Those that have been reading this blog a long time may remember the post I wrote about the history of the home (all the way back in 2012). That’s more or less the opportunity HomeZada sees as well. They recently launched for consumers. I’ve spent some time…

Pretty much every industry knows about Zillow’s acquisition of Trulia. The transaction finally closed yesterday, resulting in the newly formed Zillow Group. If you want some more robust thoughts on what this all means, Rob has a few here – but I wanted to touch on something completely different….

Obama’s recent interview with Kara Swisher: [via AVC]

In January of 2014, I wrote: Will the industry take an Orbitz approach (6 largest airlines teaming together to take on Expedia, Travelocity, etc), with the largest franchises/brokers teaming together to build a new portal? The national broker public portal — which I’ve written about…

A couple months ago, I wrote a few thoughts about the National Broker Public Portal project. As a result of seeing Rob’s recent post, I noticed there are a few updates to share, such as the new website (brokerpublicportal.com) and they are in fact moving forward…

It sounds like the FTC is close to finalizing the Zillow-Trulia merger. Expected to close February 17th. Congrats to all my friends at both companies. Watching Zillow-Trulia battle the newly acquired Realtor.com run by News Corp will make for an interesting 2015 and 2016.

Take a peek: Keep. From my understanding, it’s a branded version of the home reports Zillow send (details). Smart approach. [H/T to Audie for the heads up on this one]

I’m not sure how many of you read Seth Godin. Those that do, know he recently wrote about the end of geography, and concluded with this statement: If you’re still betting on geography, on winning merely because you’re local, I hope you have a special…

This coming weekend in Seattle, Zillow is sponsoring a hackathon with participation from the White House, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the Department of Housing and Urban Development, and offering up a $10k grand prize for the winner. It was announced a couple weeks ago,…

Zillow purchased Trulia. News Corp purchased Realtor.com. Clearly, there are things happening in the real estate industry. Joel thinks 2015 will be a big year in real estate tech. I tend to agree. But is anything really really big happening? Perhaps a real estate industry moonshot? If…