Recently I had a conversation with a loan originator and thought of sharing it with our readers here to see their take on it. According to this originator, most of the online information on commercial properties is inaccurate. He showed me a list of properties…

WordPress.com websites are free, much easier to setup and has secured login (SSL). This provides limited control when coming to theme selection, installing plugins or widgets. The lack of capability to embed custom code is one common complaint I hear from realtors as evident from…

There was an interesting discussion on Zillow forum on whether it makes sense for real estate agents to create a web site for every property. Needless to say, there are pros and cons to this idea. SMS mobile marketing can be another Realtor tool to…

Google Fusion Tables is a modern data management and publishing web application that makes it easy to host, manage, collaborate on, visualize, and publish data tables online. Though in beta stage, I liked its potential and wanted to give it a try. Zillow Real Estate…

As you all know, graphics adds glitter to any web site. I have shown in my previous post how you can use FusionCharts to create cool Mortgage Charts using the Zillow Mortgage API. In this post, I will show couple of free software you can…

If you own a web site, you may have seen web traffic reports for your site. Every website host provides some form of traffic analysis tools and reporting features as a part of their web hosting package. Based on my experience, many site owners are…

In October, Brian Rothenberg explained in his post how useful Twitter Search can be for Local Social Media Marketing. I am going to show you how to create a search widget to add to your blog or web site to provide relevant content to your…

In August, CyberHomes stopped offering their home valuation API services. I liked their APIs, especially the comparable sales and neighborhood info which were very useful to create visual charts and were used for analysis by many folks. In retrospect, I should have known this from their lack…

There are real estate sites like Zillow, eppraisal and Trulia giving away information like the following via APIs: Mortgage rates (for all the states and national average) Various statistical info like history of home prices for zip codes, neighborhoods and states. If you do not…

Recently someone contacted me and inquired about pulling comparable sales info from Zillow, Trulia, Eppraisal, Yahoo and Cyberhomes. He also wanted to sort the details before storing it in excel for further analysis. If it works well, he wanted to package it and sell to…