We don’t spend a lot of money on real estate marketing, but Facebook is one place where we dabble in ads. For those of you in the Real Geeks platform or those considering it, they just released a new feature that really improves the Facebook…

Though I still have many friends who work at Zillow, I’m not (financially) biased when I say I’m still constantly impressed with Zillow’s marketing… I’m a fan. (I should note that I just watched it on Youtube and a Realtor.com paid ad came on immediately…

Props to Ari Summer for releasing an open source CLI (command line interface) for querying RETS servers and searching metadata. The gem is built on top of the rets gem, which handles the actual querying and parsing of the RETS server requests. You can download and clone the repo on GitHub: https://github.com/summera/retscli…

Congrats to Rick Ward for launching the redesigned 360Modern. Disclosure: I’ve previously done consulting work for 360Modern.

I’ve alluded to the fact we’ve been working on and testing an Android version of Horizon. Today, I’m excited to be able to announce we’ve released a public Android beta on Product Hunt — with full support for posting and filtering to find sublets. Would…

As both Drew and now Nathan have written, there is a lot of nascent interest in bots for real estate. Most technologists tend to focus on the consumer-facing use cases: helping buyers figure out which homes to look at, answering basic questions about listings, etc. At…

Speaking of architecture… Yes, it’s possible. Pretty cool, right? More reading here and here.

Remax.com recently got a revamp… The site looks pretty good at first glance. There’s a clean home page, detailed information on the listing detail pages, and a way to look up home values (using Homes.com’s AVM is looks like). It’s all great — but I still…

Bot, Why? Sherlock Holmes once said, “It is my business to know what other people don’t.” Real estate agents can certainly attest to this as they are inundated with requests from prospective home buyers and sellers for information. This information is a real estate agent’s most valuable…

I came across WikiHouse via reading through James Dearsley’s proptech review this weekend. Wikihouse is an open source building system which gives people the digital tools to create cheap homes. It’s clear there is a deep, deep social mission behind this Wikihouse. One of not only affordable homes, but…