State lawmakers will be discussions this year to alter the image of the coat of arms to make it more historically accurate. A similar effort occurred in Baldwin County in 2015, in which the county's seal was changed that included removing the Confederate battle flag.
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Listings
With the M&A market for listings services heating up, eyeballs are worth a lot more than they used to be.
CoStar bought national search portal Homesnap for $250 million in November, pitting the CRE data giant against Zillow, Realtor.com and others in the residential game. CoStar also tried to buy CoreLogic and RentPath these past few months but failed in part due to scrutiny from the Federal Trade Commission.
But CoStar’s loss was Redfin’s gain: The real estate brokerage nabbed RentPath for $608 million in cash in April, expanding its presence in the rental market and bringing the millions of users on Rent.com, ApartmentGuide.com and Rentals.com under its control by 2022. Barely a week after Redfin closed on the deal, CoStar announced it was buying listings portal Homes.com for $156 million in cash.
Rich Barton
The lights were dimmed. Soft music played in the background as Dan Levy, clad in paisley pajamas, parted his lips and tossed his head. “I need a new fantasy,” he moaned.
“Are you in your 30s? You need something new,” a satin-clad woman purred in reply. “The pleasure you once got from sex now comes from looking at other people’s houses. You need Zillow.”
Rich Barton’s company had made it to “Saturday Night Live,” in a skit that went viral. Acknowledging the pop culture milestone, Barton tweeted: “Wait. Have we been marketing @zillow wrong all these years???”
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