On the heals of the recent news by Surefield, another Seattle-based brokerage you have probably heard about – Redfin – announced their own Automed Home Price Estimates today. You can type in an address here, and you’ll end up on a property page such as…

Many of you know today is #givingtuesday. I recommend you giveback by becoming a member of Giveback Homes. Or Kiva. Or The AdventureProject (which is what I donated to earlier today). Or any other cause you care about. And yes, Black Friday is a con. [Graphic via Mary]

Building marketplaces is a tough, tough game. It’s virtually always a massive chicken and egg problem. I know from experience — Horizon is a marketplace for hospitality exchange (though we aren’t technically involved in a transaction element yet). VersionOne, a VC firm, recently produced a fairly advanced…

I just watched the following video, a short presentation by Brett at New Story (which I’ve written about before): Given I’m a sucker for community, one thing I picked up on was that Brett mentioned that building homes leads to lasting community. Money can’t build…

While most of the industry conversation centers around Zillow’s focus on high performing agent teams, Zillow keeps plugging away with business development efforts to gain more distribution for their mortgage offering. This week’s news was that Zillow Group partnered with Google Compare for mortgage data (press…

There are many, many people in the real estate industry who have WordPress powered websites. Most of those know there are two arms of WordPress. WordPress.org (self hosted, open source) and WordPress.com (hosted, not open source). The big news today is that WordPress.com is now open…

Those of you who have had self hosted WordPress real estate websites for a number of years may remember the local market explorer WordPress plugin (released back in 2009, see launch post here & here). The plugin makes it simple to create city, neighborhood, and zip code pages filled…

Surefield launched their Pricepoint this week (see GeekWire coverage), which you can test out here (coverage for properties in Western Washington only). The concept of personalizing an automated valuation model with custom comps is not new, of course. During my time at Zillow, I spoke with consumers…

This has nothing to do with real estate technology, so if you can handle that, read on… From a comment on AVC from Yasmine Mustafa: Something broke down in the immigration system because despite being brought here, we discovered we were illegal aliens when I…

Super, another Product Hunt find, is taking a crack at easing the pain of home ownership. What is it? a subscription service that provides care and repair for your home. Become a member and we’ll pay to repair or replace covered appliance and home system…