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From the category archives:
After you go and hit the red button, you may be wondering why you aren’t allowed to search by such attributes as crystal chandeliers, hardwood floors, or indian burial mounds and poltergiest activity. Why just The Big Three? Well, it’s because OnMarketBoston has been built on the data that owners and agents actually bother to [...]
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I have set up a Google alert to be on the lookout for our company name (Boston Realty Hub) as well as a few word combinations I’m interested in lately, and Google alerts finds interesting things for me. This was a recent catch, from Tomas Frey’s blog. (He’s a futurist with an impressive client list. [...]
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The web invites us to do it ourselves.
A million how-to manuals. Buy wholesale. Comparison shop. Buy your own home. The only thing you couldn’t do, until BRH’s OnMarketBoston, was shop for an apartment on the web.
But you say “Waitaminute, what are all those databases I find on the web? The realtor databases? That big huge [...]
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Our technology allows our broker agents to post certified apartment listings to Craigslist in our template. We’ve engaged in some spirited debate with brokers and apartment hunters about what kind of information is needed in our template. We recently added links to help CL users flag redundant photos when they see the same photo [...]
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics
The personal is political. When we talk about a little thing like web-based apartment hunting, we find ourselves talking about the professional ethics of the broker / agent comunitiy, about how changes in technology produces changes in human behavior, and about the future of that change, the direction in which we [...]
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The Boston metro region rental market is like no other. I have family members who have worked in real estate all over the country, and none of them have ever seen a market like this one. Boston’s immense, transitory student population is one factor. The split between small property owners, and large building management companies [...]
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