Frontdoor.com, the upstart real estate search portal from media giant Scripps Network Interactive, continues to move forward. From their most recent press release:
Just six months after opening, FrontDoor.com, the real estate Web site powered by HGTV, continues to unlock home ownership information for users – now offering more than 3 million listings of homes for [...]
So HD video might not be in your gameplan yet (see The Power of HD Video) - but video surely is coming.
I’ve been talking to Realtors and Brokers all over the country this year who are using video successfully in meeting and servicing buyers’ need and helping sellers market their homes (see Century 21 Puts [...]
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Since Zillow launched its Zillow Mortgage Marketplace it has received over 28,000 loan requests (see Zillow Mortgage Marketplace Borrowers Have Spoken). Pretty good showing for a service that is only a little over a month old.
But it seems like Zillow is not the only online player who’s eyeing this market as an [...]
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Estately.com has long been one of my favorite real estate search experiences on the web (see 10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites). And today it just got much better (well, for me at least, anyway).
This morning they announced that they have expanded in to Oregon by adding over 35,000+ Portland single [...]
Very cool. Probably not legal. But I’ve been using it anyway.
iZillow.net
Hit it on your iPhone. It’s super slick (coded using Safire). Just in time too… (see Apple Releases SDK Kit for iPhone).
I doubt this is an in-house project. If it’s not, I hope the Z-team hires this guy and finds a way to bring it [...]
An advertisement from OptHome, a company that offers to “unbiasedly search all licensed agents to help you choose the one that is right for you.”
Let’s face it, this is every consumer’s worst nightmare when it comes to finding an agent and this ad taps right into that fear. No idea how effective the service is, but [...]
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OK so this is only marginally real estate related… but I got my Beta invite from Hulu.com over the weekend and I have to say I am pretty impressed.
For those of you who didn’t know, Hulu is a joint effort by NBC/Universal and Fox to bring TV to the web. Major media have been much [...]
by donmimi83 (mostly away )
In an interesting story from the WSJ.com, RE/MAX is using data from Cox Communications DVRs to track viewer watching patterns and figure out where to place their advertisements.
Using a new process that taps into data from cable set-top boxes, RE/MAX found that, along with home-improvement shows, those households were also likely [...]
This one is for all the creative types out there. (Warning: Some language is NSFW)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYEf8XZKlUU
(h/t Advertising Ourselves to Death)
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