Article in NYTimes about real estate blogs

I love this line in particular:

"Although not radically so, the blogs are also becoming more tasteful. Curbed has a feature called Price Chopper that before the downturn was illustrated with a bloody ax. Now that some sellers are taking a bath, the ax has been axed."

Speaks volumes about Curbed and the NYT.

Curbed, of course, cut out the price-choppers feature because their sponsors weren't enjoying news about the downturn.

The NYT doesn't even suggest that that might be the case. Rather, the NYT calls it a matter of "taste".

Of course, what is NOT news is that Curbed and the NYT are up the asses of the brokerage firms.

farquhar: I think it's a combination of taste AND pandering to the industry. The bloody axe metaphor was amusing when it was just an ironic poke at unrealistic sellers. Now that there's real blood on the axe, it's not so funny.

Yeah, let's talk about the "tastefulness" of a metaphoric bloody axe in a down real estate market while the vast majority of the real estate machine here in NYC openly lies, misleads and commits outright fraud when dealing with buyers.

I am sorry, but I have absolutely no issues with the use of metaphoric bloody axes or chainsaws for an RE industry and sellers that have enjoyed years of excessive price inflation (which is part to blame for our country going into a deep recession) and condoned or overlooked deceptive and fraudulent methods to sell their over-priced property.

If you think that we should feel sorry in anyway for the RE industry and sellers here in NYC, you have either benefited from this asset bubble and are afraid to lose your extreme gains or simply don't want to reap the reality of what has been sown.

There is far worse out there in the NYC RE world than metaphoric bloody axes...

"There is far worse out there in the NYC RE world than metaphoric bloody axes..."
Precisely. Price chops are no longer news, so they don't warrant the attention they once did.