Comments on: MOVE.com – a strategic shift

By: EndTable20

EndTable20 — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 07:22:47 +0000

If it helps to clarify when Mr.Dalton joined Homestore/Move/Realtor.com:
http://www1.move.com/Company/PressArchives/PressRelease.asp?pr=20021002
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G1-92809383.html

By: Boomer

Boomer — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 14:00:18 +0000

Ardell…doing a bit of research would have been the appropriate step. NAR issued that piece in 2002 and it may have been logged on the internet through the NAR website at a later date in 2005 – who knows? We all know research is in order to respectfully convey accurate information. The facts would have been found on Realtor.com or Move.com. I’m just clarifying the history, as it stands, and setting the record straight – no offense intended for the error. My point was more directed at the acknowledgement and true history of the immense talent at work at Realtor.com, how change has already taken place, continues to take place, and how all the Dustins and Allans and the creativity and leadership in each of us will enlighten and benefit all as we share with each other.

By: Brian Brady

Brian Brady — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 08:29:19 +0000

The fact remains that the Luther hire was brilliant. Dustin’s seminar today was really super stuff.

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:55:37 +0000

Boomer,

Read the linked story on Realtor.org He may have been hired in 2002 as you say, but that’s not what the press release on 10/05 says.

By: Boomer

Boomer — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 03:44:21 +0000

Good job, Wanderer. You’ve got your facts straight which benefits everyone here. Ardell, history will tell you that Allan Dalton joined Realtor.com in October – of 2002, not 2005, and with him came an unbridled wealth of ideas, creativity, intelligence, experience, respect for change, and a vision for the future of real estate. He has been instrumental in encouraging and guiding Realtors to reinvent themselves in this everchanging environment to become the very best in adopting technology, to provide strategic and mindful representation for both buyers and sellers, as well as, extend themselves as a conduit of informative resources for consumers worldwide. With all due respect to Dustin, his impressive blogging, and creativity, give credit where credit is due with regard to the players of positive change and leadership in the course of Realtor.com, Move.com, and Realtors from the year 2002 and beyond…the adoption of change has been immense and the resilience and adaptation will continue. And yes, new players are always welcome…stay tuned!

By: EndTable20

EndTable20 — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 15:34:41 +0000

Hopeful am I, as well, but I strongly suspect that people like Allan Dalton will not allow Dustin or any of the other recent user-experience experts hired by Move, Inc., to stand in the way of their ego-centric domination of the Realtor.com business and image.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 23:09:25 +0000

Your first two paragraphs just above are accurate. But note that it says nothing about Realtor.com disappearing or folding into Move.com.

Realtor.com is technically the NAR’s Web site, administered (but not owned) by Move, and as such won’t be seeing FSBOs or other similar features any time soon. Move, Inc., intends to consolidate Homestore.com, HomeBuilder.com, and RentNet.com into the new Move.com site, while also continuing forward with WelcomeWagon.com and Realtor.com — effectively consolidating their consumer-facing Web site presence (for the most part) down to these three sites.

Move.com will, as described on the current Move.com page, attempt to do most of what Realtor.com does, while also adding all of those other sorts of listings that you mention (FSBOs, etc.) which the NAR won’t as yet go for on Realtor.com, thus becoming “the Internet’s most comprehensive search for residential properties” in ways beyond what Realtor.com currently can due to NAR restrictions. OTOH, Move can’t simply lose Realtor.com in favor of Move.com, since all that listing data is contracted to Realtor.com…

See http://ir.homestore.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=111114&p=IROL-newsArticle&t=Regular&id=820658 for some of those details.

It will be interesting to see how the relationship between Move.com and Realtor.com evolves as Move.com comes out and NAR watches it alongside Realtor.com…

By: ARDELL

ARDELL — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 16:41:10 +0000

Wanderer, If you go to move.com you will see this message” “Move.comTM is the future home of the Internet’s most comprehensive search for residential properties to buy, rent or build.”

When I read “FUTURE home of the Internet’s most comprehensive search for residential properties”, I got the feeling they may be expanding into For Sale By Owner and limited service listings. Even now, many of the listings are not those of “REALTORS”, which is a registered trademark.

Just as StagedHomes.com had to change from “REALTOR ASP”, to “ASP Real Estate Agent”, I see the day when REALTOR.com has to move away from the trademarked designation. To date, court battles to use the term “Realtor” in a generic way, have failed.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Thu, 20 Apr 2006 03:56:50 +0000

Interesting stuff, although…

“The hiring of Dustin Luther by Move.com is as significant as Realtor.com BECOMING Move.com.”

This part sounds a little dubious, considering that Realtor.com is not becoming Move.com. Homestore, Inc., is becoming Move, Inc. Realtor.com is staying right where it is, as one of Move’s primary consumer web sites.

By: Evets

Evets — Fri, 14 Apr 2006 04:26:22 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with Ardell. (Although I’m 50 years old) I’m just getting into the real estate biz. And the primary reason for my move is that I finally see progress on the technology side of the real estate equation.

I wholeheartedly embrace Dustin’s move to MOVE.com and hope the heck he is able to shoot out the traditional model and help usher in the new age of transactions based on public information instead of secrecy and shadows.