Lots and Lots of Real Estate Lists

The guys at 1000Watt Consulting have mapped out the full spectrum of Real Estate 2.0 companies to create a (near) complete map of the Real Estate 2.0 universe. Print it out and stick it on your wall so you can see who should be on your radar screen.

Many of the old guard are there; Redfin, Zillow and Trulia, but so are some of the young turks; WellcomeMat, Vflyer, Realtyger, Real Estate Shows and Active Rain, proving you don’t need to have millions in VC financing to make an impact in this space.

Inc.com just finished a comprehensive look at entrepreneurialism in the U.S. and released a list of the 5,000 fastest growing companies in America.

You can view the rankings sequentially or, for the first time this year, navigate the list using a Google Maps mashup that plots each company geographically. Of course, you can also browse the list by industry, which give us the top 100 fastest growing private real estate companies.

Interestingly, none of the companies in 1000Watts’ universe made the list and the top three real estate companies were engaged in more “bread and butter” business models; #1 Noble Investment Group (development), #2 Great American Title Agency (title), #3 Atlanta Investing (foreclosures).

Mapping a list geographically seems to be a trend these days. The InmanWiki just launched a map view of its Real Estate Blog Directory. The directory, which has over 580 real estate blogs, has been growing at a fantastic pace and now you can search by city or state for real estate blogs in your hometown. (Full disclosure: I work for Inman News and helped steer this project).

Finally, if you are already feeling overwhelmed by all the places you can post listings online these days, International Listings has put together a list of 37 Places to List a Home where they’ve broken it down into destinations for US, International, Vacation and Luxury homes. If that’s not enough to make your head explode…

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