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The new year is upon us. What’s in store for 2007? Lose some of the Christmas cheer that has settled around my mid-section. Spend a couple weeks loafing on a Malaysian beach in February and launch the new sutton.com.
The site is scheduled to launch in March. We chose to build it on top of the [...]

Rob Chipman posted a controversial article, How Do you Get Good Real Estate Information on his blog yesterday. Since then there has been a torrent of comments that quickly turned into bitching about how the MLS is a monopolistic, walled garden tool used by real estate agents to keep them on the gravy train.
I’ve posted [...]

I have a friend, a real estate agent. My friend spent a ton of money on a website and hasn’t seen any return on investment. Sound familiar? Well, let me give you some advice my friend. Last week I said there are three fundamental things to make your site useful. They are, identity, listings and [...]

There has been huge growth in the number of agents with websites. However, I think a lot of them are getting snake oil when they think they’ve been paying for the secret sauce to online success.
At the last Vancouver Real Estate Technology Meet Up, I was chatting with a couple of agents about having [...]

Rob Chipman, a Vancouver Realtor and avid blogger has written an informative introduction on the MLS, what it is and what it isn’t. Many of us Canadians use MLS.ca to search for homes and we have begun to take it for granted for something it isn’t, a public utility.
This mistake in identity has recently prompted [...]