Shackprices, the Seattle based real estate search site, has relaunched itself under a new banner, now calling itself Estately (a much more dignified name, if you ask me). John Cook reports that the name change was prompted by a desire “to move away from the word ’shack’.”
The company, which is a licensed broker with the [...]
Not to be outdone by that other 800lb gorilla in the real estate space (see Zillow Asks What’s For Sale in your Hood?), Google has been quietly rolling out improvements to its real estate search and Google Base platforms and left a cryptically vague note on their official blog today that serves as a reminder [...]
Redfin added neighborhood and school data to its listing pages today, something some of the big brokers like RealLiving and Coldwell Banker have already done (see Big Brokers Going Local).
Visiting their site, I wasn’t entirely clear at first where on the listing page to find this information, it wasn’t immediately obvious ‘above the fold‘.
Scrolling down [...]
With Shackprices.com getting a nice nod from Inman yesterday (now behind subscription paywall, unfortunately), I thought it appropriate to look at a couple of new real estate search mashups that have come across my inbox recently.
For real estate professionals or brokers looking to add a complete IDX map search to their web site, dsSearchAgent is [...]
Galen Ward took the wraps off ShackPrices today. I’ve had a chance to play with the site over the last few days and I’m impressed.
Upon first glance, ShackPrices resembles many of the other real estate search sites out there, including Trulia and Windermere’s PropertyPoint 3 (see Windermere’s Property Point hits a home run).
But digging deeper [...]
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