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Ever since Zillow evolved into.. well, whatever it is now (some sort of real estate search, AVM, mortgage rate and discussion forum Frankenstein Hydra, as far as I can tell), the controversy over Zestimates seems to have quieted down.
Maybe it’s that the novelty of seeing what your home is worth has worn off as housing prices [...]
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Mobile real estate poised to take off? Palm seems to think so.
On a side note, I’m kind of digging the Pre… but doubt I’m ready to give up the iPhone. Yet.
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Century 21 has really been pushing to move beyond the Gold Jacket lately. First, they announced they were dropping all of their television advertising in favor of an all-Internet play (see Century 21 Ditches TV for Online)
Now they have announced that they’ve launched “C21 Communities” – a social media platform.
Century 21 Real Estate LLC, the [...]
Crazy busy week for me this week. So not much time for blogging.
I will however take some time out tomorrow and try and drop in at REbarcamp Portland.
The event will be taking place at CubeSpace. Registration opens at 8:30AM on Thursday and the festivities kick off at 9AM.
REBarcamp Portland was organized by these guys – [...]
Two well known real estate bloggers have launched a new training program for real estate professionals.
Jeff Turner and Bill Lublin have announced the creation of the new Social Media Marketing Institute (SMMI) and now offer a new designation to Realtors; Certified Social Media Marketer (CSM). The course is designed “to educate business professionals in the [...]
Congrats to those nominated for the real estate category:
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate
HotPads.com
NYTimes.com/RealEstate
Riverfront Park
Trulia
The winners will be announced as part of the Webby Award week, June 8-10 in New York.
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Google recently flipped the switch on a new service called Latitude; which takes Twitter-like status updates and mashes it up realtime location data. The premise is Latitude will let you share your location and see where your “friends” are anywhere on a map.
It’s pretty easy too. Using your mobile browser (Android, Blackberry, Symbian S60, and [...]
In what should surely spur another burst of creativity from the real estate developer set, the New York Times announced this week a brand new Real Estate API.
The Times API contains real estate data from the NYC Department of Finance dating back to 2003 and all the classifieds data from the Grey Lady dating back [...]
There was, for a while, a sense of stalemate that had hit real estate search on the web. Frankly these days, you could be forgiven for not finding much difference between the map based searches on most of the major property portals.
It seems like a map-based view of search results and the much older list-view [...]
It’s no secret newspapers are dying. Most are struggling to transition to a new digital environment. And let’s face it. Most newspaper web sites are pretty awful. Many are stuck in legacy platforms, saddled with expenses and without the resources necessary to bring their sites up to 2.0 snuff. (Sound familiar brokers?)
And since craigslist has [...]
