Expedia Founder tries his hand at real estate "A decade ago, Richard Barton launched Expedia.com and helped transform the travel industry by handing consumers the same tools to book reservations that travel agents had long controlled.

Now, Barton is applying the same approach to real estate — and is banking on equally dramatic results."

Barton is hoping to disintermediate the real estate agents who for too long have had a monopoly over listings and commissions. That's free market enterprise in action. Barton has deep enough pockets that he can probably force NAR to compete.

Labels: monopoly, NAR, richardBarton, Zillow

  ¶ Expedia Founder tries his hand at real estate