When I originally started at eppraisal a couple years ago I discussed the idea of creating a service that would allow someone to sell and buy a house online. It would be an end-to-end transaction with all of the documents and tie-ins to vendors that might be needed to make that work. I [...]
Owning the conversation around real estate seems to be a big trend these days. Zillow’s trying to do it with their new release (see Zillow Asks What’s For Sale in your Hood?) and now there’s another competitor on the block, so to speak.
YourStreet.com went live this morning. It’s a site for real estate geeks (of [...]
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 [...]
Paul at Blogging Systems writes about Bring the Blog (see ‘Bring the Blog’ Not All It’s Cracked Up to Be) today, a new service by BloodhoundBlog contributor and Mortgage Reports Blog owner Dan Green.
Ostensibly, Bring the Blog is a simple blog platform but they take it a step further, they also provide a ghost-writing [...]
The guys at Realivent have been doing some really interesting things lately, most recently creating a real estate specific Wordpress theme.
This is an idea that’s been floating around for a while (see Do Single Property Websites Sell Homes?) but it’s nice to see someone stepping up to bat and creating some templates specifically designed to [...]
I took the plunge into 3G recently with the purchase of a Samsung Blackjack. I love it. Having near broadband Internet speeds on my phone means I can check email, catch up on the latest CNN video news, get the latest traffic and weather streamed to me - even catch up on my Google Reader [...]
AgencyLogic, the single property website provider, unveiled the latest version of its PowerSites product today, adding free syndication of listings to Trulia, Oodle, Edgeio, PropSmart and Google Base. They’ve also added RSS feeds to their templates so you can begin to aggregate them all back to a central location.
This got me thinking. Single property websites [...]
Matt Goyer digs up a new tool that help you calculate the costs of home ownership. HouseMath 2.0 lets you calculate all the costs associated with your new purchase and gives you a true monthly cost of owning your new home.
Online property searches are evolving quickly and are morphing away from simply displaying listings on [...]
Redfin relaunched this morning with a brand new mapping interface using Microsoft Virtual Earth platform. They’ve retired the old Flash based maps, which frankly were looking a little long in the tooth.
By moving to the Virtual Earth API, Redfin can now concentrate on building out new features on the site. Redfin’s blog gives a good [...]
Transparent Real Estate shows us Neighboroo, a Google maps mashup that overlays all kinds of data onto a heat map. Great looking site and lots of fun to explore. Pat asks what Neighboroo’s business model should be; I think they should license this to brokers for display on their web site - I’d love to [...]
