Tag: real-estate-history
Future of Realtor Associations
Last week, I did a presentation to the leadership group of a large local Realtor Association and MLS entitled “The Future of the Realtor Association and MLS”. While sitting at the airport waiting for my flight, I read Inman’s blog post regarding the relevance of Realtors. As I contemplated the responses and my recent presentation, [...]
Posted: January 6th, 2007 under General Real Estate.
Tags: association, MLS, real-estate-history, realtor-association, realtors
Comments: 12
What exactly IS a townhome?
First, let’s all agree that a townhome usually has at least two stories, but you can have a “ranch style townhome” or “rambler style townhome”. Usually there is no one over or under you in a townhome, except sometimes, like in Sixty-01, they occasionally stuff a condo under the two story townhome. In the Seattle [...]
Posted: March 3rd, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: Buyer-Information, home, new-construction, real-estate, real-estate-history
Comments: 7
History of Real Estate - Part 1
Robbie asks: “On a related thought, how did people buy & sell homes in the “dark ages”? That seems more mind boggling to me than anything I or the folks at Zillow are going to be doing in the next year.”
Ardell responds: The first ever “recorded” real estate transaction, involved a “life estate” (not to [...]
Posted: January 28th, 2006 under General Real Estate.
Tags: agency, MLS, real-estate-history
Comments: 2
