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Homebuyer Tax Credit Extended for Some Military Personnel

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/25/2010 10:25 PM | Add Comment

Guest post: Buying Real Estate While in College: A Very Possible Dream

Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/8/2010 4:19 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Dissecting Local Real Estate Advertisements (LOL)

Posted by Pat Kitano at 7/7/2009 9:10 AM

Asbestos in the Home

Posted by Pat Kitano at 2/21/2009 11:52 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Consumer Internet Fatigue

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/23/2008 7:06 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Real estate is a prototypical free lance industry

Posted by Pat Kitano at 6/25/2008 9:47 AM | Add Comment

Adjusting the credit score goalpost in an upside down market

Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/8/2008 9:42 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

April housing market anecdotes

Posted by Pat Kitano at 4/23/2008 10:01 PM | Add Comment

The Alternative to Hard Selling

Posted by Pat Kitano at 4/14/2008 7:41 AM | View Comments (14) | Add Comment

Latest brokerage website trends

Posted by Pat Kitano at 1/4/2008 12:43 AM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Non-Transparent Services with a Shifty Smile

Posted by Pat Kitano at 7/10/2007 7:38 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Redfin gets fined for Blogging

Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/17/2007 7:29 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

1031 Exchange Companies are not Regulated

Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/17/2007 7:26 AM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

State of Silicon Valley Real Estate

Posted by Pat Kitano at 5/1/2007 10:39 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Future of Commercial Real Estate

Posted by Pat Kitano at 4/17/2007 9:35 PM | Add Comment

REALonomics

Posted by Pat Kitano at 3/18/2007 8:40 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Rules for Real Estate Agents

Posted by Pat Kitano at 3/16/2007 11:27 PM | View Comments (16) | Add Comment

Agent Recruitment & Technology

Posted by Pat Kitano at 3/9/2007 12:02 AM | View Comments (15) | Add Comment

Musings on the Wisdom of Crowds

Posted by Pat Kitano at 1/17/2007 11:10 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Skip Realtors, Why Mortgage Brokers need to Market Direct

Posted by Pat Kitano at 1/7/2007 11:10 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Zillow view from Wall Street

Posted by Pat Kitano at 12/13/2006 11:48 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Next RE Web2.0 challenger - Edgeio

Posted by Pat Kitano at 11/30/2006 7:45 PM | View Comments (13) | Add Comment | Trackbacks

More Web2.0 Competition: MLS-2.com

Posted by Pat Kitano at 11/28/2006 11:14 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

Followup - Real Estate Auction becomes front page news

Posted by Pat Kitano at 11/15/2006 9:51 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Real Estate Web 2.0 First Mover Advantage? So far, none

Posted by Pat Kitano at 11/12/2006 7:29 PM | View Comments (25) | Add Comment

Fidelity Title's encore act in their "Reach Out to the Consumer" strategy

Posted by Pat Kitano at 11/10/2006 10:13 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Disintermediation Effects of the Internet and the Outsourcing Movement

Posted by Pat Kitano at 11/6/2006 7:35 AM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

The Skinny on Real Estate Auctions

Posted by Pat Kitano at 11/1/2006 5:09 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Title Insurance Exposed! An Open Letter to the Title Insurance Industry

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/29/2006 10:46 AM | View Comments (24) | Add Comment | Trackbacks

Conversations with Joseph and the Nurturing of the Real Estate Blogging Community

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/26/2006 7:46 PM | View Comments (22) | Add Comment

Potpourri of interesting articles today

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/25/2006 11:11 PM | Add Comment

Remember Bond Traders? Vanished!!

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/24/2006 5:19 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Ten Seinfeldian Observations in Real Estate

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/22/2006 7:39 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Conclusion - First Time Home Buyers can't find the Blogs that explain how to Buy a Home

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/18/2006 10:02 PM | View Comments (13) | Add Comment

One Reason why there are Thousands of Home Listing and FSBO sites

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/16/2006 9:33 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment | Trackbacks

Condo Contessa tells me about Rentslicer

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/12/2006 7:58 PM | Add Comment

Addressing Two Groups of Readers with your Blog

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/12/2006 5:23 AM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

