#RE2020: Disrupt Real Estate
20 episodes - English - Latest episode: 9 months ago -Real estate is the Sleeping Giant of Consumer Movement! #RE2020's mission is to cocreate a new ecosystem capable of delivering billions in consumer savings by 2020. Share #GamesREagentsPlay with app builders & consumer advocates to develop reforms as well as money-saving strategies & solutions. Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
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RECartel Retrospective: Nader's 1st Speech to Buyer Agents 31 yrs ago
October 27, 2023 23:15 - 9 minutes - 9.09 MB31 years ago, Ralph Nader delivered his first speech to the New England Association of Buyer Agents. In retrospect, it was a "Coming of Age" for buyer agents and an occasion Nader used to call for a consumer movement in housing. Unfortunately, since then, buyer agency has been coopted and the affordable housing crisis generated more headlines than housing units. So, while The Boston Globe Spotlight focuses on the housing crisis we'll invite fellow real estate consumer advocates to aggrega...
FLASHBACK: May 2022, has full-blown price correction run its course?
July 19, 2023 15:40 - 5 minutes - 2.46 MBRecorded May 2022, does the uptick in prices being reported 13 months after this recording signal the end of #PriceCorrection2022 or a seasonal distortion before heading into a deeper downtown? Taking a #RETimeOut waiting for more data that will reveal #SummerSlump2023? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
30 years after buyer agency movement co-opted, is stage set for long-overdue Consumer Movement in Housing?
October 26, 2022 18:26 - 7 minutes - 6.56 MBOctober 28th marks the 30th anniversary of Ralph Nader's first speech to buyer agents. At the time, buyer agents were the rising stars of the real estate industry because they were committed to protecting and empowering millions of homebuyer clients, particularly first-time homebuyers. For the same reason, they represented a threat to the traditional real estate industry which leading consumer advocates like Steve Brobeck of the Consumer Federation of America called "an informal cartel." ...
Intergenerational perspectives on the housing bubble: learning from past real estate cycles
May 30, 2022 21:31 - 10 minutes - 9.83 MBIt’s only been a few days since recording this conversation with my daughter, and in that timeframe Fortune Magazine has published a story warning that a “full blown” price correction is already unfolding. Another leading real estate data provider underlined that conclusion by declaring the real estate frenzy is over. What’s your perspectives? If you’ve been through previous real estate cycles, what advice would you give to the next wave of homebuyers, #GenerationPricedOut? Let’s us know i...
Listing agents using "Underpricing-As-A-Strategy" to generate #FakeFrenzy?
May 15, 2022 17:35 - 4 minutes - 2.3 MB#PriceCorrection2022: After documenting a record high 1 in 7 MLS listings selling $100,000 or more over asking price, decided to tour open houses in one of the strongest housing markets in the Northeast, Cambridge Massachusetts & it's neighbor, Somerville. What I quickly discovered was surprising -- nearly every listing was priced below it's Zestimate; not just by $10 to $20K, but a deep discount that would send bids $100K over asking price. Why? Are listing agents using "Underpricing-A...
Terrible irony or Big Shaft? Why are 1 in 7 homebuyers paying $100K over ask when the Boston housing market is 14% overpriced?
May 13, 2022 19:24 - 3 minutes - 1.77 MBThe housing divide is pulling Massachusetts apart, that's the headline affordable housing advocates are calling required in yesterday's Boston Globe. But behind Kara Miller's column, The Big Idea, is a sequel to the movie, The Big Short unfolding? An epidemic of BLIND bidding wars caused a record high 1 in 7 MLS sales to soar $100,000 over asking price across Massachusetts last week, 4/30-5/6/22. Bidding wars of any magnitude were rare in the past. Writing 25 years ago in Behavior of Ho...
Call for Content to Protect Homebuyers, NCPW - National Consumer Protection Week, 3/6-12/22
February 09, 2022 19:17 - 30 minutes - 28.3 MBNational Consumer Protection Week, 3/6-12/22 is dedicated to educating & protecting consumers, but content related to housing & real estate has been notably absent in the past. Beyond #Homebuying101, are there urgent issues that need to be addressed from the homebuyer's perspective? @Redfin's recent survey found that 77% of consumers -- both buyers and sellers, say we're in a housing bubble, and @BankRate's survey found that 64% of Millennial homebuyers have #BuyersREmorse? Despite low...
Empowering Sellers to DSIY — Do Some of It Yourself
December 06, 2019 16:25 - 3 minutes - 1.4 MBA decade ago, 9 out of 10 first-time home sellers considered selling For Sale By Owner or FSBO. A more recent source estimated that number at 7 out of 10, but the National Association of Realtors claim that less than 1 in 10 actually sell on their own. What’s the disconnect and why, particularly in overheated markets like Greater Boston — Cambridge and Somerville in particular — where homes seem to sell themselves? Invite listeners to share this episode with anyone they know who maybe thinki...
