Ten of my favorite real estate search experiences on line today.
Regional Brokers
BlueRoof
Movoto
Sawbuck Realty
Webdigs
Big Brands
John L Scott
Windermere Property Point
National Brokers
Redfin
Regional
Estately.com
HawaiiLife
International
Century 21 Canada Real Estate
Share on Facebook
Share on Facebook
by bocavermelha-l.b.
Sharing photos is an incredibly popular activity and the Web that has spawned numerous awkwardly named web sites to help you do just; Flickr, Zoomr, Fotki, just to name a few.
Real estate photography is an art unto itself however – Kris Berg can show you how to do it right (see Some [...]
Share on Facebook
Brokers, so how are you going to deal with Google’s Universal Search?
How are people going to find your site? If you didn’t already realize it, you’re already scrapping it out for increasingly limited screen space.
Google has already dropped local search results into its organic search results (see Google Implements Local Search Results). Take a search [...]
Share on Facebook
Posted by Joel Burslem on Tuesday, May 1, 2007 Filed Under: Industry NewsTags: Allen-Dalton, Industry News, Move.com, real estate 2.0, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-Marketing, Real-Estate-News, real-estate-technology, Real-Estate-web-site, Real-Estate-Web-Sites, Realtor.com
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 [...]
Share on Facebook
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 [...]
Share on Facebook
Posted by Joel Burslem on Friday, April 13, 2007 Filed Under: InternetTags: Internet, neighborhood-research, real estate 2.0, Real-Estate, Real-Estate-software, Real-Estate-web-site, Real-Estate-Web-Sites, web 2.0, YourStreet, YourStreet.com
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 [...]
Share on Facebook
Posted by Joel Burslem on Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Filed Under: InternetTags: Internet, moving, real estate 2.0, Real-Estate, real-estate-technology, Real-Estate-web-site, Real-Estate-Web-Sites, relocation, TotalMove
OK, so you’ve found the home of your dreams on Trulia or you’ve successfully “Made Someone Move“. What comes next?
TotalMove might just be what you’re looking for. They aim to help homeowners prepare for the huge transition that moving entails.
At it’s core, TotalMove is a mashup of a number of different web properties; listings from [...]
Share on Facebook
vFlyer, the classified flyer a.k.a. single property website, has released a slew of features recently including video and the ability to put your listings on your site through a widget (see vFlyers Lets You Put Listings on Your Blog). They’re now offering a limited time discount and an opportunity to customize their widgets for 25 [...]
Share on Facebook
This has been reported elsewhere, but I thought I should update any readers who may have missed it.
Thanks to some sleuthing from Kevin at 3 Oceans Real Estate Blog, Redfin released a correction to its controversial claim that Redfin agents more effective negotiator. Apparently they were off by just a hair in their calculations.
More from [...]
Share on Facebook
Posted by Joel Burslem on Friday, March 2, 2007 Filed Under: InternetTags: Internet, real estate 2.0, Real-Estate, real-estate-search, Real-Estate-web-site, Real-Estate-Web-Sites, Realogy, trulia, trulia.com
Trulia announced today that it has inked a deal with Realogy Corporation (H), parent company of Century 21, Coldwell Banker and ERA, to upload more than 500,000 of its affiliates’ listings to its database. Realogy made this move to Trulia alongside a similar deal with Google Base.
Realogy putting its listing inventory online only makes sense [...]
Share on Facebook