My two books are in the works:
Real Estate Is Global
Summary
Real Estate Is Global
Driving home one day, I was listening to NPR’s program All Things Considered on the radio. A story about the housing market came on the air. It was introduced by one of the NPR announcers with an audience background in one synchronized monotone voice saying, “Real Estate is Local.” I laughed ferociously and bellowed back at the radio, “Real Estate Is Global not Local!”
Leong’s Law: As the number of connected users increases, the ability to discover and identify any real property information globally directly and proportionally increases which eventually causes all real property to be no longer local but global.
This book describes and depicts how real estate went from a local market industry to a global marketplace. It will also prove the law that all real estate is global and granularly details the invisible forces behind today’s Web in detail and how they affected the real estate industry, a global marketplace.
Table of Contents
- Preface
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- Why Read This Book?
- This Book’s Audience
- Organization of This Book
- Conventions Used in This Book
- Getting This Book
- Request for Comments
- Acknowledgements from Corey
- I. Introduction
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- 1. Real Estate: A Brief History
- 2. The Personal Computer
- 3. Here Comes the Internet
- II. Domain Name System
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- 4. DNS: An Introduction
- 5. Domain names and IPs
- 6. The DNS Effect on Real Estate
- III. The Web
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- 7. TBL’s Invention
- 8. HTTP, HTML, and Browsers
- 9. Websites and Web Portals
- 10. The Web Effect on Real Estate
- IV. Online Social Networks
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- 11. First Generation: Friendster
- 12. Second Generation: MySpace, Facebook, and LinkedIn
- 13. Third Generation: Virtual Worlds
- 14. The Online Social Effect on Real Estate
- V. Information, Information, Information
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- 15. Leong’s Law: Real Estate Is Global
- A. Appendix
- Glossary
- Index
- Tentative Release Date: Spring 2011
The Web Is The MLS
The Web Is The MLS
The life blood of the Real Estate Industry is data which is comprised of residential, commerical, land, rentals and other types of real property information. This data is aggregated and cooperatively shared by real estate brokers, agents, and consultants in a local system called the Multiple Listing System or MLS. Presently, there are over 900 different MLS’s in the United States with all different types of proprietary data.
At the same time, the Web has moved from a one-way, static conversational medium to a real-time commuication platform thanks in part to Web 2.0, the Blogosphere, user-generated sites like Wikipedia, and peer-to-peer technologies. Online users are now more active on the web and want to be involved and at the center of the content. The travel industry felt the disruption and now the newspaper industry is feeling the effects.
The Real Estate Industry is next.
This book will deconstruct the Web which is also known as the “Technology Stack” built on top of the Internet by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). By extending and reusing the existing Web infrastructure, online users will become producers of real estate data, communicate, share, and forever change an industry which has lagged behind in technological advancements for decades.
- Tentative Release Date: Fall 2011
