About Drew Meyers

Founder of GEM Diamond. Zillow Alum. Real estate tech geek. Travel addict & former co-founder of Horizon. Social entrepreneurship advocate. Fan of Red Hot Chili Peppers.

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Carnival of Real Estate #60

Carnival of Real Estate #60

The 60th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at For Sale by Locals.

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Q&A With Christian Sterner at WellcomeMat

Q&A With Christian Sterner at WellcomeMat

WellcomeMat has certainly been one of the more talked about names within the RE.net whenever people are talking about online video. To date, they have focused mainly on connecting videographers around the country with real estate professionals looking for help creating video, though they certainly…

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Google's Real Estate Strategy

Google's Real Estate Strategy

The latest edition of Inman TV is definitely an interesting one given that it involves Google — anytime Google does anything, people usually take note given the scale that they operate at and the vast user base that they reach. Joel Burslem of Inman News…

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Inside Realius' Price Me Now

Inside Realius' Price Me Now

As I mentioned this weekend, Realius’ new Price Me Now was shown off at TechCrunch40 on Monday. They were ranked a 2.2 out of 4 in their “demopit” as part of TechCrunch40, though I think that’s a bit low (but to be fair, I didn’t…

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Providing Value to Potential Home Buyers Moving to Your Area

Providing Value to Potential Home Buyers Moving to Your Area

Kris Berg is a genius. Or maybe it’s her husband Steve. It doesn’t really matter. Regardless of whether it’s Steve or Kris (or both), they are doing an awesome job with their website, SanDiegoCastes.com. The site is a valuable resource for home buyers interested in…

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Carnival of Real Estate #59

Carnival of Real Estate #59

The 59th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at EKDAY!

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Fantasy Real Estate Coming Soon – Realius’s Price Me Now Game to be Launched at TechCrunch40

Fantasy Real Estate Coming Soon – Realius’s Price Me Now Game to be Launched at TechCrunch40

Realius, which is building a suite of fantasy real estate games, announced that they are unveiling their 1st game — Price Me Now — at the TechCrunch 40 conference. The basic concept of the Price Me Now is to allow people to guess the price…

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Property News at Properazzi

Property News at Properazzi

Just a quick heads up about you can find a wealth of real estate news aggregated from all over the world at Properazzi News. You can filter to just show stories relating to the market, architecture & design, curious, or eco-living from around the globe….

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Q&A with Mark Shacknies, CEO of MyDealBook

Q&A with Mark Shacknies, CEO of MyDealBook

MyDealBook is another new site that is focused on tapping into the “wisdom of the crowds”, though it is geared towards the commercial (rather than residential) real estate market. In order to learn more about the company, I decided to do a short e-mail Q&A…

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Embeddable Maps from Ask

Embeddable Maps from Ask

Mashable clued me into another technology announcement that could potentially benefit the real estate industry — this one mentioned the fact that you can now embed maps from Ask.com into websites and blogs (similar to embeddable Google Maps). One thing to note is something Sean…

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