Matt Goyer’s Real Estate Blog

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Hunting for the home of your dreams? Coldwell Banker® allows consumers to search for homes with the “Coldwell Banker Home Search” button. It allows Dash drivers to access real estate listings and property details from their vehicle and instantly create a route to them.

We need to do this.

They’re $399 on Amazon…

If it was $200 I wouldn’t hesitate about buying one to play with. Maybe when I get a new car I’ll get one.

Recently the Seattle Times had a syndicated article on, Check out commute before you buy.

When you’re stuck in traffic burning $3+-a-gallon gasoline to creep along at walking speed, it offers time to think. Would it be easier if I left home earlier? Would I be better off riding a train? How bad will my commute be in five years? Would life be easier and cheaper if I found a job some place where the roads aren’t as crowded and the homes aren’t so expensive?

A new Web-based tool developed by the Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), a Chicago-based urban-development think tank, can help put facts behind those daydreams.

I checked out the tool expecting it to give me some sort of Walkscore like experience but for commuting but the site helps me answer none of those questions. I think I need a major in stats or something to answer those questions using that website.

The Center for Neighborhood Technology would be well served to hire a user experience designer or program manager to represent the average customer in their design meetings so that they produce something usable.

Inman, DOJ sues MLS in South Carolina:

The rules, the DOJ alleges, also “impose unreasonable objective criteria for membership and contain subjective standards for admission to membership that allow CMLS representatives to deny membership to brokers who might be expected to compete more aggressively or in more innovative ways than CMLS’s members would prefer,” which DOJ asserts could exclude such brokers or deter them from seeking membership.

I love it. Some anti-Redfin person (agent?) hacked my blog. I left the post because it’s kind of ridiculous. I also upgraded my Wordpress to hopefully resolve this hacking problem that has plagued me now twice this week.

Redfin encourages their buyers to LIE!!!
This is how to STOP REDFIN ABUSE, SPREAD THE WORD

Maybe next year we’ll get nominated once we add Chicago and a few more markets.

Ben has a link to a Washington Home Buyer Profile from the Washington Association of Realtors. Looks like Washington buyers nicely match Redfin’s target demographic.

It’s interesting to watch independent MLS sites get better. For instance, CTREAL, Connecticut’s MLS site, has search by drawing your own polygon.

Coldwell Banker has posted their new ads to YouTube (via FoREM.) They’re quite disappointing. I can’t imagine someone from my generation watching them and thinking that CBB was the broker for them.

Facebook gets tabs.

We had the debate one version ago about whether we should tab our details page or not and decided to take the Amazon approach and make it longer but didn’t rule out tabbing it in the future.