Author Archives: Max Diez

About Max Diez

Real Estate Broker, Full-Time Blogger

The Real Estate Commission Debate Continue

Posted on February 22, 2012 by Max Diez

Last week Redfin.com introduced Redfin 3.0, we decided to focus our show around this topic and more importantly discuss the ramifications of this change and how it would affect the markets we compete in. Special Guest host K-Cee of BJP … Continue reading →

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Six Keys to a Great Site: Looking at Commercial Real Estate

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Max Diez

1. Parking. Little or inconveniently  located parking can be the kiss of death for a retailer. Most retailers want four or five spaces for every 1,000 square feet of floor area.  As many spaces as possible within 100 feet of … Continue reading →

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Facebook goes IPO this week? Let’s see who buys what in Silicon Valley: Real Estate Fun

Posted on February 1, 2012 by Max Diez

Max and EJ interview Ralph Migliozzi author of the book Collateral Damage Life as A Mortgage Broker. Ralph Migliozzi began his career in finance in 1982. After his promotion to management in the consumer finance industry, he moved to Great … Continue reading →

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Welcome Back EJ

Posted on January 11, 2012 by Max Diez

Here are some of the stats that we talked about on Market Street Radio on January 10th, 2011. It was provided by Altos Research for the city of San Francisco. To listen, click here Home sales have been exceeding new … Continue reading →

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Who Launches a Real Estate Business in This Economy?

Posted on October 4, 2011 by Max Diez

CALPMG Launches Next-Gen Real Estate Model PRLog (Press Release) – Oct 04, 2011 – It’s a counter-intuitive move. In a down economy, with a depressed real estate market, Maximillian Diez and Ernesto Pineda—formerly with Redfin, ZipRealty and Century Homes and … Continue reading →

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Renting Apartments: 2011 as the market shifts.

Posted on August 28, 2011 by Max Diez

Over the last 11 days, I helped a family friend of ours rent an apartment. The details of the apartment are not really that important what is important is determining if there were things that I could have done differently … Continue reading →

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Re-launching a site that has been 4 years in the making

Posted on August 17, 2011 by Max Diez

  Almost 4 years ago, I left a team in Southern California to venture on my own. With a number of companies in between, I find myself exactly where I started looking for someone to create a MLS driven site … Continue reading →

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So long Sahara Hotel: Las Vegas, NV

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Max Diez

Opening in 1952, many of the Strip’s legendary performers in the 1960s and 1970s which included Johnny Carson, Don Rickles, Tina Turner and Dean Martin. Continue reading →

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What’s on tap? New listings and Building a new house

Posted on April 5, 2011 by Max Diez

This year has just started and so many suprises are jumping up at us at the corners. I will have 2 new listings for the summer, one is a town home in the only gated community in South San Francisco. The … Continue reading →

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Three – fourths of the year ramblings…2010.

Posted on October 22, 2010 by Max Diez

The last few weeks has been interesting the SF Giants are on the verge of making the World Series, Bank of America has restarted foreclosing on homes, and of course 101010 occurred.  I have learned quite a bit this year, I … Continue reading →

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