MRIS, the MLS which covers DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Virginias and is the nation’s largest MLS, today launched HomesDatabase 2.0, its new public-facing web site.
It’s a pretty impressive effort. HomeDatabase takes its design cues from some of the big listing portals (Zillow and Trulia) but merges it with the extensive listing data available from [...]
HouseValues (SOLD), the 10 year-old lead generation company, shed it’s skin this morning and repositioned itself as a marketing and technology solutions company.
The new company is going to be called Market Leader and brings together a number of HouseValues’ recent acquisitions, including RealtyGenerator web site and CRM tool, under a new roof. They also have [...]
Portland MLS Changes Rules on Address Display.
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One of the things that always struck me at the last couple of Connect conferences was the number of folks in the audience that came from outside the US.
Last month in San Francisco was no different. I met people from Canada, Mexico, Germany, Australia, Spain, France and many others, all walking the floors of the [...]
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The rest of you, we’ve spent a lot of this week working on this summer’s Connect conference [...]
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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, [...]
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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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 [...]
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 [...]
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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