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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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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Controlling Your Online Identity

Controlling Your Online Identity

There’s a post over at Mashable by Sean Aune titled 25 Tools for Managing Your Online Identity. I think online identity management is an issue real estate professionals should definitely pay attention too. After all, as small business owners, your online identity is your brand…

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Carnival of Real Estate #58

Carnival of Real Estate #58

The 58th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is now posted at real/diaBlog!

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Another Regular Contributor – Dee Copeland

Another Regular Contributor – Dee Copeland

You’ve probably seen Dee’s photo on the sidebar already, but I’m excited to officially announce the addition of Dee Copeland to the team of regular contributors at GeekEstate Blog. Dee is a Broker-Associate at Keller Williams Realty and Principal of the Copeland Group, a real…

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Technology Providers that can Syndicate Your Real Estate Listings

Technology Providers that can Syndicate Your Real Estate Listings

I think it’s safe to say many local real estate markets are now buyers markets — NAR published a press release saying that, at the end of July, inventory of (existing) homes available for sale had reached 9.6 months of supply. For real estate agents,…

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