Lost Cambridge: From the People’s Republic to Puopon Republic
May 23, 2019 01:21 - 5 minutes - 2.8 MBMedian single-family home in Cambridge is now $1.57M. What else have we lost? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
iBuyers disrupting agency duties & affordability
July 18, 2018 15:42 - 3 minutes - 3.7 MBOne issue stands above others from the first day of ICSF, and that’s the negative impact iBuyers are having on the role of the real estate agent and the obligation of society to provide a range of affordable housing opportunities to the next generation. Listen & share your thoughts by leaving a sound bite, or scheduling an interview on Anchor.fm. --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
Using #realestateFTCDOJ & #ICSF18 to revisit #RE2020
July 16, 2018 14:44 - 4 minutes - 4.51 MBCan real estate innovators & housing activists use podcasting to spread the “rising affordable housing movement” as @TheNation called it? Let’s use #ICSF18, a leading #RETech conference this week in SF, to update testimony on anti-competitive practices & barriers to innovation in real estate before the #realestateFTCDOJ comment period ends in less than two weeks (7/31) and the Realtors arrive in Boston in just over 100 days (11/2-5). --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com...
Coming soon: Consumer r/Evolution in Real Estate
March 23, 2018 02:21 - 2 minutes - 1.43 MBCountdown to 25th Anniversary of the Consumer Revolution in Real Estate: The Facebook privacy breach has exposed the need to move past agency disclosure to “Information Fiduciaries.” As mega-brokers morph into data companies, let’s talk about “Fiduciary Duties in Real Estate: Past, Present & Future” --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
Tax Reform: Impact on Housing?
November 27, 2017 23:02 - 3 minutes - 1.78 MBIs uncertainty about the proposed tax reform causing homebuyers to put their house hunts on hold, at least temporarily? That's what a real estate agent asked in a leading agent-to-agent Facebook. Listen to our perspective and share yours by recording a one minute reply on @Anchor. Alternatively use hashtags #TaxReform & #PredictRE18 on Twitter: http://bit.ly/TaxREcast18 If you haven't made up your mind, listen to the rebroadcast on WBUR, NPR affiliate in Boston: http://wbur.fm/TaxBomb U...
Best/Worst of #RealEstate ‘17
November 26, 2017 15:44 - 4 minutes - 2.1 MBInvite listeners to share their thoughts about the Best of / Worst of Real Estate during the past year from the consumer’s perspective. Am particularly interested in hearing from homebuyers & sellers in Greater Boston about their thoughts for 2017 and predictions for 2018. If you’re a professional and want to share your thoughts, let us know what role you play in the industry & sector (mortgages, buyer agent, listing agent, developer) and where. Let’s use #PredictRE18 on social media so ot...
From CustomerTech to HousingID
November 01, 2017 22:32 - 3 minutes - 1.97 MBCan #CustomerTech to create Super Powers for homebuyers? Let’s start with #HousingID, MeetUp at @NARannual in Chicago 11/2-6, #Nader in Boston 11/8 or collaborate on #RE2020 http://bit.ly/RE2020HsgID --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
Ask Sen. Warren Real Estate Qs
August 25, 2017 22:44 - 3 minutes - 1.89 MBHomebuyers, housing & real estate consumer advocates, bypass the overflow crowd at Sen. Elizabeth Warren's Town Hall by asking Q's on anchor. What policies needed to create more affordable housing? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
RELeadTips asks What's RE2020?
August 05, 2017 19:30 - 3 minutes - 1.59 MBGlad to receive 1st call on @Anchor from prolific real estate growth hacker, @Za_Hammer, aka Real Estate Lead Tips who asks "What's RE2020?" (Addressed that Q on posts in 2016 but haven't added yet.) --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
Real estate reforms coming?
July 19, 2017 14:18 - 4 minutes - 6.13 MBLong overdue real estate reforms are gaining momentum at the transaction level as new players tip toe into the ecosystem. Will policy reforms follow that address affordability, sustainability issues? --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
#SummerOfLove meets #CoLiving?
July 04, 2017 16:16 - 4 minutes - 1.91 MBListen, reply: Will #SummerOfLove inspire #CoLiving movement, BabyBoomer communes? Can NORC's (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities) create affordable housing, intergenerational win-win? #RE2020 --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support
Talking up: #GamesREagentsPlay
July 03, 2017 15:04 - 3 minutes - 1.55 MBAnything Goes w/ Larry --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/re2020/support