This week Redfin shuttered its hyperlocal Sweet Digs blogs in San Francisco, Boston, San Diego and Orange County.
Sweet Digs Seattle is still alive but it looks like it has turned into a more traditional brokerage blog; now just advertising Redfin’s new listings and open houses.
Sweet Digs was initially founded to replicate the formula pioneered by [...]
Properazzi, the international property search portal based in Barcelona, Spain, announced today it has changed its name to Enormo.
They felt “that the new name will reflect our ambitions better and support our continuing growth”.
I actually liked the old name a lot (see Properazzi Takes a Snapshot of Europe’s Real Estate Market) and the new name [...]
Gentrify is a new site reminiscent of one of the grandaddies of real estate mashups; HousingMaps.com.
Only better. It scrapes San Francisco property listings from craigslist but adds a number of unique filters that will help you find the perfect pad.
And by ‘you’ I mean, yes ‘you’ – the yuppie (see Stuff White People Like).
Gentrify’s goal [...]
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Google just announced you can now use Google Earth on your iPhone. This is huge.
With just a swipe of your finger you can fly from Peoria to Paris to Papua New Guinea, or anywhere in between. It may be small, but it brings all the power of Google Earth to the palm of your hand, [...]
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In a post over at CNet, Rafe Needleman tagged Zillow as one of “the next Kozmos” (for more on Kozmo check out Wikipedia). Needleman writes:
The real-estate site’s revenue model is advertising. Real estate and bank advertising. Unless the real-estate research site starts charging for foreclosure listings, I don’t see it doing too well in a [...]
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Zillow lays off 25 percent of workforce.
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Globrix, the UK based, News International backed real estate search site announced this week it will be making the move in to the United States in early 2009.
They are following the footsteps of early leader Dothomes, which announced its US expansion in April of this year (see DotHomes is in the Running).
According to the article [...]
Don’t call it a comeback
I been here for years
Rockin’ my peers
Puttin’ suckers in fear
- LL COOL J, Momma Said Knock You Out
Neighborhood research sites come and go. But none of them have seemed to stick around for very long.
Word that Homethinking has added some very cool neighborhood matching tools excites me as a technology watcher, [...]
In what is likely the first of many more of these sorts of announcements in the real estate space, Redfin is laying off 20% of their employees.
In a post on its company blog yesterday, Redfin CEO Glenn Kelman explained that the layoffs were due to the company being hit by market conditions that “wiped out [...]
