WellcomeMat, the real estate video tour platform, released a new version of their software today. Rudy from sellsius and I had a chance to preview their new release this morning.
The new WellcomeMat refocuses the site around the idea of channels, and now allows anyone to create their own real estate channel. The new channel manager [...]
By Joel Burslem on Thursday, March 29, 2007 Filed Under: IndustryTags: Industry, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-advertising, Real-Estate-Industry, Real-Estate-Marketing, Real-Estate-News, Real-Estate-software, real-estate-technology, RealEspace
Jeff, the Xbroker, has slowly been leaking details of his newest venture, RealEspace, over the last few days. What is RealEspace? Well, no-one really knows just yet, but details are emerging. From a recent post at The XBroker, Jeff describes RealEspace as:
* A Best-of-Breed user interface to search property listings, backed by robust demographical [...]
By Joel Burslem on Wednesday, March 28, 2007 Filed Under: IndustryTags: Industry
John Cook, Seattle P-I’s VC reporter, asked the public relations professionals at Waggener Edstrom (HQ’d just down the I5 from me in Lake Oswego incidentally) to come up with a media map of the media attention surrounding Zillow.
WagEd’s Narrative Network software data mined all the media coverage around Zillow over the last year to create [...]
OnOneMap is not a exactly a new site, but one I’ve only come around to reviewing recently. The UK based real estate site competes with others like Zoomf, Extate and Nestoria.
Renthusiast.org has covered it in depth. FT.com had some nice things to say about them too.
I’m onboard. OnOneMap has a truly awesome search interface.
I love [...]
I was interviewed for the Naples Daily News recently.
Burslem and others predict that the number of online video and slide home tours will multiply dramatically over the next couple of years due to several factors, including competition for listings and increasingly affordable and easy to use software.
You can read the whole article here, if you’re [...]
By Joel Burslem on Saturday, March 24, 2007 Filed Under: InternetTags: Advertising, Coldwell-Banker, Internet, Marketing, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-advertising, Real-Estate-Marketing, Realogy, Second-Life, virtual-real-estate, virtual-Realtor
Second Life (SL) is like World of Warcraft - they are products largely driven by virtual communities that have very quickly developed its own meta universes. They’re also kind of like twitter (you can follow me here) - I don’t really get it.
But I’m probably alone here. Thousands, if not millions of people are using [...]
Big news from Trulia today. They’ve really been on a roll lately and this one more feather for them to stick in their cap. Congrats to Pete and Sami, they’ve pulled off a real coup.
Trulia Selected by REBNY to Power New Residential Listings Portal for New York
The new portal will bring together residential property listings [...]
Windows Live is the red-headed stepchild of online search. Which is too bad, because I really like the site.
Microsoft is doing some really innovative stuff on this site (see Microsoft Virtual Earth Delivers 3D Advertising), and their Live search for mobile product (wls.live.com) is really kickass - it blows Google Mobile away, in my opinion.
But [...]
By Joel Burslem on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Filed Under: InternetTags: Internet, moving, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-technology, Real-Estate-web-site, Real-Estate-Web-Sites, relocation, TotalMove
OK, so you’ve found the home of your dreams on Trulia or you’ve successfully “Made Someone Move“. What comes next?
TotalMove might just be what you’re looking for. They aim to help homeowners prepare for the huge transition that moving entails.
At it’s core, TotalMove is a mashup of a number of different web properties; listings from [...]
By Joel Burslem on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Filed Under: Quick HitTags: For-Sale-By-Owner, FSBO, Quick Hit
Dow Jones’ MarketWatch recently published 6 tips for those planning on selling without a real estate agent. Aside from the basics, (staging it properly, having the proper support lined up, etc.) they gave the following advice:
[ask] at least three agents for a free comparative market analysis before setting an asking price — as long as [...]