Exciting news on the mobile real estate front.
Coldwell Banker has just announced it will be feeding all of its listings to the Dash Interneted-connected GPS navigator.
What’s a Dash? The Dash takes GPS to the next level by connecting to the Internet via cellular and WiFi networks. It can also create up a mini MESH network [...]
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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 [...]
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by LXPK
The Flipping Pad, a social networking site that is designed to help people “share and discuss real estate investing” is putting a stake in the site up for bids.
You can place a bid on Sitepoint, an online auction site for web properties. What you’d get:
1. Outright Purchase: PM us for an est. and more [...]
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Estately.com is one of my favorite local real estate search web sites (see 10 Kick Ass Real Estate Search Sites). So, when news broke that they had secured $450K in funding I seized the chance to ask founder Galen Ward what was next for the budding property.
What are you going to do with all the [...]
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Forget about unique visitors, pageviews, # of listings…
Zillow beat Trulia to win the 2008 Real Estate Webby Award.
Trulia did pickup the People’s Voice award however, so let’s just call it a wash.
Other nominees in the Real Estate category were:
http://www.livinghomes.net/
http://www.livinghomes.net
Centerplan.dk
http://www.unit9.com/awards/cente…
Rentomatic
http://www.rentomatic.com
Congrats to all.
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by tropicdiver
Redfin’s new release is breaking new barriers, literally - they are adding bank-owned foreclosures and for-sale-by-owner inventory along side alongside their MLS listings (more from 4realz.net). The first, as far as I know, of any major brokerage to do so.
Definitely a smart move for the company which has long been out front pushing for [...]
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An interesting item in last week’s Wall St. Journal about the online war of words between beer giants Miller and Anheuser-Busch.
Miller has taken the interesting tact of hiring a former Ad-Age reporter and created “Brew” Blog, a daily blog to covers the beer industry from Miller’s vantage point.
Why do this? The answer from [...]
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This from Techcrunch today, in The British Are Coming Back Soon.
DotHomes, the UK-based real estate search engine which now covers the US, UK and South Africa, says it has doubled its number of nationwide real estate listings in the US, bringing its database up to two million residential properties for sale [...]
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REA Group is on a tear these days. They recently announced that their UK-based web site Propertyfinder.com has just acquired another another UK site Hotproperty.co.uk.
I recently had a chance to catch up with Simon Baker, CEO of REA Group who walked me through the company’s operations; which would be the envy of any Real Estate [...]
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Me, writing on the Inman Blog, when Street View launched last year:
Clearly, this has great application in real estate, as you will now be able to scope out a potential neighborhood or property from the ground up. Of course, it still doesn’t beat seeing it in real life - but becomes another handy way [...]
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