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Sun, 27 May 2007 04:50:51 +0000

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By: Louise

Louise — Thu, 03 May 2007 18:04:32 +0000

Huh. Where’s the extate link?

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Thu, 03 May 2007 17:50:41 +0000

[...] You can read details about this here. Perhaps this is the beginning of the end for the old standby? The lumbering beast that is Move.com reminds of another lumbering beast that was once in a state of corporate old age. [...]

By: Kicked to the curb

Kicked to the curb — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:09:40 +0000

Beazer Homes Names Merrill CFO
Monday April 23, 8:47 am ET
Beazer Taps Allan Merrill As Chief Financial Officer to Replace James O’Leary, Who Left

ATLANTA (AP) — Beazer Homes USA Inc. on Monday named Allan Merrill chief financial officer, replacing James O’Leary, who left the company last month.

Merrill was most recently executive vice president of corporate development and strategy at Move Inc., operator of the Web site Homebuilder.com.

By: Incredible Agent

Incredible Agent — Thu, 03 May 2007 02:20:05 +0000

All this hype makes me think it’s just a PR game to re-generate interest in their website. So far, the folks at Move.com haven’t been very innovative and who knows if their new additions will help. You can’t buy innovation, even for $6 million. I for one will not be holding my breath in anticipation for their launch. Let it happen and then we can talk about it.

By: James RB

James RB — Wed, 02 May 2007 20:06:05 +0000

Joel, totally agree with you. Extate has a much, much better UI than Move. Are they coming to the US? They now have a what looks like a US site link at the bottom, though it doesn’t seem to work. Yet?! Shake up the market for Move, Trulia, Redfin, Zillow?

By: James Cramer is the man

James Cramer is the man — Wed, 02 May 2007 18:21:27 +0000

Move Shares Sink After Low 1Q Results
Wednesday May 2, 1:57 pm ET
Shares of Move, a Real Estate Web Site Operator, Drop After Reporting Low 1Q Results

NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of real estate Web site operator Move Inc. dropped more than 12 percent Wednesday, after the company’s first-quarter earnings missed Street estimates and several analysts cut estimates and price targets on the shares.

By: shaun mclane

shaun mclane — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:52:19 +0000

I’ve heard rumor that the $6m is a rebranding effort. Something to the effect of relaunching as a completely new site. The new additions would make sense if they are trying to beta features, and gather public opinion data.
The person I got this bit of info from has no sources, so I’m waving this off as just a bad rumor, but if you take the time to think about it, that rumor might not be such a bad idea. Move does have a negative rep, but it also has a fairly loyal following. They could carry their followers over, but launch as a new company – with all the hype that follows.

By: John

John — Wed, 02 May 2007 16:45:41 +0000

Move will never be able to pull the product and developer talent to compete on the product level with the likes of Google, Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia, etc. They’ve proven they can aggregate traffic and throw hundreds of salespeople at realtors to make a buck… so what. They literally have >10-30x the number of employees as any of the other big players in the space, yet their market share has been steadily declining for the past year. I don’t see any true strategic competitive differentiators and see this company as a dying beast…