New Project Launch: Sound Housing Quarterly

By The Tim on Oct 30, 2008 in projects

One of the good news items that I have for you this week is the release of Sound Housing Quarterly, as announced on Seattle Bubble last Friday.

With this new quarterly report I am taking the experience and insights that I have learned from Seattle Bubble and packaging them into a more user-friendly, compact format than the Seattle Bubble daily news format.

Sound Housing Quarterly marks Thatch Mound’s first foray into direct consumer sales, a new source of revenue for the company. I expect it to take a while to get rolling, but since the only comparable report in the area—The Central Puget Sound Real Estate Research Report—costs twice as much and publishes half as often, I think there’s a lot of good potential for building a subscriber base here.

5 Comment(s)

  1. I think you need to badmouth your competition more. TCPSRERR is produced by the Central Puget Sound Real Estate Research Committee whose roster looks to be fairly biased towards the housing industry. Also their website sucks.

    Joel | Oct 30, 2008 | Reply

  2. Do you get your MLS data from public NWMLS releases? If not, have you considered getting a real estate license so that you can do your own, more targeted MLS data mining?

    Joel | Oct 30, 2008 | Reply

  3. Good question Joel. The NWMLS data that is currently being used is indeed from their public releases. I have considered getting a license, so I could have direct access to their database, but the main problem with that idea is that it would oblige me to follow their plethora of rules and regulations, or risk a large fine.

    One example of such a rule is the “no reviewing other brokers’ listings” one that got Redfin slapped with a $50,000 fine just for talking about listings in their “Sweet Digs” blog that weren’t their own. We do quite a bit of that on Seattle Bubble (mostly in the forums), so that rule alone is really enough to keep me out of the NWMLS.

    I do however have access to slightly more “targeted” data than what is included in the report, and should the demand for such data be large enough I may modify the report to include it.

    The Tim | Oct 31, 2008 | Reply

  4. Hi Time,

    You said a couple of items last week, what’s the other one?

    Stephen | Nov 3, 2008 | Reply

  5. Have you considered having your wife get access to the MLS and run queries for you?

    Joel | Nov 13, 2008 | Reply

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