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More ways than ever to find that dream house

Data-rich websites are changing the real estate business in a fundamental way

By Binyamin Appelbaum
Globe Staff / July 21, 2008

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In the beginning, home buyers hired real estate agents because they needed information. How else to know which homes were for sale? Or what price was fair? Or the proper reaction to a form that said your children might be poisoned by lead? (Full article: 758 words)

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