Terabitz has been very quiet lately.
A refresher for those of you might not have heard of the company – they launched in 2007 to much fanfare (see Terabitz Gives You Loads of Data) — as a sort of “Netvibes for real estate” — but the company made hard tack to starboard in the years since [...]
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I really dig this. New York based broker Halstead Property partnered with New York Magazine to provide its online reviews to the real estate company’s web site.
Check out their neighborhood profiles for Soho or Greenwich Village, for example. Great information that’s very valuable to the consumer. I think this brilliant move for [...]
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Avvo is a new site that just launched to try and take the guess work out of finding a lawyer. The premise of the service really struck a chord with me.
Why is there no such service for real estate?
As a someone who’s getting ready to buy a house, I find it [...]
Trulia launched a pretty significant new release of its real estate search site this morning.
Big news was they finally removed the Beta from their logo, hopefully spurring many of its Web 2.0 cousins to do the same.
More importantly however, it has charged right into what’s rapidly becoming a very crowded space – the online conversations [...]
The lumbering beast that is Move.com is slowly transforming itself and just like a snake, it’s shedding it’s skin – but can it really get rid itself of an overwhelmingly negative reputation in this industry?
I think it’s trying to, with some degree of success.
They’ve scored some small scale PR victories of late with initiatives like [...]
Sellsius Real Estate finally launched last week. Two of the most prolific real estate bloggers have finally unleashed their vision on the industry.
Sellsius calls itself as enhanced classified engine under the banner “hot listings, cool tools” and the idea is to create a open community where Realtors can promote themselves and their clients’ properties. They [...]
My post on HomeGain (see HomeGain is AVM Also-Ran) stirred up some discussion – here is a recent email thread I had with Louis Cammarosano, HomeGain’s General Manager (which he graciously allowed me to reprint here):
Here is why we consistently rank ahead the media darling Zillow in terms of traffic and certainly in revenue- HG [...]
Redfin has unveiled a new version of it’s site tonight, that includes a total redesign of the entire site, a new color scheme and a brand new logo.
Aping UK search engine Extate’s recent redesign (see Extate Cranks Up the Heat), among other things it has gotten rid of the property balloons (something Redfin developer Matt [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
