DC residents now have a virtual panoply of real estate search sites to choose from. Estately, the IDX-powered online brokerage, just moved into DC, Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia today, adding 60,000 new homes and condos to their database. In addition to Estately, lucky Mid-Atlantic residents can thaw themselves with dreams of warmer springtime home [...]
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Looking back at Real Estate Connect New York
I looked down into the touch-screen display at JFK: “Upgrade to first class for $250.” There was no way I could justify this. I can’t afford it, frankly. But my body cried to be horizontal; my mind begged for stillness. Done deal.
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Google may kill Microsoft, but it won’t kill real estate
You’ve probably read the posts about Google’s move to make searching real estate via Google Maps slightly less obscure. This morning you read about the announcement of Chrome OS, which looks to many like the stone that just might hit Microsoft right between the eyes. These two announcements underscore something I have long believed about [...]
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Lots of big news yesterday
It’s been an eventful 36 hours in the world of technology and real estate. In case you missed it: Google launched Latitude, a service that lets users identify their location, and that of their friends, on a mobile phone. We’ve…
Hell breaks loose in the new listings war
I returned from my vacation last week to find my inbox and reader filled with talk about listing coverage, comprehensiveness and quality sparked by a somewhat ham-fisted PR gambit by Roost. I had just written about this the week before….
For brokers, a fork in the road
Trulia announced the launch of an ad network today, a collection of sites on which real estate brokers and others interested in reaching home buyers can place targeted advertising. It’s a first, and an overdue one at that. Last week,…
What will real estate search look like in 2010?
Real estate search has changed a lot in the past five years. Mapping, data overlays, better design and a freer hand with listings themselves have brought us some great models. But search has nonetheless become cocooned in the soft fibers…
The customer has left the building
Last month, the Financial Times reported that Google’s search numbers coming from the iPhone were so high the company’s engineers thought the data were bogus. Further on in the article the company’s head of mobile operations asserts that “the number…
Online real estate’s Winter of Uncertainty
“So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark–the place where the wave finally…
Partial vision
If a listing is fed to an FTP folder and no one sees it, does it exist? The old line about the tree falling in the desert kept bounding around my head after a debate I had with a colleague…
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