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#RE2020: Disrupt Real Estate

by Bill Wendel

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.

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Episodes

  1. RECartel Retrospective: Nader's 1st Speech to Buyer Agents 31 yrs ago

    31 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...

  2. FLASHBACK: May 2022, has full-blown price correction run its course?

    Recorded 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?

  3. 30 years after buyer agency movement co-opted, is stage set for long-overdue Consumer Movement in Housing?

    October 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…

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  4. Intergenerational perspectives on the housing bubble: learning from past real estate cycles

    It’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...

  5. Listing agents using "Underpricing-As-A-Strategy" to generate #FakeFrenzy?

    #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...

  6. Terrible irony or Big Shaft? Why are 1 in 7 homebuyers paying $100K over ask when the Boston housing market is 14% overpriced?

    The 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...

  7. Call for Content to Protect Homebuyers, NCPW - National Consumer Protection Week, 3/6-12/22

    National 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...

  8. Empowering Sellers to DSIY — Do Some of It Yourself

    A 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…

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  9. Lost Cambridge: From the People’s Republic to Puopon Republic

    Median single-family home in Cambridge is now $1.57M. What else have we lost?

  10. iBuyers disrupting agency duties & affordability

    One 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...

  11. Using #realestateFTCDOJ & #ICSF18 to revisit #RE2020

    Can 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…

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  12. Coming soon: Consumer r/Evolution in Real Estate

    Countdown 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”

  13. Tax Reform: Impact on Housing?

    Is 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…

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  14. Best/Worst of #RealEstate ‘17

    Invite 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…

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  15. From CustomerTech to HousingID

    Can #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

  16. Ask Sen. Warren Real Estate Qs

    Homebuyers, 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?

  17. RELeadTips asks What's RE2020?

    Glad 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.)

  18. Real estate reforms coming?

    Long 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?

  19. #SummerOfLove meets #CoLiving?

    Listen, reply: Will #SummerOfLove inspire #CoLiving movement, BabyBoomer communes? Can NORC's (Naturally Occurring Retirement Communities) create affordable housing, intergenerational win-win? #RE2020

  20. Talking up: #GamesREagentsPlay

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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.

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Bill Wendel

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