Archive for November, 2009

$100 off Registration for Real Estate Connect

Great news. The deadline for early bird registration for next year’s Real Estate Connect conference in New York has been extended for another week.
Plus if you register use the coupon code FOREM and you’ll save an extra $100.
Connect is by far the leading technology conference in Real Estate. There’s always a fantastic line-up of speakers… [...]

Google Muscles into Real Estate Listings

I was getting on a plane this morning so I was only able to tweet this news.
Brian Boero at 1000Watt Consulting sums it up best.
Now, today, search engine land reports that Google has taken this one step further to include a unique page for every listing that includes photos, a map (including Street View) [...]

Data Sharing and The Rise of the Market Blog

Altos Research has released four new WordPress Plugins that make it dead simple to go deep in to the numbers and create data rich local market blogs.
Altos is among many real estate data providers out there, but is unique in that many of its core products cater to individual Realtors rather than large institutional or [...]

FOREM Flash – Redfin gets $10 Million in new funding

From the Redfin Corporate Blog:
Big news! Redfin just announced a $10-million round of financing led by Greylock Partners’ James Slavet and his colleague David Thacker. Redfin’s group of existing investors — Madrona Venture Group, Vulcan Capital, DFJ, The Hillman Company — also pitched in on the round.
This new round of financing brings the total investment [...]

NeighborCity Serves Up Recommended Agents

NeighborCity is an real estate search site that operates in 20 markets across the country. Like Estately and a handful of others, NeighborCity is also a brokerage and as a result, gets access to the MLS and is able to display all the active listings in those markets.

But NeighborCity is taking it one step further. [...]

Real Estate Video Use Rises in 2009

Online real estate video host Wellcomehost released its first annual report on the use of video in real estate marketing.
Significantly, the company found that the use of video is up 95% in the first half of 2009 versus the first half of 2008.
Breakouts like Realtor Ian Watt (see Video Isn’t Just About Your Listings) set [...]

NAR Leaps into the Fray — In a Big Way.

The Realtors Property Resouce (RPR) is likely the most important technology story of the last few years. And it will probably be the most closely watched story for the next couple of years too.
What is the the RPR? Brian Boero from 1000Watt Blog sums it up nicely.
The NAR has taken over certain technology assets of [...]

Terabitz Launches New Web Platform for Brokers

Terabitz has been very quiet lately.
A refresher for those of you might not have heard of the company – they launched in 2007 to much fanfare (see Terabitz Gives You Loads of Data) — as a sort of “Netvibes for real estate” — but the company made hard tack to starboard in the years since [...]