t come across Bryant’s writings…I might have to get her (my wife) a far more expensive Christmas present than planned!
- Trulia borrows a page from Robert Scoble with its Youtube video interview of a Dutch online real estate entrepreneuer. Well worth a look: broadband penetration in the Netherlands — north of 85% — has effectively obliterated the real estate sections of most Dutch newspapers.
- The ever-creative Mary McKnight offers suggestions on how to “pimp your blog.”
- Pat Kitano dissects Edgeio’s acquisition of ARES.
- Sadie, another great real estate canine in the tradition of Odysseus, discusses how today’s changing market leaves buyers with more options…including, thankfully, not having to assume that they need to settle for just any old property that comes on the market.
- Athol Kay practices the art of the obscure analogy. He argues that blogging is simply much more effective advertising than more traditional media. Couldn’t agree more! I’m going to have to do some serious thinking to come up with a similarly obscure analogy for my upcoming guest post on his blog!
Thanks again to the Property Monger for all the hard work!
Tags: Carnival of real estate, National Association of Realtors, Real estate, ZillowComments
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