Coldwell Banker introduced a fresh take on real estate search today with the launch of its new web site at beta.coldwellbanker.com. Besides a tarted-up user interface, the new site offers a couple of intriguing new ideas that I think push the innovation needle in the right direction.
The first of which is the new site now [...]
I was getting on a plane this morning so I was only able to tweet this news.
Brian Boero at 1000Watt Consulting sums it up best.
Now, today, search engine land reports that Google has taken this one step further to include a unique page for every listing that includes photos, a map (including Street View) [...]
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 [...]
The Realtors Property Resouce (RPR) is likely the most important technology story of the last few years. And it will probably be the most closely watched story for the next couple of years too.
What is the the RPR? Brian Boero from 1000Watt Blog sums it up nicely.
The NAR has taken over certain technology assets of [...]
A guest post from Tim Fagan, CEO of HomeFinder.com
A while back I was in the audience at an industry conference when a woman on stage asked this question: “At the end of the day, do any of these online real estate companies really help anyone buy or sell a home?”
My initial reaction – as someone [...]
French company MeilleurAgents.com (“best agents”) has released a mobile Android application that displays the value of every single building in Paris (value is displayed in price per square meter). Here’s a quick video demonstrating it in action:
[vimeo]http://vimeo.com/6006262[/vimeo]
The application is very similar to Zillow’s iPhone app (see Zillow Takes Zestimates to the Streets); which also displays home [...]
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 [...]
Says CEO Glenn Kelman, via Techcrunch
…the run rate is around $15 million. 2007 revenues were $5 million, 2006 revenues were $1 million.
Congrats to all the folks at Redfin. Their model, while clearly controversial, seems to be succeeding.
Their web site is world class (see 10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites) and the company has pushed [...]
In my post New Firefox Brings Location to the Browser, I asked the following question around the new browser’s location awareness capability.
So the race is on – which will be the first site to implement this feature? Any bets?
Well today, we have a winner. That was fast.
The blue circle has come to your desktop with [...]
Realogy brand Better Homes and Gardens launched its revamped web site. Lots of new content, including a revamped video section and brand new video platform (provided by Brightcove). All very cool and it looks great.
So while visiting the new site it also gave me a chance to have another look at BHG’s search tool, which [...]
