Realogy Corporation

Parsippany, New Jersey, United States
Realogy Corporation (167.182.124.254)

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Folks - Realogy Corp is Cendant - is Apollo Management
they READ my Sotheby's Post as soon as it Went Live.

My Mission is to Protect the Real Estate Consumer.

real estate exposed
This Stuff, Information on this Website is MY opinion
and it is based on my Experiences as a REALTOR, a Member of the
National Association of Realtors and my experiences now
as a NON REALTOR - Real Estate Broker Owner.

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There is Many Aspects to the Real Estate Industry
That Hurt the Real Estate Consumer and in My
Opinion, based on My Experience the Realogy Corporation - Cendant -
Apollo Management and ALL that this implies is NOT
Good for the Real Estate Consumer.

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Consumers that I talk to Are Shocked
that these local brokerages have the
same corporate ownership.

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These Real Estate Consumers thought They
were exercising their power of choice and
choosing a different real estate company
But in the Big Picture they Were NOT.

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Now if Each office is "independently owned" than
THEY may say Corporate is not the Real Owner>..
The Thing is the SAME people at the Top
make money from your Real Estate Transaction.

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Don't Believe me - look on line for connections between
Sothebys - Cendant - Travel Companies - Gaming Companies
Homegain - Realtor.com - Realogy - Apollo Management
Find Out for yourself and YOU decide if this
is where you want your hard earned money
steered toward...

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Also Today this IP address went to This Site
New York, United States

Sotheby's International Real Estate (70.42.218.157)

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and this was BEFORE Realogoy - so they must have called
them or emailed them a link...

I will Let you Folks know when they Try and SHUT me Up.

Sotheby’s Real Estate Brokerage Firm - the US Department of Justice - and YOU the Real Estate Consumer

Why does the US Department of Justice not look into purchases such as the 100 million dollars that Cendant paid for Sotheby’s Real Estate Brokerage Firm in February of 2004?

This kind of acquisition affects you the real estate consumer, in my opinion as a Real Estate Broker owner – yet No One is looking. No one seems to find this alarming – I DO. This acquisition and many like it do hurt the real estate consumer but folks in the know seem to, for some reason, just look the other way.

News Clip from 2004

“Sotheby's Holdings, the owner of the auction house, has agreed to sell its 15-office real estate brokerage firm in the United States and the brand's licensing rights to the Cendant Corporation, owner of the Century 21 and Coldwell Banker real estate names…..For Cendant, the purchase of Sotheby's International Realty furthers an aggressive expansion of its interests in the New York market, where it bought the Corcoran Group, one of the city's largest brokerage firms, in 2001. It followed that up in 2002 with the purchase of the Sunshine Group, a marketer of new luxury real estate. Over all, Cendant, through its NRT unit, has bought about 270 companies in more than 30 cities.” Link to this Full Article Below.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E00EED7153DF93BA25751C0A9629C8B63

http://realtytimes.com/rtpages/20040218_cendant.htm

They look into Yahoo and Google working together but not things such as this which directly affect the real estate consumer across the board. ONE company taking over such a huge corner of the real estate market means that they control what you, the real estate consumer thinks. They control lawmakers (believe it or NOT – just my Opinion), they control how agents in ALL their offices think – it is true.

The internet is a valuable tool, I know how to get real estate for sale on the Internet – easy and free – yet Corporate Heads at Cendant – Apollo – Coldwell Banker convince their agents that Realtor.com is where their consumers NEED to be and that this is Tried and True and is Very affective (It is affective for the Real Estate Website Owners in Which Cendant – Appollo – and NAR have part ownership in as well as sites like Homegain.

So when your Coldwell Banker, Century 21, ERA or Sotheby’s agent tells you that their marketing is tried and true and is better than your Idaho Horse Property for sale, for example being on IdahoHorseProperty.com THEY are simply feeding you a line to make sure they KEEP as much Internet Traffic to Realtor.com and related websites as they can because the really BIG money today is in Advertisers on their Website. And this has NOTHING to do with you Seller actually find and selling to you Buyer.

When One Real Estate Brokerage is as Large as Cendant is and No One is Looking at the possibly harm that this does to the real estate consumer, you – as a Real Etsate Consumer YOU are in VERY big trouble. You think your are exercising your right to Choose but instead you are going to the same company with your business. To Me this has Anti-Trust violation written all over it - but what do I know - I am NOT a Real Estate Attorney.