Showing posts with label real estate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label real estate. Show all posts
Monday, November 4, 2024

Should realtors be required to multiple-list homes for sale?

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  The WSJ has the story: An Industry Dispute Threatens to Shake Up How Homes Are Listed for Sale. Some real-estate brokerages are pushing to...
Sunday, November 3, 2024

Real estate auctions

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  Peter Cramton points me to this article in the Orange County Register, about a real estate auction with a soft close, that ran for severa...
Tuesday, November 14, 2023

How have real estate agents kept commissions high? More on steering, by Barry, Fried, and Hatfield,

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 Here's a paper that offers one channel for how residential real estate commissions have been maintained at a more or less constant perc...
Monday, November 13, 2023

More on Realtor's contracts and practices, and the recent court decision

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 Here are some further articles with some details about the recent court decision that real estate contracts are anticompetitive . Both are ...
Thursday, November 2, 2023

Jury Finds Realtors Conspired to Keep Commissions High

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 One of the puzzles of the internet age, when you can take house tours remotely, and see house listings online, is how real estate agents ha...
Tuesday, December 20, 2022

Brothels reduce neighboring house prices in Amsterdam

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 There are many reasons why communities object to prostitution, and it will not surprise you to learn that it reduces house prices in its im...
Monday, June 6, 2022

A beachfront lot for you in the metaverse--or maybe an experimental lab

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  With Facebook transforming itself into Meta , we're starting to hear a lot about the metaverse , a term that may have been coined by ...
Thursday, June 3, 2021

Realtors still have a few tricks up their sleeves--"Whisper listings"

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 It once looked as if the growth of the internet, and increased access to home listing databases, would substantially weaken the grip of lic...
Thursday, November 19, 2020

Pandemic inspired changes in the economy that may last--real estate and medicine

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  In academia, Zoom seminars may coexist with in-person seminars long after the pandemic has ended. They aren't as nice as in-person sem...
Tuesday, April 21, 2020

Residential real estate sales, social distancing, and traditional marketplace institutions

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In some places, residential real estate is an essential service (open houses allowed) and in others not.  Virtual, internet showings are be...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016

Real estate symposium

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I participate today in a conference on an unusual (for me) subject: SPIRE AND THE REAL PROPERTY LAW SECTION HOST THE FIFTH ANNUAL REAL...
Thursday, November 12, 2015

Interview about market design by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts

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An interview about market design by the National Association of Real Estate Investment Trusts inevitably turned to the real estate market....
Sunday, September 20, 2015

The real estate broker cartel is tough in India

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Here's a report of real estate brokers in India roughing up the employees of a company that seeks to help buyers and sellers manage wit...
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Monday, September 7, 2015

How are Realtors maintaining their cartel (even) in the internet age?

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A new NBER paper sheds some light on Realtors... Conflicts of Interest and the Realtor Commission Puzzle Panle Jia Barwick ,  Parag A....
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Thursday, March 7, 2013

The market for air space in Manhattan

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The real estate market in Manhattan doesn't just scrape the sky, it hovers over shorter buildings too: The Great Air Race "Air...
Tuesday, June 26, 2012

The internet and the market for summer rental housing

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Along with all the first order effects of the internet, it has had big effects on small markets, like secondhand books and, it turns out, v...
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Friday, July 22, 2011

Real estate agents as middlemen

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A new NBER paper examines real estate agents in Boston: The Costs of Free Entry: An Empirical Study of Real Estate Agents in Greater Boston...
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Friday, August 20, 2010

Online real estate markets: Yahoo and Zillow

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Yahoo Pairs with Zillow on Real Estate Listings "The deal also helps Yahoo and Zillow challenge Move Inc. (MOVE), owner of Realtor.co...
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Monday, January 11, 2010

Mortgages, "strategic default," and repugnance

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Steve Leider writes: I’ve noticed lately that a lot of people (both public intellectuals like Megan McCardle and Rod Dreher as well as [othe...
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Thursday, October 8, 2009

Real estate; disaggregating a bundle of services

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There are cracks beginning to show in the way real estate is sold. For a long time, the only realistic option for selling a home was to empl...
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