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 [...]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard anything coming out of the Googleplex around its moves in the real estate space.
And now, we wait no longer. On the Google LatLong blog today, Google announced that they have rolled out vast improvements in the way that they display real estate searches in their index; they are [...]
Realestate.com, the online real estate destination owned by the online mortgage giant LendingTree, rolled out a new sitewide redesign last week.
The new design is clean, fast and eminently usable. And while not as tricked out as some of its competitors, the site is a very capable competitor. Results are returned in a very easy to [...]
Posted by Joel Burslem on Wednesday, June 10, 2009 Filed Under: InternetTags: Estately, Real-Estate-2.0, real-estate-search
Estately has been playing the slow and steady game, but it’s one that I’m increasingly convinced is working out for them.
Today, they announced the addition of their tenth metropolitan market as they bring Atlanta under their fold. Adding 127,000 listings from two Georgia MLS databases, it now brings the total number of properties for sale [...]
Posted by Joel Burslem on Tuesday, June 9, 2009 Filed Under: MarketingTags: Real-Estate-2.0, tweetlister, Twitter
Gahlord Dewald writes today over on Inman.com about Tweetlister – a new service that helps you market your listings on Twitter.
The main advantage? Tweetlister takes all the listing details you input in to the site and automatically creates a 140 character “tweet” for you and gives you a landing page for the property.
Dewald writes…
With all of [...]
MLS powered search site Roost launched a brand new redesign last week (see Roost.com announces redesign).
Unfortunately, it undid a lot of what I thought made the old site great. But hopefully we only seeing the first iteration of this next generation site and the site will continue to evolve.
Here are a couple things I picked [...]
The nice folks at Scripps sent me an email fleshing out more detail about Frontdoor’s Facebook Connect integration. I’ve excerpted a few sections below since they give some greater context to the feature.
As you surmised, the Facebook Connect rollout is a work in progress. Truth be told, we’re about 50% finished with the actual [...]
Posted by Joel Burslem on Tuesday, May 5, 2009 Filed Under: InternetTags: Hotpads, Real-Estate-2.0, trulia, webby award
Congrats to Trulia for winning the 2009 Webby award in the real estate category. This is nice recognition for the Bay-Area company, but they still have a ways to go to catch up its nearest competitors.
Traffic to all the major portals seems to be ticking up after a pretty miserable 4th Quarter all around. Trulia [...]