Your favorite real estate sites and blogs today are slick and shiny, modern and contemporary, functional and 2.0. But that wasn’t always the case. Check out some of your favorite sites way back when: Zillow.com circa January 2005 The Phoenix Real Estate Guy circa January…

Since single property websites became a powerful (somewhat) mainstream marketing tool for real estate, forward thinking agents all over the country have starting building them for every single one of the listings they market. But so far, the choices we have at our disposal, leave…

To my surprise, during the last two press releases regarding the Houston Real Estate market stats, HAR has gone video. By and large, the clip consists of summarizing the association’s position already stated in the release. Nevertheless, this is a small step forward in the…

About a month ago, I got tipped by a developer buddy of mine, Stephen Parker about a powerful new platform called GoodBarry. Originally out of Australia, this platform markets itself as providing a complete online business solution to turn your website into an efficient money…

All along, I had a feeling this would happen. Just like an unreasonable seller in a declining real estate market, Yahoo rebuffed the advances of a ready and willing buyer (Microsoft) numerous times. Reason? The offer presented by Mr Softee “shortchanged” Yahoo’s past stock value…

I was a late comer to the blogging party. About a year and a half ago, I found Active Rain and first discovered purposeful blogging. This was around the same time that most traditionalists were discounting this phenomenon as just a fad for ‘youngins” looking…

When I first came into the blogging world (seems like a long time ago), there was a period of time when I could not decide which blogging platform was best for my personal needs. Each option had positive aspects as well as negative ones and…

About a month ago, the Houston Association of Realtors released a revamped [consumer-oriented] website. I tried to cover this release as objectively as I could, trying to point out the positives and the negatives from a REALTOR’s standpoint. In an effort to get the point…

Let’s just say that I’m having lunch with Sergei Brin and he asks me for my opinion on how to make Google Adwords better. (Official odds – 1 in 999999999999999999999999; look it up!). This would be my response: RSS Feeds and Google Adwords! Here’s why….

According to a feature story on Yahoo’s home page yesterday, many folks around the country are turning to house swapping to move properties in hard markets. Originally a practice utilized primarily for vacation homes, house swapping works by matching relocation clients with similarly valued homes….