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As Estately grows, so does consumer choice

By Joel Burslem | March 2nd, 2010
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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 searching by [...]


Looking back at Real Estate Connect New York

By Brian Boero | January 19th, 2010
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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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Zillow starts charging for listings

By Joel Burslem | December 14th, 2009
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Starting tomorrow Zillow will be charging for all manual listing uploads to their site. This, as they also add rental properties to their site as well (here’s looking at you Apartments.com, you’re next in the crosshairs).


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“Productizing” the Realtor mind

By Brian Boero | December 2nd, 2009
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One of most interesting (if misguided) things about the RPR project is the drive to create an online property valuation “Gold Standard.” The RPR team intends to do this by layering Realtors’ street-level assessments of value on top of the algorithmic magic that can be worked with mounds of raw property data.
They’re calling it the [...]


Things you may have missed while contemplating the RPR

By Brian Boero | November 13th, 2009
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God, I love that acronym. “Reaper.” There’s so much fun to be had there.
Anyway, a few non-RPR items popped up in the past six days that are worth noting.
Here’s what caught my eye:
Redfin raises another $10 million


The era of “Yeah, we have a mobile app” has officially ended

By Brian Boero | May 3rd, 2009
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“To be honest, I think the iPhone app — maybe not in this first version, but out on the horizon — might be better than our Web site”
That’s Zillow COO Spencer Rascoff in an Inman article covering the launch of the company’s iPhone app.
It’s a remarkable statement. And I agree with it. But I would [...]


Zillow’s new iPhone app: Taking it to the streets

By Marc Davison | April 29th, 2009
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When David Gibbons gave me an early peek of the new Zillow iPhone app on Monday, my first thought was how this would take the frustration I feel online at home to the streets. Great. Now trying to figure out what’s real when it comes to home values can be frustrating everywhere!
But then I delved [...]


Zillow turns three, escapes easy asessment

By Brian Boero | February 10th, 2009
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Zillow turned three last week. I totally missed it until I ran across Simon Baker’s post yesterday, which lays out some astute observations about what the young company means. People ask me about Zillow all the time. What’s the strategy?…


Forget transparency: Let’s find a new clarion call in 2009

By Brian Boero | January 6th, 2009
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That’s my mortgage broker, letting is all hang out. My Realtor? When my wife and I sold, I knew exactly what she netted. I knew her split. I asked. The closing costs on my recent refi were of course conveniently…


Let’s call it Zulia

By Brian Boero | December 27th, 2008
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Brian wrote this toward the very end of December 2007. I remember both of us flying down to Los Angeles (each from different destinations), meeting at the airport and grabbing a cab to meet with a client. We were throwing…


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