Notorious POD

This is an experiment of sorts, but I wanted to record something where I am solo talking about one of my posts or articles or papers. I chose The Future of Brokerage white paper (free on Notorious ROB) as I've been getting questions about it from brokers when I talk about it on my presentations.

The Blueprint Sessions is a monthly podcast for exceptional founders of exceptional Real Estate startups. This inaugural episode features Bryan Copley, Founder & CEO of Citybldr (https://www.citybldr.com/​), a fascinating startup based on Seattle who is re-envisioning what a city could be. "We build technology that understands every property's highest and best use." Their story is one worth telling and hearing. ---------- A collaboration between 7DS Associates, Geek Estate Mastermind, and REACH Canada, The Blueprint Sessions profiles the people and startups disrupting the real estate industry and help them tell their stories. We realized that there was precious little space for startups in the real estate space to tell their stories to those who most need to hear them - potential investors, business partners, and forward-looking industry influencers who want to know what is next in real estate. Besides the financials and the strategy, we also wanted to explore the human stories of the incredible entrepreneurs who are making our future. We wanted to know, why did they start their company? What is it that they see that the rest of us don’t see with the same clarity? What do they most worry about and what are they most excited about?  The panelists are: - Rob Hahn, Managing Partner, 7DS Associates - Albert Hahn, ex-startup founder and ex-Head of Google for Startups Korea (who also happens to be Rob’s brother) - Lynette Keyowski, Managing Partner of REACH Canada, NAR’s accelerator arm.

In this episode, I speak with Dr. Jacob Faber, an Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Service at NYU, whose field of study is all about race and real estate. I saw him testify at the New York Senate hearings about Long Island Divided, and thought his research and his opinions would be enormously influential. I believe he has been instrumental in the actions that the NY legislature has and will take, and I thought to bring his views directly to you all. Bio: Jacob William Faber is an Associate Professor of Sociology and Public Service in New York University's Robert F. Wagner School of Public Service and holds a joint appointment in NYU's Sociology Department. His research and teaching focuses on spatial inequality. He leverages observational and experimental methods to study the mechanisms responsible for sorting individuals across space and how the distributions of people by race and class interact with political, social, and ecological systems to create and sustain economic disparities. While there is a rich literature exploring the geography of opportunity, there remain many unsettled questions about the causes of segregation and its effects on the residents of urban ghettos, wealthy suburbs, and the diverse set of places in between. His scholarship highlights the rapidly-changing roles of numerous institutional actors (e.g. mortgage lenders, real estate agents, check cashing outlets, and police officers) in facilitating the reproduction of racial and spatial inequality. Through investigation of several aspects of American life, he demonstrates that a pattern of “institutional marginalization” emerges as a powerful mechanism connecting segregation to socioeconomic disadvantage. His work has been published in American Sociological Review, Annual Review of Sociology, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Demography, Social Forces, Housing Policy Debate, and other prominent journals. Professor Faber's scholarship has received recognition from several organizations, including the ASA Latino/Latina Sociology Section, Association for Public Policy Analysis & Management (APPAM), Association of Black Sociologists (ABS), Integrated Public Use Microdata Series (IPUMS), and Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE). In 2020, Professor Faber won NYU's Making a Difference Award for his research and teaching on the hidden and unsettled causes of segregation by race. In 2018, he was named NYU Wagner's Professor of the Year and won the Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Research Prize. Dr. Faber earned his PhD in Sociology from New York University and worked as a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at Princeton University. He also graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with Master’s degrees in Telecommunications Policy and Urban Studies and Planning and a Bachelor’s degree in Management Science. Between stints at graduate school, Dr. Faber worked as a Senior Researcher for the Center for Social Inclusion, a racial justice policy advocacy organization.

In this episode, I interview Sam Debord, CEO of RESO, about a series that he wrote for REALTOR Magazine on the MLS. We also discuss RESO, real estate technology, data, and touch on industry happenings.

I have a wide-ranging and engaging conversation with Joe Rand, Executive Director of the Broker Public Portal. We cover BPP, Homesnap, CoStar's acquisition, Fair Display Guidelines, the fate of the MLS, the residential real estate industry, and have a fun discussion all around. This one is long, but I think quite enlightening if you want to understand some of the intricacies of the industry.

A conversation with Sean Black, Founder & CEO of Knock. We catch up with Sean after his company evolved into more of a platform for the bridge loan model of iBuyer, and get his take on not just what's happening with his company, but what's going on the industry as a whole.

In this episode, I speak to entrepreneur and longtime REALTOR from Toronto, Canada, Mark McLean about an innovative co-equity concept he's been working on.

This is a special pandemic edition of the Notorious Interview, which I am making public for everybody. With all that is going on, one of the things that people have gotten interested in is the question of security and home protection. It makes sense. Suddenly, the entire family is home, the kids are being homeschooled, and families have stocked up on water, food, medicine, the essentials. Many of them have started wondering, "How do I protect my family in case of civil unrest?" I have received several questions from friends of mine in real estate who know that I am a fairly serious shooter: I shoot USPSA, IDA, 3-gun (none of them well, mind you, but that doesn't mean I'm not trying), and have been interested in the subject for a while now. But that doesn't make me an expert, so I was leery of advising anybody. Well, I happen to know someone who is an expert (even if he hates saying he is) and is in the real estate industry after 27 years as a United States Marine, reaching the rank of Master Gunnery Sergeant, the highest enlisted rank in the Marines. One of his duties was to do property protection of senior officers, which means the personal residences of generals. There are, of course, other experts in home security in the world, but Jeff is someone who has been trained, who did the work at the highest levels of the military, and knows his stuff. I thought his perspective would be valuable for people who find themselves worried about protecting their families, so wanted to get him on a quick podcast and share it with you.

Due to incessant travel, as well as my computer dying for a couple of days, I couldn't get this posted until today. But the insights from John Campbell of Stephens, Inc. still remain as fresh as ever, especially as he reacts to what he saw and heard at the Inman conference in NYC. Take a listen!

In this episode, I speak with two smart and savvy entrepreneurs who come out of the real estate world: Scott Martineau and Brad Nix. Both have been agents who walked the walk, and are brokers who operate successful boutique brokerages. And both are cofounders of a new iBuyer aggregation service called Offerbarn. These aggregators ("Kayak for iBuyers") are popping up left and right and I thought it would be interesting to talk to Scott and Brad both, especially in light of my recent post on agents knowing that iBuyer is for real. They did not disappoint. So listen in on three guys just talking industry, iBuyers, changes, agents and brokers, and what is going on today in residential real estate.