<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml><records><record><source-app name="Biblio" version="6.x">Drupal-Biblio</source-app><ref-type>10</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Crowston, Kevin</style></author><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Wigand, Rolf</style></author></authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Use of the web for electronic commerce in real estate</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Proceedings of the Association for Information Systems Americas Conference</style></secondary-title></titles><keywords><keyword><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Real Estate</style></keyword></keywords><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">1998</style></year></dates><urls><related-urls><url><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">http://crowston.syr.edu/sites/crowston.syr.edu/files/amcis98.pdf</style></url></related-urls></urls><pub-location><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Baltimore, MD</style></pub-location><language><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">eng</style></language><abstract><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">In this paper, we will explore the ways in which electronic commerce, the World-wide Web (WWW) in particular, is affecting the real estate industry. Real estate is a promising setting for studying electronic commerce because it is an information-intensive and information-driven industry; transaction-based, with high value and asset-specificity; market-intermediary (agents and brokers connect buyers and sellers rather than buying or selling themselves); and experiencing on-going information technology (IT) related changes. In this paper, we apply a coordination theory framework to suggest where IT might change the process of buying or selling a house. Electronic commerce applications have the potential to drastically change current practices in the real-estate industry, including the disintermediation of agents. Web-based commerce is eroding the long-enjoyed information monopoly of real-estate agents. We illustrate this potential by reviewing a number of existing real estate websites that demonstrate the possible impact of electronic commerce on this industry.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>