{"id":6713,"date":"2015-12-20T20:25:05","date_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6713"},"modified":"2015-12-20T20:25:05","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T02:25:05","slug":"can-home-buying-be-brought-into-the-digital-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=6713","title":{"rendered":"Can home buying be brought into the digital age?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"http:\/\/www.betaboston.com\/news\/2015\/12\/17\/can-home-buying-be-brought-into-the-digitial-age\/\">Betaboston<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>ago, if you were involved with the Web in Boston, one of the people you likely ran into was a forward-thinking Cambridge real estate broker named Bill Wendel. In 1995, before most people had Internet access at home, he opened the Real Estate Caf\u00e9 outside of Harvard Square.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>&nbsp;Wendel saw the Internet as \u201ca tool to correct the problems in the industry,\u201d giving buyers more information and lowering the fees they paid as part of buying a home. But in 1995, there wasn\u2019t a way for buyers to search the primary database of for-sale properties \u2014 so Wendel opened a storefront where they could do that, long before Trulia, Redfin, or Zillow came along.<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Betaboston: ago, if you were involved with the Web in Boston, one of the people you likely ran into was a forward-thinking Cambridge real estate broker named Bill Wendel. In 1995, before most people had Internet access at home, he opened the Real Estate Caf\u00e9 outside of Harvard Square.&nbsp;&nbsp;Wendel saw the Internet as \u201ca tool [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6713"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6714,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6713\/revisions\/6714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}