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Think of money as male and houses as female. Then the real estate market is just like the dating scene, where, basically, the money is looking for good-looking houses and the houses are looking for a lot of money. Maybe there's more to it than that, but not much more in the real estate scene.

So let's say we make a web page that lists money on the left, and houses on the right. So there are two columns on the page. (I currently have the left column created here already: http://patrick.net/housing/buyers.php )

Each house on the right has the exact address and maybe a thumbnail photo.

Buyers (the money) could then click on houses to indicate interest, and the houses would gain status by getting more buyers to click on them.

And buyers themselves would gain status by clicking on lots of houses, to show that they are not stuck on one house, but have lots of options.

Then sellers would have a motive to tell people how many interested buyers they have on Patrick.net, to show that their house is popular.

Could something like this work?

Maybe buyers really don't have any motive to indicate interest in a house in public, because that just raises the price for themselves. Or maybe they'd do it just to get attention and more sellers contacting them. What's the online equivalent of a man driving an expensive sports car to impress women?

Anything would be better than what we have now though, where realtors just make up fake numbers of bids ("OMG, there 2,323 bids on this house! No, I can't give you any proof, but you better take out a giant mortgage right away...")

Suggestions?

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