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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 [...]
I’ve been wondering for a long time when Google would make a more sophisticated step into the real estate space. We might be seeing the first signs.
Much like Trulia, Zillow, Frontdoor and others, they’ve been quietly suctioning in real estate listings into Google Base over the last year or so (see Trulia Lands the Big [...]
Boston, Dallas, Fort Worth, Indianapolis, Minneapolis, St. Paul, Detroit, and Providence - you’ve been blessed by the Google Gods. Your cities have just been added to the pool of cities with street-level imagery.
I love StreetView and have actually started using this feature a lot in my home searches in Portland. It’s the next best thing [...]
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Recently, I’ve thinking about tweaking this blog’s advertising strategy (see Blogvertising: The Decision to Add Ads to Your Blog) by bringing new advertisers on board at FOREM and deep-sixing the Google Ads I’ve been running lately. Why? I’m starting to doubt AdSense’s supposed contextual relevance as I’m starting to see more and more truly bizarre [...]
I stumbled upon this interesting tidbit recently while doing some research for another post. It looks like you can now filter a search for real estate listings by brand using Google.
This looks likes the initial implementation of the deals signed last year to feed listings into Google base (more on StartupSquad).
Right now the results are [...]
Google recently called on me to give a quote for a case study they were writing on their Maps API (see New Blog to Keep an Eye On) and the case study is now live at Google Code. I’m a little bummed they didn’t give me a hyperlink but oh well, what can you do?
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Whether it’s a Ken Burns style slideshow you’ve created yourself (see Tip Tuesday: Creating a Killer Listing Presentation) or a professionally shot and edited production (see WellcomeMat - The Killer App for Real Estate Video), real estate video just got a whole lot more important.
Why? Two words. Universal Search. From Google’s Press Release [...]
Not to be outdone by that other 800lb gorilla in the real estate space (see Zillow Asks What’s For Sale in your Hood?), Google has been quietly rolling out improvements to its real estate search and Google Base platforms and left a cryptically vague note on their official blog today that serves as a reminder [...]
With all the talk this week of the new online advertising options for Realtors (see John Cook’s HouseValues, HomeGain and Zillow for a good rundown), I thought I would zig as everyone else figuratively zags (or is it that I’m zagging while they’re zigging…), and talk about an interesting new way to take some of [...]
