There are some very dramatic changes taking place the Canada's Real Estate industry that will spawn several excellent opportunities in this realm. Just to help folks quautify the opportunities ...
* There are about 150,000 real estate agents in Canada, selling about 450,000 homes / year. This is rate of 3 / year / agent is part of the downward (from 1 / agent / month circa 1986) that will drive "consolidation" in the industry over the next decade. ** (American numbers are about 10x, as usual, i.e. 1,500,000 Agents the majority of which are affiliated with the NAR ( National Association of Realtors ) one of the most powderful lobby groups in the US. * In Canada, 90% of houses are sold through the MLS system controlled by CREA the Canadian Real Estate Association, which has been in dispute with Canada's "Competition Bureau" over monopolistic price fixing, in 4 major battles during the past 5 decades. * Historically, (CREA which owns the Canadian MLS brand) has argued it "owns" the data, The regional (major cities) Boards argue they do, and obviously Agents claim to own it since veteran agents (the minority that survives the 60 month infant mortality rate) derive their living from "repeat business" * This is changing to reflect ... ** Canada's Privacy laws which recognize the seller (Owner of the property) as a "Subject" who is a co-owner of any data that is Personal (i.e. records that include Name & Residential Address fields). ** Real Estate agents tend to buy their software in a monolithic box set such as the "Top Producers" brand at about $1,000 per set and generally use it for Contact Management and to produce Listing Proposals. ** Technological change has resulted in "Data becoming ubiquitously available" from a growing number of reliable "Definitive Data" sources, making it possible for a Subject to access their personal record AND then pass it on to another user in the chain of events that support the Sale and Purchase of a residential property. For the record, my company "DataFix" was founded in 1992 after 5 years of R&D funded by one of Canada's "Big Six" banks, which booked $1,200,000,000 worth of new mortgages in a 12 month period. Now, it manages Addresses for many of Canada's largest enterprises and for the majority of the Electoral Authorities of all three government levels. Rather than continuing this monologue,. I'll simply conclude that this is a MASSIVE opportunity that I truly believe is ideally suited to be served by TW based solutions. It would be a genuine shame if some of the folks here don't take advantage of this chance to enrich themselves. On Friday, September 19, 2014 8:33:40 AM UTC-4, vpl wrote: > > Hi, > > I need to build a web site, similar to a catalog for accessing a large > number of pages that will be formated the same way (real-estate agency > portal). > The decision has been taken to use TW5 as a Database. For many reason: > portability, and ease to create new tiddler following a given template (for > non developper), portability, price, and ... stability !! > Nevertheless it's too complex for us to develop a front-end UI totally > based on TW5 to reach the level of look and feel requested. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
