32 completely different but interesting Commercial Real Estate sites

32 completely different but interesting Commercial Real Estate sites.

I know at times I have been somewhat “critical” of the commercial real estate online environment. Anyone can stand back and throw rocks. Diverse, social, educational, informative, worldwide, visual, tech edge, interactive. Here are 32 of the best in Commercial Real Estate. With [...]

CoStar Website Saga – Episode 4

In a post on the CRE blog Agent Genius this past Monday morning, author Duke Long listed what he believes are 32 key commercial real estate sites with which everyone should be familiar.  Notably absent from Duke’s list is CoStar.  No big deal.  Unless you work for CoStar, that is.  A CoStar employee named Scott [...]

Welcome MARKETWI.SE – Problem Solved (and my promise to you)

This is my first post here on MARKETWI.SE.  I am going to do my very best not to offend or alienate any of our early readers with the content of this post but I can’t promise anything.  I’m honored that John thought enough of my antics and limited knowledge of commercial real estate to invite [...]

Dream Stocks for Real Estate Investors?

This article from Motley Fool is positively idiotic.  It’s about a month old, but it just showed up in an alert today.  Here are my observations:

I like the assumption that real estate investors should also purchase real estate related stocks (this is at least suggested by the article title).  Nothing like a little diversity right?  [...]

Linked Data on the Web

One of the things I’ve posted about in the past is the future that data will have in CRE.  The example that I used is Loopnet.  Loopnet has data that is extremely valuable.  They have locations and values for all kinds of investment real estate.  If they would open that data up to third party [...]

LinkedIn/Loopnet Suffer From eBay Problem

eBay used to be the darling of internet companies.  It was a game changer, and it had the business plan figured out almost immediately.  But eBay isn’t the darling it once was.  The problem is that eBay has become so littered with crap, that it is impossible to find what you’re looking for.  And that’s [...]

Rofo.com brings aggregation to finding office space

This is a guest post from Alan Bernier, one of the founders of Rofo.com.  Alan sent me an email after reading my wish list for a CRE portal, letting me know about Rofo.com.  Right now they are focusing on the Bay area and its start-up-centric office market.  One of the things I immediately liked about [...]

Re: My Wish List for a CRE Portal

Following my post on my wish list for a CRE portal, I got an email from Justin Hu, a product manager from Loopnet.  Justin was good enough to reach out to me with an email that responded to my comments.  We then agreed that it would be a good idea for Justin to comment below [...]