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The top 10 posts on ViralHousingFix in 2009

December 17, 2009

As the year winds down, I was curious which posts over the course of the year were the most popular. I was pleased to see that the posts that had resonated the most with all of you were ones that I felt like I’d achieved some clarity around an idea that I’d been working [...]

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A velocity-focused view of the home sales market

November 25, 2009

When thinking about the home sales market, I find it useful to look at the relative velocity of sales.
This metric captures just how significant the slowdown in home sales was over the past few years, and how strong the recovery has been in 2009.
Since 1999, the number of homes sold in October has been 48% [...]

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The anatomy of a market shift

November 25, 2009

Over the past 12 months, we’ve participated in a dramatic shift in the online market place in the multi-family industry.

As you can see from the table showing the performance of five top multi-family sites, the share of the top 3 has declined by 1.4 million unique users, or 21%, while the share of the next [...]

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A look at the leverage cycle

November 9, 2009

If you give people money to buy things, they’ll buy more than if they are using their own money. The less skin in the game, the more risk they will take. That’s the essence of what Yale economist John Geanakoplos calls “leverage cycle” theory. An article in the Wall Street Journal last [...]

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Capital, Media & The Future: An Outline

October 30, 2009

Over the past couple of months, I’ve sought out some of the smart people that I know in the media and finance business to ask them how they see the future of media.
The conversations have been engaging, but lack a clear consensus about how media companies will develop, and what the path to creating value [...]

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If only I knew when you were getting ready to buy…

October 19, 2009

My colleague Todd Dubner has posted two interesting articles on his blog, Being Present, over the past two weeks.
Both look at the dynamics of competing in online markets that have flat data as the core consumer information proposition. (My friend Doug Manoni of SourceMedia draws a distinction between flat data, which is easily available [...]

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Remodeling market solidifying around first-time buyer and existing home owners

October 7, 2009

The American Institute of Architects released their Design Trends study earlier this week. The survey was done this Spring with responses from more than 500 architecture firms.
One area of focus was on the trending of demand for different job types — a clear indicator of which segments of the market are strengthening and which [...]

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