by limonada
Though the Roost launch (see Roost.com Kicks over the RE Search Cart) is dominating most of the blogosphere today – there are a couple of other stories worth mentioning that I thought I’d throw out there.
Trouble in Bellevue?
John Cook reports that HouseValues cuts staff and its CFO is leaving.
Hope it wasn’t because of that [...]
The US based realty search engines (Trulia, and to a lesser degree, Redfin) are quickly getting lapped by their European counterparts.
Seems like coming out of the gates, nearly all of the Brits aped Trulia’s ground breaking search interface – but have quickly pushed that aside as they race to add new features (see Extate Launches [...]
Jeff, the Xbroker, has slowly been leaking details of his newest venture, RealEspace, over the last few days. What is RealEspace? Well, no-one really knows just yet, but details are emerging. From a recent post at The XBroker, Jeff describes RealEspace as:
* A Best-of-Breed user interface to search property listings, backed by robust demographical [...]
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 [...]
Realtor associations are a puzzling bunch.
I put this down largely to a general lack of focus in their overall mission or raison d’etre. Are they supposed to be market cheerleaders, lobby groups, representatives of the industry – what are they? I don’t think they even know sometimes.
Nowhere is this lack of focus more apparent than [...]
