During the Spring of 2025, I put this prompt into ChatGPT: “Draft a blog post on realtor associations and financial sustainability during a time on potential consolidation, risks to the industry, negative media coverage, and potential loss of revenue from MLS decoupling and the removal of the NAR three way agreement” I deliberately wrote...
Future proofing your web presence is not just a buzzword – it’s real leadership
The political business is rife with sayings of conventional wisdom that are either thought-provoking, like “Praise in public and criticize in private”, or darkly funny, like “If you want a friend, get a dog”, or both. A whole dictionary of sayings about leadership is also in wide circulation, like “If you are one step...
WP-API’s delay shows that the more things change…
I was going to write more about APIs and how they are not only the future of data on the web but also the future of data in real estate. APIs – in particular a flavor called REST API – allow for a universal way for devices, websites and databases to talk to each...
Organized real estate’s new best friend: the API
I’m working with a large tech firm in the real estate space to develop an API for tracking certain characteristics of real estate agents in order to display that information on a website in real time. There is a lot of techno-speak in that first sentence, so we will get back to it in...
What’s data got to do with it? In real estate, plenty
TL;DR Data doesn’t have to be Big Data in order to make a big difference. If you find the right data and ask it the right questions, the benefits go far beyond you own work projects. Here, we took two lists of data to find condominiums who may benefit from a certain kind of...