One of my favorite online real estate search tools, Estately expanded in to two new markets today; Greater Chicago and Long Island, New York. This marks the first markets outside of the West Coast for the Seattle based search site — Estately previously only served Washington, Oregon and California.
This means Estately, which pulls all of [...]
MRIS, the MLS which covers DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania and the Virginias and is the nation’s largest MLS, today launched HomesDatabase 2.0, its new public-facing web site.
It’s a pretty impressive effort. HomeDatabase takes its design cues from some of the big listing portals (Zillow and Trulia) but merges it with the extensive listing data available from [...]
Properazzi, the international property search portal based in Barcelona, Spain, announced today it has changed its name to Enormo.
They felt “that the new name will reflect our ambitions better and support our continuing growth”.
I actually liked the old name a lot (see Properazzi Takes a Snapshot of Europe’s Real Estate Market) and the new name [...]
Gentrify is a new site reminiscent of one of the grandaddies of real estate mashups; HousingMaps.com.
Only better. It scrapes San Francisco property listings from craigslist but adds a number of unique filters that will help you find the perfect pad.
And by ‘you’ I mean, yes ‘you’ - the yuppie (see Stuff White People Like).
Gentrify’s goal [...]
Google just announced you can now use Google Earth on your iPhone. This is huge.
With just a swipe of your finger you can fly from Peoria to Paris to Papua New Guinea, or anywhere in between. It may be small, but it brings all the power of Google Earth to the palm of your hand, [...]
Globrix, the UK based, News International backed real estate search site announced this week it will be making the move in to the United States in early 2009.
They are following the footsteps of early leader Dothomes, which announced its US expansion in April of this year (see DotHomes is in the Running).
According to the article [...]
Don’t call it a comeback
I been here for years
Rockin’ my peers
Puttin’ suckers in fear
- LL COOL J, Momma Said Knock You Out
Neighborhood research sites come and go. But none of them have seemed to stick around for very long.
Word that Homethinking has added some very cool neighborhood matching tools excites me as a technology watcher, [...]
In a move reminiscent of the current US election campaigns, Roost, the MLS-driven real estate search engine released a series of YouTube videos today showing how its results best those returned by Trulia, Google and Yahoo.
Check ‘em out.
Trulia
Google
Yahoo
Roost’s conclusion? That using these sites “homebuyers waste tons of time searching through homes that aren’t actually [...]
High profile Finnish search portal Igglo.fi is gone. Kaput.
The company was founded in February 2006 by entrepreneurs Jussi Nurmio and Mikko Ranin and in 2006 Benchmark Capital Europe invested 12.5 million euros in Igglo to help them fund their expansion deep into Europe.
But that investment now looks all for naught, as Igglo declared bankruptcy [...]
Maybe it’s the dominant position that MLS.ca (recently rebranded as Realtor.ca) occupies in the market, but real estate search north of the border seems to have been stuck revving in neutral for a while.
Zoocasa is a new free Canadian real estate search engine that aims to kick it in to gear. Zoocasa covers the Canadian [...]
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