Carnival of Real Estate - #6 in the Blogger Starter Series

Posted by Pat Kitano at 10/10/2006 8:01 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Real time housing data is significantly more valuable than months old NAR data

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/27/2006 7:38 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

How Three Tech Guys look at the Industry

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/25/2006 6:36 PM | Add Comment

An Inventive Realtor's "Money Back Guarantee"

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/21/2006 10:08 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Why Blogging works

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/20/2006 5:07 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Five Days in the Life of Real Estate 2.X

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/19/2006 9:20 PM | Add Comment

Web 2.0 Real Estate Sites Aggregating User Support Content

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/16/2006 10:48 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Reasons why it is so Easy to Hide Fees

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/14/2006 8:32 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Lead generation discussion clarification

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/14/2006 7:31 PM | Add Comment

The Lead Generation Poll

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/12/2006 7:49 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Generic lead generation companies make a play for Realtors with Suspect Results

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/11/2006 10:20 PM | View Comments (7) | Add Comment

Using IRAs to invest in Real Estate

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/10/2006 9:31 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

XBroker explains in great detail mortgage broker tricks

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/8/2006 6:47 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

A Dissertation on Leads

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/8/2006 5:03 PM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

Lead generation companies turning into Brokers

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/6/2006 9:24 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Explaining the MLS system

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/5/2006 7:27 AM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment

A FSBO seller relates what she did to sell her home - interesting practical details

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/4/2006 7:54 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Property valuation services in Japan - a step towards global real estate transparency

Posted by Pat Kitano at 9/4/2006 8:02 AM | Add Comment

How a Lead becomes a "Lead" - part 3 on Lead Qualification

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/31/2006 10:15 PM | View Comments (4) | Add Comment

Home buyers - learn the scripts realtors use to capture you as clients

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/30/2006 6:55 AM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

California house flipping statistics - interesting to see which counties have the most failed activity

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/29/2006 2:05 PM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Home Buyer RE Search Resources - Yahoo! Real Estate revamps site - try them all out

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/29/2006 6:37 AM | Add Comment

California Title Insurance rate schedules online

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/28/2006 1:55 PM | Add Comment

Appraisals - a guide

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/28/2006 6:01 AM | Add Comment

Investor frenzy is officially over

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/27/2006 7:58 PM | Add Comment

California Dept of Insurance Commish Garamendi continues attack on excessive title insurance and escrow fees

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/27/2006 7:34 PM | Add Comment

Another explanation from Fed Reserve Economists about why this is not an artificial bubble

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/24/2006 9:13 PM | Add Comment

Get Title Insurance.com - a new title insurance business model

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/23/2006 9:05 PM | View Comments (5) | Add Comment

Realtor.com - an advertising model for realtors

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/22/2006 9:25 PM | View Comments (10) | Add Comment

How Internet Lead Generation Shifts the Realtor's Lead Acquisition and Selling Process

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/21/2006 9:26 PM | Add Comment

Home Buyers - Know that when you fill out an Online Home Valuation/Mortgage Quote form, you will receive a Followup Phone Call from a Realtor/Loan Broker who Paid for the Lead

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/18/2006 11:06 AM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Where are the Contrarians in this Market?

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/16/2006 2:35 PM | Add Comment

Guide to Hidden Closing Costs

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/14/2006 9:31 PM | Add Comment

No Title Rep blogs? No Escrow blogs? Only one Appraiser blog?

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/14/2006 8:34 PM | View Comments (9) | Add Comment

An "Audacious Fees" story

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/14/2006 10:00 AM | View Comments (3) | Add Comment

"Manhattanization" of San Francisco

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/13/2006 10:56 PM | Add Comment

Home Buyer/Sellers start acting like Free Agents and a Big Opportunity opens for Vendors like title insurance companies to market directly to them

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/13/2006 8:52 AM | View Comments (2) | Add Comment

Links to Topical Articles on Closing Costs and Title Insurance

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/12/2006 12:21 PM | Add Comment

Japan's Real Estate Paradox

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/9/2006 6:49 PM | Add Comment

Real Estate How-To links

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/7/2006 5:15 PM | View Comments (1) | Add Comment

Commoditization of Real Estate Investment

Posted by Pat Kitano at 8/6/2006 9:35 PM | View Comments (8) | Add Comment
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