Category: Industry News

Connect SF this Summer is Going to Rock

This post is a total plug.
If you don’t like commercial pitches, don’t care what I do from day to day, hate Inman News and are otherwise disinterested, move on. Go ahead and hit that J key in your reader…

The rest of you, we’ve spent a lot of this week working on this summer’s Connect conference [...]

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More Real Estate Organizations Sued over Search Patents

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An old lawsuit over real estate search patents has resurfaced again.
Florida inventor Mark Tornetta and Real Estate Alliance LTD (REAL), who owns Tornetta’s patents (Nos. 4,480,576 and 5,032,989), have announced today they have moved in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to sue the industry’s largest trade association and several national brokerages, [...]

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2008 Real Estate Trends Released

I’m honored that FOREM was included amonst Stefan Swanepoel’s must read blogs.

Swanepoel’s real estate trends report is a must read for anyone even tangentially involved in this industry. I haven’t had a chance yet to look over this year’s edition but I’m definitely looking forward to checking it out.
Especially Real Estate Trend #3 - The [...]

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Desk Clearing Time

by limonada
Though the Roost launch (see Roost.com Kicks over the RE Search Cart) is dominating most of the blogosphere today - there are a couple of other stories worth mentioning that I thought I’d throw out there.
Trouble in Bellevue?
John Cook reports that HouseValues cuts staff and its CFO is leaving.
Hope it wasn’t because of that [...]

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New York Connect Kick Off

Posting will likely be pretty light here on FOREM over the next couple of days - I’m going be pretty buried with Real Estate Connect going on.
That said, I’m excited to see many old faces again and meet some new faces and not so excited to watch my face probably start to sag under the [...]

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Kick Start 2008 with a Good Deed

I’m cross-posting this from the Inman News Blog:
Inman News writer and Coldwell Banker top producer Dian Hymer is a friend of the industry who needs our help. Suffering from cancer, she needs a bone marrow transplant. An initial run of the National Marrow Donor Program registry showed no matches. You may be a match and [...]

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Inman Innovator Award Finalists Announced

Inman News names the finalists for the 2007 Innovator Awards. For more on some of the nominees’ accomplishments, read:
Coldwell Banker

Coldwell Banker Opens Office in Second Life

Foxtons

Foxtons Imports Audioshows to USA

Google Street View

Next Generation Virtual Tours

John L. Scott

John L. Scott breaks the mold
The Evolution of Map Based Searches

Point2NLS

Point2Homes Thinks Inside the Box

Trulia Voices

Trulia Finds Its Voice

vFlyer

vFlyers [...]

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Stop What You’re Doing - Read this Post

Matt Carter on the Inman News Blog and his take on the future of real estate. Some of the best analysis I’ve read recently.
Granted, I’m biased (full disclosure: I work for Inman News) - but seriously, go read.
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A Brand New Move.com

 
The lumbering beast that is Move.com is slowly transforming itself and just like a snake, it’s shedding it’s skin - but can it really get rid itself of an overwhelmingly negative reputation in this industry?
I think it’s trying to, with some degree of success.
They’ve scored some small scale PR victories of late with initiatives like [...]

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