Real Estate Blogs "A Great Forum to Vent Anger"
The Wall Street Journal delves into the world of real estate blogs this morning, with a focus on their commenting culture, to see how they’re faring as the housing crisis continues. “Thanks to the housing crisis, real-estate blogs are blooming not only in number, but in nastiness, as thousands of strangers swap stinging critiques of…
The Wall Street Journal delves into the world of real estate blogs this morning, with a focus on their commenting culture, to see how they’re faring as the housing crisis continues. “Thanks to the housing crisis, real-estate blogs are blooming not only in number, but in nastiness, as thousands of strangers swap stinging critiques of high-end homes hitting the market.” The paper looks at the fallout from the jabs, citing one house seller who tuned in to Brownstoner and saw his property getting the royal treatment, from us and from the commenters, alike. “Readers quickly chimed in, citing overuse of track lighting and black granite and calling the border on the bathtub ‘hideous’ and the furniture ‘cheesy,'” they write. “‘They’re probably hipsters — people who live really grungy,’ counters Dr. Fernandez, noting that the bathroom tiles are handmade and the ‘cheesy’ furniture cost over $100,000.” When another owner wrote in to defend her property, she was welcomed and called brave by, well, you guys. That’s right: you can be nice. What the article doesn’t say is that we have seen community forged from these pages at events like the commenters’ party earlier this month.
Housing Blogs Throw Stones [WSJ]
I don’t read or post on any other blogs. I don’t want to escalate an already enabled addiction.
Yes you’re right on the mark crimsonson (are you the descendant of a permanently embarrassed Icelander?), people generally go to the professionals, the brokers. Because thats where you get the truth about the place they are trying to sell to you.
I actually agree with WSJ. Many ‘commentators’ in Curb and Brownstoner are typical bloggers – angry, bitter, high-horsed, etc. You know why? It is easy. It does not take any intelligence. There is no accountability. For all we know many of the commentators are renters in a sh!t hole in East New York with hand me down Ikea furniture.
You’re wrong. it takes alot of intelligence to come up with these comments. Have you been reading them? They’re sharp, witty, clever. An idiot could never think of these. They would just call people names.
After meeting some of the regular posters on this blog, I can assure you that the accountability is there. They come from all walks of life and professions. Architects, designers, lawyers, financal advisers, artists, etc. We all love Brooklyn and townhouses.
I met people that said they never posted on a blog before and this is the only one they go to (me too). We come on here to find out what’s going on in our communities, discuss and sometimes goof off.
BTW – Ikea rocks!
BRG – with all due respect – I don’t think BS and Curbed readers are the constituents of such seller. There is a large (if majority in my guess) that are rental here. And any buyers left are overwhelmingly the sub $1 million range. I really don’t think this is the place where high-end buyers go to when looking for RE – let alone opinion about RE. This is rental-low-middle market at best.
What I find funny is there’s no picture of the hideous bathroom but we all remember it. It really was THAT bad! For the record, just because something is handmade does not automatically make it tasteful.
Look, when something is posted here it’s so that it can be commented on. For every home decor I trash there are several I wish I had. However, when it stinks…I say Pewww!
Yeah BRG, keep it up and people will think you’re being outrageously inflammatory and provocative! 😉
Nasty indeed. I had a bad week.
What people like Dr. F don’t realize, is that this is great exposure for their property. It’s free advertising in essence. They don’t realize how many people read this blog. A serious home buyer knows what the comps are, knows that furniture is not part of the sale, etc., etc.
‘Still, he says his five-year-old son was thrilled to see it on the computer.’
Dr. F, should be careful what he shows his kid on-line, it could traumatize him for life.
A 5 year old could learn alot from reading brownstoner. Maybe, the what should start baby sitting.
Wht doesn’t the What ever post about the interior trappings of these homes??
I have to disagree crimson, I’ve seen some very erudite base comments on here.
This is all getting meta-referential.