Like it or not, realize it or not, real estate agents and brokers are in the business of building community. As such, I thought I’d share CMX’s 7P’s of Community: It’s a simple framework for building belonging. If you want to understand this topic more…

Last week, I investigated category kings further. On the residential side of real estate, the unwavering category king is Zillow Group. In addition to their flagship brand, they own Trulia, StreetEasy, and even power Yahoo! Real Estate. Realtor.com is a distant second, with no legitimate…

My strong suspicion is the majority of “real estate AI” is…. well, a bunch of PR and marketing muscle, with little to no data/machine learning/tech substance backing it up. In other words, it’s bullsh*t. Chat bots with basic algorithms are not AI. “Mechanical Turking”, which involves humans…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Marty Collins from Dezignable. Several months ago, I first met her at a real estate tech meetup where Bryan Copley was presenting. We’re thrilled to have her as a member of Geek Estate Mastermind….

Zillow’s CEO, Spencer Rascoff, recently did an interview at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit in New York. The video is below, for those curious folk.

Last week, Greg dove into the topic of Zillow and referrals with his piece called Buying Leads on Layover. Just a week after Move announced the acquisition of Opcity, Zillow announced a new additional Premier Broker pricing product based on a “performance advertising expense” or, more plainly,…

Since there is content posted both on the public Geek Estate Blog (founded in 2007) and within the the GEM (Geek Estate Mastermind), I wanted to take a minute to explain what the difference between the two are. I want to be fully transparent with…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Sahil Gupta from Patch Homes. Without further ado… What do you do? I’m the co-founder of Patch Homes, a financial institution that’s focused on unlocking home-equity wealth for homeowners in a debt-free manner. For…

Congrats to Chris Smith and the Curaytor team for launching “Convert”. A lead conversion manager. Here’s the backstory on Convert: I’ve written about CRMs in 2011, 2014 and again in 2016. It’s a tough, tough….TOUGH space to crack. It seems everyone has an CRM. But…

This post on commissions and the perception that agents are overpaid is one of the most read articles ever on Geek Estate Blog. I wrote it in 2014. In the fight to reduce commissions, there was an recent addition to the discount model graveyard that…