Diverse Solutions released a major upgrade this week to their IDX product — here’s a list of some of the new features: Search by school district Search by price drops Ability to search bank owned, short sale, and foreclosure listings Ability to search FSBO listings…

Yesterday, Google announced they’ve added three more highly requested cities to their street view coverage — Seattle, Baltimore, and Washington DC. Previous Geek Estate Street View coverage: Now Available: Google Street View via API Google Street View — Too Close for Comfort? Google StreetView Expands…

Here’s a few links I thought would be of interest to the readers here: Homes & Land partners with Yahoo! Real Estate Maponics Announces 50,000 Neighborhood Boundaries in 2000 US Cities 21st century real estate brokerage is mobile Years Of Real Estate Blogging – The…

Marc and Brian at 1000watt Consulting put together a list of the top 10 brokerage sites that’s worth taking a look at, particularly if you’re an agent or brokerage looking to improve your web site. I agree with them when they say that consumers (primarily)…

I’m at REBarCamp in Houston right now, and Paul Chaney is currently giving a keynote speech. He just detailed 5 trends that are turning this world upside down: Consumer skepticism and resistance to advertising Media fragmentation is out of control Increasingly the consumer is in…

We have a new entry to the broker blogger space — as of today, Steve and Kris Berg are now operating as San Diego Castles Realty. They were formerly agents for Prudential California Realty and have built a great brand in the San Diego area…

I thought it worth noting that Homethinking added a neighborhood feature today to help consumers compare neighborhoods in separate parts of the country — here’s the press release. To get a feel for the new functionality, take a look at New York neighborhoods compared to…

The trend of RE.net bloggers getting real estate jobs continues — Reggie from MyTechOpinion is now the Social Media Director for Cyberhomes. Congrats Reggie!

I’ve been thinking about writing this story for awhile, but the latest news that NAR is looking for a social media manager finally got me to put my fingers to the keyboard. The list of bloggers from the RE.net finding corporate jobs in the real…

Fellow Geek Estate contributor Mike Price had the chance to meet Guy Kawasaki at the BlogWorld Expo and turned that into a chance to record a podcast with Guy. He posted the interview over at his blog, but I thought I’d share it here as…