Brokers in Blogsville
By Anthony Longo 29 04 2007 
The Globe today gave bloggers some praise on the front page of the real estate section. This is a big step in this very “traditional and NON-Real-Estate-and-Technology” town.
Bloggers headlined were: Our very own John. A Keith, Teresa Boardman, Dan Green, Jim Cronin, Stephen Meltzer, Joel Burslem, Brad Inman, Pat Kitano , us and two others in which we would much rather not give them the publicty.
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Agents are going online to get knowledge and information — and their opinions — out
That’s a definite no-no, Keith explained in his post, titled “How to annoy just about everyone.”
Over at condoDomain.com, another Boston-based real estate blog, Anthony Longo is writing about a warning issued by the Massachusetts Multiple Listing Service about using a new feature from website Zillow.com, which has emerged as an industry rival. Continued…
Source: Boston Globe
Nice write-up, though I’d say there are more than 40 - 50 dedicated real estate bloggers nationally…
Hey Jay thx! What do you think the # is now? You are probably right, but I was really just estimating that top tier and ‘founding’ blogging community. You know, RainCity, Sellsius, Inman, St.Paul, Curbed, etc…
Allow me to be blunt about something here:
The moment you say that we’re in a bubble (or any other vocal Realtor), we’re in a bubble, just as the President can not say we’re in a recession, or that there is inflation.
And let’s face it, the moment that we had people earning $11 and hour buying half million dollar homes, everyone with two brain cells figured out the following:
1) No controls on lending
2) No controls on spending
Those of us with slightly more than two brain cells noted the cover story in the Economist from last year, where they worried over the over-valuation of the housing market.
Two final thoughts:
I’d actually respect you more if you openly refer to those who think there is a bubble- being able to face those with a different opinion and allowing your readers make up their own minds on the state of housing market.
I’d also love to ask what the parameters where that you used to produce the NYTime’s image:
http://condodomain.com/blog/rent-vs-buy-tool-awesome/
Every parameter that I’ve used says RENT.
Hey Hank. Were you responding to this post or another post?