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Qube ExchangeQube ExchangeLaunched in January 2007, The Qube Exchange provides commentary and news updates on current residential real estate market conditions, online consumer resources and anythign real estate in general! Articles
The impact of social networking and web 2.0
2007-06-03 19:24:00 Social networking and web 2.0 as a whole has had a tremendous impact on the world we live in. It has opened up banks of once private information to the public, enabling consumers to make smarter decisions. Just take the real estate industry as a prime example. Aggregation has completely changed the game, making ... More About: Social , Social Networking , Networking , Myspace , Web 2
Talks about demolishing the Bayside Expo Center surface
2007-06-02 00:16:00 An article published by the Boston Globe reported that there are talks about demolishing the Bayside Expo center in favor of a $1b waterfront residential, retail and office development. The Bayside Expo center is apparently under some pressure with the newly built Boston Convention Center , which is less than four miles away. Here are additional ... More About: Property , Side
Relationships: A Hierarchy of Needs
2007-06-01 22:20:00 All business relationships require relevance, or acknowledgment of each others? contributions. To survive or generate value, though, they also need awareness of one another?s big events and accomplishments. Both of these needs can of course, can be filled by simply adding someone to an email list. But the base of the Hierarchy ... More About: Relationships , Realtors , Property , Ship , Relation
Troubling article in the Real Estate Journal
2007-05-31 18:22:00 Today I read a very troubling article about the subprime mortgage woes and the continuing impact it is having on so many families. The article was published by the Real Estate Journal . A month or two ago, everyone was blogging about this issue. You couldn’t visit a real estate blog without seeing at least one ... More About: Real Estate , Article
Time-Shares: Can Real Estate?s Ugly Step Child Play Nice?
2007-05-30 18:27:00 If you?re like me, you spend most summer days thinking about vacation. Recently, I finally gave in to my vacation dreaming by researching that ugly step-child of the real estate world - the time share. I know what you?re thinking, ?Time share? Ugh!?. Listen buddy, I know a scam when I see one and ... More About: Business , Estate , Real Estate , Property
Madonna Advertises Tokyo Development
2007-05-29 16:47:00 Check out the commercial Madonna shot for Brillia Mare Ariake. The development?s ?Just Perfect? campaign is a tad over the top?the Queen of Pop breathlessly alludes to the development as being ?beyond race, gender, religion, culture, and tomorrow?. More About: Property , Tokyo , Development , Advert
Agents Go Green
2007-05-28 15:58:00 According to an article in the Real Estate Journal, some real estate agents are going green in order to differentiate themselves from the crowd. Over 1,000 agents have taken a $395 class to earn ?EcoBroker? designation, which they display on business cards and websites. Many other regional initiatives are taking hold. The ... More About: Property , Agents , Green , Gent
Shrinking of the McMansions in favor of cottages
2007-05-25 17:12:00 There once was a time when every homeowner wanted a 4,000 sq ft home on a couple of acres, with 3 bathrooms, 5 bedrooms and a masterful gourmet kitchen. Perhaps similar to this: or this! A little extreme but you get the picture. Well more and more people are saying forget the upkeep and the hefty price, in ... More About: Sion , Mans , Favor , Ages
What?s your PropertyLife?
2007-05-25 00:26:00 Everyone has one: from the college rental to the first condo purchase, all the way to your dream retirement beach cottage. My Prop erty Life: I?ve been renting for too long. Why? My friends call it ?analysis paralysis?, or a general fear of the financials, risk, and commitment. When I am cured of ... More About: Real Estate , Web 2 , Pert
PropertyQube and Sellsius Meet-Up!
2007-05-24 16:40:00 Last night we had the pleasure of meeting the Sellsius guys at Fiddlesticks in the West Village. We spoke with Rudy and Joe about our new product slated for launch next month, along with their experience in blogging and the real estate industry. We had a great time and you can see a little clip ... More About: Property , Meet , Prop , Pert , Rope
Did 9/11 Trigger the Housing Boom and Bust?
2007-05-24 06:32:00 NPR?s All Things Considered did an interview on May 10th with the National Association of Realtors former Chief Economist, David Lereah. Robert Siegel put Lereah on the spot for his 2005 book, Are You Missing the Real Estate Boom , in which Lereah predicted that housing prices would continue climbing through the end of the ... More About: Property , Market research , Housing , Bust
Feedburner?s Big Day - Acquired by Google
2007-05-23 20:17:00 There has just been confirmation that FeedBurner was acquired by Googl e for an amount close to $100m. Read about this on Techcrunch. More About: Web 2 , Feedburner , Acquire
Going Green?.What Can You Do?
2007-05-23 17:44:00 We are constantly searching for industry leaders who bring the idea of green living down to something we can all take action on. One such leader, Yahoo. As you have read in a previous post on The Qube Exchange, Yahoo just launched a Green Campaign where users can walk through a virtual ?Green House? ... More About: Going , Goin
The World?s Most Expensive Property Markets
2007-05-23 01:56:00 Citi Private Bank and Knight Frank have released their 2007 Annual Wealth Report, and in it, they use property benchmarks to rank the world?s prime property markets. London, takes the title of Most Expensive , just barely edging out Monaco. New York comes in third, with Hong Kong and Tokyo rounding out the Top ... More About: World , Property , Markets , Market research
When does policing a community go too far?
2007-05-22 18:25:00 Last week, we posted an article about MySpace and how 6 states? Attorneys Generals released a letter to MySpace demanding the site take responsibility for sexual offenders. Well MySpace has agreed to give state authorities details about registered sex offenders known to have been users. The decision, announced yesterday, resolves last week’s standoff as originally News ... More About: Community , Myspace , Web 2 , Unity , Comm
PropertyQube Update - A Next Generation Real Estate Social Network
2007-05-20 23:51:00 So it’s mid May, and my business partner and I have been working (often day and night) to get Property Qube up and running for about two months. It has been an incredible and exciting ride. We’ve hit a few bumps along the way and redirected our product a few times, but we finally arrived ... More About: Social , Estate , Real Estate , Web 2
Dubai?s forward thinkers at it again with ?The Lighthouse?
