recycling week / tragedy of the half-assed REBNY public web portal
quarter-assed portal??
I blogged about the saga of the miserable efforts by the Real Estate Board of New York to create a single public website for access to REBNY member firm exclusive sales and rental listings in the May 18 portal potted / REBNY website to limp out in September.
I think this thing is a big deal (I blogged about it five times already, since it was announced in October).
I think this is a colossal failure by the REBNY leadership.
I am shocked (really shocked; not Claude Rains shocked) that REBNY started down this road (a worthwhile project) without assurances that all the Big Girls (and boys) would play.
I am mystified about the business judgments of PruDE and Corcoran (the biggest girls in the playground) to try to kill this thing by not participating (with their dominant positions of exclusive sales listings).
Manhattan residential real estate practices are still in the 20th century compared to America. The REBNY public portal could have drawn web eyeballs to a single place controlled by REBNY members (instead of by NY Times, or other “interlopers”). Without participation from Corcoran and PruDE, this thing simply cannot have the market relevance it needs.
Bah, humbug. A plague on both their houses.
© Sandy Mattingly 2007
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