Category: Industry News

A Smarter Solution – Real Estate Job Hunting 101

Problem: When someone in the real estate industry goes job-hunting, it can be difficult to navigate through all the listings posted on Monster, Career Builder or some of the other online job boards posting up.
In addition, when an employer or real estate brokerage is looking for someone with specific real estate experience, it can sometimes [...]

Competition for iPad? Meet JooJoo: the iPad alternative with Flash

It seems like whenever Apple announces the latest and greatest product -  there are always  other companies who see if they can do better. The last couple weeks, there has been a ton of industry buzz about the iPad – what it is and what it isn’t – and specifically, how it could impact Realtors. [...]

Be the catalyst for community in your business – online and offline in 2010

This was my first time being “behind the scenes” with Inman News at Real Estate Connect NYC.  Having worked directly with agents and brokers prior to coming to Inman, this time at Connect I listened with a new set of eyes.
I kept thinking, “If I was a Realtor, what would be my big take-away from [...]

Top 3 Latest & Greatest Products from Google

Greetings FOREM readers!
I am really excited to be a featured writer on FOREM’s blog. I have been a reader and admirer of this blog for some time and am thrilled with the opportunity to contribute!  It is an honor to write along side Joel Burslem. I am equally as excited about my new position as [...]

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 [...]

Wanna buy a web site?

Dothomes.com is for sale.
Google PR 4. Yours for the right price.
Dothomes was one of a number of overseas property portal sites that tried in the last few years to make their way on to US shores. Turns out playing in the US market is much more complicated than they thought.
Much ballyhooed at the time (see [...]

Real Estate Connect Kicks Off this Week!

The eyes of the real estate industry will be on California again as Inman News’ annual Real Estate Connect conference kicks off this week in San Francisco.
Having been involved planning Connect conferences for the last couple of years, I can honestly say the Inman News team has really pulled off an amazing schedule of events [...]

Wall St. Bust Now History

Well, at least in the eyes of these WSJ film producers it is, who are releasing a new web video series about the tumultuous period at the end of 2008.
Most of the info in the video probably won’t be news to many of this blog’s readers, but they did a nice job summing up all [...]

Real Estate Connect registration deadline tomorrow

Have you got your ticket for Real Estate Connect San Francisco 2009 yet? Only one more day till the price goes up!
This will be the fifth Connect conference that I’ve been been part of and I’m proud of having been able to contribute to the program over the years.
But more importantly, Connect is something [...]

The Clozing Seeks to Aggregate Real Estate News

If imitation is the most sincere form of flattery, then the founder of the Clozing definitely has no qualms calling his new site the “Techmeme for Real Estate”.
Launched today by Sellsius blog head Joe Ferrara and his partner Anthony Barba, The Clozing is meant to be “your real estate water cooler”. It aggregates and displays [...]