2007-05-20 21:22:00 Another Dubai skyscraper makes headlines. This time the focus is on height and efficiency. The Lighthouse , which will likely be built in Dubai’s International Financial Center, will be 400 meters tall and will be a low carbon commercial building which aims to reduce its total energy consumption by up to 65% and water consumption by ... More About: Ward , Ouse , Forward
Agent Secrets: What they can?t say
2007-05-17 21:30:00 Fair-housing laws force real estate agents to stay mum on a few topics: crime statistics, educational stats, environment and demographics. So next time you?re viewing a house and wonder how good the schools are in the area, bring along your internet-enabled mobile and get ready to find the info yourself. The best agents ... More About: Agent , Realtors , Property , Web 2 , Secrets
Developers have their eye on Manhattan railyards
2007-05-17 16:20:00 Developers will soon have their chance to bid for space on the industrial far west side of Manhattan . The challenges are daunting: building over the rail yard, one of the last building sites in Manhattan, while the trains are continuously running. It is estimated that developers will need to spend near $1b just to build ... More About: Real Estate , Boston , Have , Rail
Clinton-Obama Alliance?
2007-05-16 18:58:00 Off-topic article but we couldn’t resist commenting on the current race for the White House. Hope you enjoy the article and let us know what you think? The Democratic Party may have learned something from the embarrassing losses in the 2000 and 2004 to G.W. The party?s front-runners, Hillary Clinton and Barak Obama , seem to ... More About: Alliance , Linton
Clinton?s Foundation Spearheading Building Makeovers
2007-05-16 16:08:00 Former president Clinton ’s foundation is spearheading plans to renovate city owned buildings with green technology in 16 different cities throughout the world. The announcement came at an International Climate Summit being hosted this week in NYC. The motivation behind this summit is the concept that major cities are overwhelmingly responsible for polluting our planet yet ... More About: Building , Foundation , Market research , Over
Speed Dating ? for Your Dream Home
2007-05-16 05:10:00 The Independent explores a hot home-viewing trend in the UK. Imagine a group of about 50-80 prospective buyers all viewing a house at once. The group, led by an agent armed with a schedule of destinations, visits a number of properties together. This may sound like home viewing caravans, or traveling open ... More About: Business , Realtors , Real Estate , Dating , Property
Therapy for Apartment Dwellers
2007-05-15 23:00:00 How do you cope with the fact that you live in a cramped apartment with a room-mate and endure the inevitable-and-always-original, ?You?re throwing away your money and not building equity? comments? Well , you can start with some Apartment Thera py . The blog covers design and decorating ideas to help you make the most of your apartment ... More About: Part , Erap
States Demand MySpace Take Action Against Sex Offenders
2007-05-15 20:18:00 This week, 6 states? Attorneys Generals released a letter to MySpace demanding the site take responsibility for sexual offenders who use the site. The AGs assert that MySpace has been working with a company called Sentinel Tech Holdings to identify known sex offenders on the social networking site, and that thousands of offenders are ... More About: Action , Myspace , Web 2 , Again , Pace
America?s high rise green buildings not as green as they should be
2007-05-15 15:38:00 High rise developers are increasingly going green. If you follow this blog, you’ve read about the Macallen Building we featured (thanks to the Boston Condo Guy). Developers are installing energy efficient windows, lasting fluorescent light bulbs, solar panels and green roof’s. On NPR today, there was a segment on green building pointing out that no ... More About: America , Asia , Real Estate , Green , Buildings
Yahoo Launches Green Campaign
2007-05-15 02:47:00 Today, Yahoo launched a major campaign to extend corporate environmental responsibility to its customers. The company has committed to become ?carbon neutral? by the end of this year. But today?s announcement of an online campaign called Yahoo Green challenges the company?s customers to take action in their own lives. The site lets ... More About: Campaign , Camp , Yahoo!
What Drives the Fastest Growing Metropolitan Areas?
2007-05-15 01:10:00 Harvard Professor Edward Glaeser, who is an editorial writer for the New York Sun, just published an opinion article titled “Fight for Housing.” The article discusses the rise in in the sunbelt population. Over the past several years, cities like Houston, Dallas and Atlanta were among the 30 fastest growing metropolitan areas, growing by ... More About: Business , Real Estate , Wing , Test , Fast
Glass House Opens to Public
2007-05-14 19:38:00 Philip Johnson, a provocative American architect built his masterpiece, the Glass House , on his property in New Canaan, CT in 1949. The structure is perched overlooking a pond on Johnson?s estate, and demonstrates a minimalist appreciation of its beautiful surroundings. Johnson was also said to have designed the house as a tribute to ... More About: Property , Public , Ouse
What happens when a city suffers from overdevelopment? Build the city in th
2007-05-14 16:29:00 Last night I watched Discovery Channel’s Extreme Engineering show on Tokyo and how the city is looking to bring skyscrapers and urban development to the next level. Right now, Tokyo is suffering from a major land crunch. How do architects propose to fix this…..Sky City . Standing two thirds of a mile high and as big ... More About: Asia , Japan , Real Estate , Over
Break from the blog last week
More articles from this author:2007-05-13 18:20:00 As you can see, we haven’t blogged in a while. My business partner and I have been incredibly busy but we are making some great progress with our start-up business. We apologize for the break in blogging last week. Thanks for your patience. More About: Break , Blog , Week , Brea 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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