It seems to happen like clockwork these days, Redfin launches a new feature on its website - Mike Arrington writes another fawning review on Techcrunch.
Don’t get me wrong, I like Redfin. I really admire what they are trying do. Plus, Glenn Kelman is a really nice guy and an absolute master at playing up his [...]
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I really dig this. New York based broker Halstead Property partnered with New York Magazine to provide its online reviews to the real estate company’s web site.
Check out their neighborhood profiles for Soho or Greenwich Village, for example. Great information that’s very valuable to the consumer. I think this brilliant move for [...]
As regular readers of this blog know, I’m a big fan of much of the innovation in Real Estate 2.0 that’s happened overseas - remember Igglo, for example? The Norwegian Finnish site that allows people to bid on homes that aren’t even for sale (kind of a reverse Make Me Move price). Read Wikipedia article [...]
Nicole Nicolay graciously accepted my offer of a Flip video camera at Connect in New York and set out to capture some thoughts from some of the conference attendees. The result is featured in today’s Inman TV.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoIOvw-BOXk
Sharing some of their marketing tips for 2008 are:
Dan Green, The Mortgage Reports Blog
Brian Wilson, Zolve.com
Sara Bonert, Zillow.com
Jay Thompson, [...]
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Though the Roost launch (see Roost.com Kicks over the RE Search Cart) is dominating most of the blogosphere today - there are a couple of other stories worth mentioning that I thought I’d throw out there.
Trouble in Bellevue?
John Cook reports that HouseValues cuts staff and its CFO is leaving.
Hope it wasn’t because of that [...]
I do a ton of flying for business these days and one of my favorite travel search sites is Kayak.com (Farecast is another great search tool too). The idea was pretty simple - Kayak took a look at a crowded category on the Internet (travel sites) and told themselves they could do it better.
Roost.com, [...]
There have been numerous rumblings over the last week that suggest that Yahoo is planning to lay off hundreds of employees in an attempt to shed some weight and boost its profitability. Now the New York Times is reporting it, suggesting the announcement could come at the end of the month.
So how is this going [...]
Paul Kedrosky on why HouseValues’ investment in ActiveRain is the Worst Timed Investment Ever:
Worst: Real estate is in the tank and likely to stay there for some time. Venture capitalists are atrocious market timers, and this is, if anything, a sign things are going to get worse. Further, building a social network for real estate [...]
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