I’ve blogged before on this site about the lack of value that Loopnet delivers.  As one more example of the awfulness of Loopnet, I checked my credit card statement this morning that is tied to my Loopnet account.  I noticed a $1200 charge related to Loopnet, which was surprising to me because I signed up [...]

Jay Rickey (@JayRickey) was among the Top 100 in my real estate Twitter rankings.  Beyond having Twitter juice, Rickey is also at the forefront of another issue that I am tracking closely now.  Rickey runs a web only media publication, which puts him right in the middle of the transition that is currently taking place [...]

From National Real Estate Investor.
The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International has released a new online report that provides comprehensive data on commercial real estate income and operating expenses by market, using advanced Web-based technology. Previously, the Experience Exchange Report (EER), developed in collaboration with San Francisco-based research firm Kingsley Associates, was available only [...]

Subtitle: Overanalyzing the heck out of the Twitter real estate universe.
Several months ago I compiled a list that showed influence of various blogs operating in the econo-financial space.  That post originated out of my search to make sure I was reading all of the influential econo-financial blogs out there.  A similar search has led me [...]

I think there’s a misconception among people who don’t use Twitter as to what you actually do with Twitter (I was one of those people until recently).  I have this discussion related to social media quite a bit.  My personal theory is that Myspace ruined the party (temporarily) in attracting new users to social media [...]

I posted a few days ago on the signal to noise ratio in Twitter.  I knew there were third parties working on the problem, but I kind of thought that it was something Twitter should be able to improve.  But the great thing about Twitter is that third party developers have such a huge role [...]

I have dipped my toe into the Twitter pond and I will say that at least initially, it is pretty intriguing.  I do have one small comment or issue though.  Twitter should be better at filtering the signal from the noise.  I’m a shameless self promoter, so I don’t have any issue with the Twitter [...]

Yesterday my firm announced its new Deal Breaker site and I was fortunate enough to get some really positive feedback from people in the industry.  The Deal Breaker site is sort of a toe in the water of using a blog/content management platform for our firm to promote itself.  The goal is to shine a [...]

Our firm has created a new site that will aggregate deal closings in our market.  It’s called Deal Breaker and you can visit the site at this link.  I’m pretty excited about this new site for a number of reasons.  Please check the site out and let me know what you think.  Thanks.

One of the comments pointed to Site to Do Business as an example of a CRE tool that is “not the dark ages”.  Ignoring for a minute my obvious exaggeration (dark ages comment), I will say that I am not impressed by STDB.  Feel free to check out the link.  I can’t tell if they’ve [...]