Blockshopper

Blockshopper.com is trying to make news out of residential transactions. The site has launched in Chicago, St. Louis, South Florida and Las Vegas, trolling the listing services and registries of deed to find what notable people are doing with their real estate.

According to Law.com, some lawyers at Jones Day are not happy that their real estate purchases are making headlines: Lawyers Shrink From Web Real Estate Spotlight. They have sued Blockshopper. Of course, that is just more publicity for Blockshopper. Not free publicity since they will need to pay the lawyers.

Will the suit go anywhere? I thought real estate records were public documents and open for anyone to see. So what is the problem?


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REIT.com

NAREIT has collected a bunch of information and sites under one umbrella site: REIT.com. (Watch out for the music on the opening page!)

According to SmartBrief:

"REIT.com replaces the existing NAREIT Web site, as well as the current Real Estate Portfolio and InvestInREITs.com sites. REIT.com is designed to be your central source for investment news, industry data, event information, Policy and Politics updates, as well as all exclusive NAREIT member services. REIT.com is designed with easy-to-use navigation that will let you find relevant content faster and easier than before."

I don't remember the old NAREIT site, but it is good that they folded more information into one place. I think they should kill the music on the home page and make the news available by RSS. If you jump to SmartBrief from the REIT.com site you can find RSS feeds for news.

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