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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 [...]

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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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 [...]

Over at Inman News today, Redfin launched its Real Estate Consumer’s Bill of Rights, a ten point piece they hope to eventually take to the National Association of Realtors and MLSes to codify.
At it’s core, the plan calls from greater transparency through all stages of a real estate transaction. From Redfin’s Real Estate Consumer’s Bill [...]

WellcomeMat, the real estate video tour platform, released a new version of their software today. Rudy from sellsius and I had a chance to preview their new release this morning.
The new WellcomeMat refocuses the site around the idea of channels, and now allows anyone to create their own real estate channel. The new channel manager [...]

OnOneMap is not a exactly a new site, but one I’ve only come around to reviewing recently. The UK based real estate site competes with others like Zoomf, Extate and Nestoria.
Renthusiast.org has covered it in depth. FT.com had some nice things to say about them too.
I’m onboard. OnOneMap has a truly awesome search interface.
I love [...]

Project Blogger is the brainchild of Jonathan Washburn of ActiveRain and will chronicle the development of a handful of new REbloggers, leading up to the Inman’s Bloggers Connect conference in San Francisco, this summer.
I was asked, along with a number of other bloggers, to choose a blogging apprentice, help them get up and running [...]

The pace of blogging at FoREM has slowed a bit over the last few days. I’ve been buried wrapping up a number of projects for my current employer before I make a pretty significant transition.

I’m happy to announce I will be joining the nice folks over at Inman News, as of March 26. I will [...]

Redfin added neighborhood and school data to its listing pages today, something some of the big brokers like RealLiving and Coldwell Banker have already done (see Big Brokers Going Local).
Visiting their site, I wasn’t entirely clear at first where on the listing page to find this information, it wasn’t immediately obvious ‘above the fold‘.
Scrolling down [...]