NAR

Birth of a National MLS? Meet Zillow . . .

by Joshua Dorkin | December 9, 2006

Tim Maitski of the Atlanta Report predicts that internet powerhouse Zillow might creep into the national scene to become a replacement for the MLS (Multiple Listing Service) operated by the National Association of Realtors (NAR). According to Maitski: Zillow has the potential to be the standard national MLS system open and free to anyone and [...]

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Housing

Pending Housing Sales Index Up In August

by Joshua Dorkin | October 2, 2006

Pending home sales data for August was just released by the National Association of Realtors. According to the Pending Home Sales Index, “contracts signed in August, rose 4.3 percent to a level of 110.1 from a reading of 105.6 in July, but is 14.1 percent lower than August 2005.” David Lereah, chief economist of the [...]

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Housing

Another Edition of Real Estate Speedlinking: Friday News Briefs

by Joshua Dorkin | September 8, 2006

BusinessWeek Europe is reporting about the rapid shift in real estate broker advertising from newspapers to the net. “Three new studies say the $11.6 billion real estate ad market is set to shift hard from print to the Internet.” Find out more about how this move to internet advertising will affect the newspaper business. Canada’s [...]

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Blogs

Will Sell Crack for Food

by Joshua Dorkin | August 26, 2006

Keith at Housing Panic posted his Stupid Question of the Day, that I had to share with all of our readers. Crack dealers make money regardless of your personal well being. Arms dealers happily sell arms to both sides of the conflict. So, is the NAR now changing their tune because their den of thieves [...]

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Real Estate Market

Can Internet Behavior Predict the Real Estate Market?

by Joshua Dorkin | August 25, 2006

Andy Beal over at WebProNews points to a chart that the Bill Tancer at HitWise constructed that predicts an announcement that existing home sales dropped in July by the National Association of Realtors. Tancer “superimposed the monthly data from the NAR on a Hitwise search term volume chart for the search query “homes for sale.”” [...]

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