Title says it all...is The Real Deal worth paying a subscription amount? Let's assume you cannot expense subscriptions to your company.
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Gladly, it's only $7.50 a month. So now I have one or two less cups of coffee.
Of course, I should have mentioned that it's not going to break the bank by any means. It's more of a personal view that everything good/free becomes a cash grab after a while and was more curious if the content is really worth any amount of money. Some is great, some is worthless (in my own opinion).
Seems like every news site is going the paywall route. I’ll pay for TRD. Best RE coverage.
I probably won't. I only use it to distract myself and procrastinate. It's a great platform for brokers to brag about sales, and the rest of its content is self-promotional or useless/.
I try and check up on TRD everyday. Don’t see it as a self promotion/“useless” website.
If that’s the case, what’s your favorite real estate publication?
I do, too, but not for informational purposes.
Browse the content. 90% of it is about brokers, or information a broker would care to promote. What gets sold and by whom. What firms are selling the most product. Which brokerages are poaching which brokers. On rare occasions you get interesting, better researched articles or even analysis about developers, contractors, and city officials, but for the most part it is a gossip rag for the brokerage industry.
As of this morning at 10am, the most recent headlines above the break include two about brokers leaving/joining a firm, four about condo/home sales, one about a lawsuit against a broker being dismissed, one about a brokerage expanding its coverage, and coverage of NYCHA privatization. That is, four are explicitly about brokers, four deal with challenges that, while not specific to brokers, are often written from that perspective, and one general interest piece for the NYC area. A lot of the other coverage goes to new construction permits filed. As a developer, the shallowness of the perspective of everything except broker gossip makes it pretty clear that the site/print issue are meant to keep brokers apprised of what is going on in the market without actually exploring what any of it means in a larger contextual sense.
Yeah. Rant over, sorry. It's good for what it is, but I prefer to get my information on my market from other developers, municipal officials, consultants, etc. You get a more nuanced read on whats going on than from a blog. I know that is a super condescending attitude, btw. Don't mean it like that, but its true.
If I'm going to pay a monthly subscription for real estate news, I'm spending it on something more data-driven like Commercial Mortgage Alert rather than a tabloid style outlet like TRD.
What's the cost difference between the two? I believe CMA is significantly more expensive.
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