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16th Anniversary: Consumer Revolution in Real Estate
Sixteen years after the original event in Boston, The Real Estate Cafe is celebrating the “Consumer Revolution in Real Estate” with the “soft” launch of our Real Estate Cafe fan page on Facebook and a...
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RECafe’s new Boston.com ad to feature “Best of Breed” money-saving demos
===== The Real Estate Cafe is working on new artwork to replace our existing banner ad on Boston.com’s open house search page. Do-it-yourself homebuyers and sellers, what kind of educational seminars...
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“Virtual REBarCamp” kicks off series of real estate round tables in 2010
Looking to get a headstart on real estate in 2010? Real estate professionals and software developers across New England are invited to participate in the 2nd Virtual REBarCamp, and share insights...
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Idea Starter: What if homebuyers & sellers managed their own data?
When the headline “Freeing ‘captured’ homebuyers” arrived in my email two weeks ago, I thought the real estate industry had just discovered VRM: Vendor Relationship Management (see series of videos...
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Open Data: What would real estate look like if there were no MLS?
Good morning, @_____________, First, thank you for taking a minute to read this private message. I appreciate the thought you put into your comments on Boston.com’s real estate blog, and have noted a...
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Call for Complaints: Top 10 Issues Facing Real Estate Consumers
Friday, Boston.com’s real estate blog screamed, Misleading listings have buyers fuming. The complaint drew few echoes; instead readers said, in one way or another, there are much bigger problems in...
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Bubble Hour using “unconference format” to engage, inform homebuyers
In August, we posted a comment on Boston Bubble asking if “the housing market already entering the beginning of an unsustainable burst?” Two months later, does this one-two punch validate our...
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Consumer advocates: What impacts are conflicts of interest having on bidding...
Imagine what would happen if the state of Massachusetts or your city or town imposed a real estate transfer tax of $50,000 on each transaction? Consumer outrage, right? Maybe even widespread...
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Seeding C2C / P2P real estate unconferences for consumers to connect, save money
The powerful one-touch punch delivered in national media this week against pocket listing and dual agency / designated agency will send ripple effects through the traditional real estate industry...
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Fuming with “Holy Anger”? Can Millennials reform real estate, expand housing...
Join us for a Q&A with @zillow CEO @spencerrascoff tomorrow at 5pm at the @HarvardGSD! pic.twitter.com/1Pxps6YlEs — Harvard JCHS (@Harvard_JCHS) February 4, 2014 The “double whammy” that has...
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Tech-Hub Housing: Tech invasion or labs for innovation, corrective...
“In Trulia’s hometown of San Francisco, tensions are high over the lack of affordable housing and the growing wealth of technology companies and their workers.” — 5 Truths of Tech-Hub Housing Costs,...
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Too many agents & too little consumer protection = regulate or disrupt real...
Too many real estate agents? Here’s one way to answer Boston.com’s question: a map showing the distribution of real estate agents across Massachusetts courtesy of Matt Carroll, a former Boston...
View ArticleFooled again? Let’s use tech to reform real estate / BLIND biddings wars
After nearly two months on the road, this April Fool’s Day finds me playing the Who’s classic to psyche myself up: Won’t be fooled again! / http://bit.ly/FooledAgain1978 As aging baby boomers know,...
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2016: Will Blockchain enable “New Deal on Real Estate Data”?
In what amounts to a New Year’s forecast, Brad Inman, publisher of Inman.com wrote on Facebook: “This coming year, more disrupters will claim a stake in real estate.” The question isn’t whether...
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How will AirBnB’s move expedite, expand uses of Blockchain in Real Estate?
Eager to see what kind of ripple effects this news will have at the upcoming VRM / IIW conference, and PersonalData and blockchain communities in Boston and beyond. AirBnB’s acquisition and 17...
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Join us for a Q&A with @zillow CEO @spencerrascoff tomorrow at 5pm at the @HarvardGSD! pic.twitter.com/1Pxps6YlEs — Harvard JCHS (@Harvard_JCHS) February 4, 2014 The “double… The post Fuming with...
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