Why isn’t there a way to follow all the listing activity (new listings, price changes, pendings, solds) for regions and agents I care about with a native app? Email listing alerts, with a Twitter-like interface (follow agents, brokers, franchises, ZIP codes, neighborhoods, cities). For consumers, it’s a more…

I spoke with Krishna from TLC Engine (True Lifestyle Cost) this morning, and he showed me Emerald Real Estate in Minnesota as a demo site for their lifestyle search technology. I like the idea of searching based on the actual monthly lifestyle cost of a specific home….

W&R Studios team worked on a MLS search app, called Cloud MLX, at a recent “hack week”… the presentation is below. Read more about the hack week project in part 1 here and part 2 here.

Another company I spoke with while in New York last week at Inman Connect’s Startup Alley was the Certified Charitable Giving Alliance (CCG Alliance). I spoke with co-founder and CEO, Robin Leigh, for a few minutes and learned a bit about her mission and organization. Since…

It seems there is virtually unlimited desire for insight into that very, very large real estate company based in Seattle that starts with the magical letter “Z“. To satisfy that curiosity, John and Todd at GeekWire interviewed Zillow co-founders Rich Barton and Lloyd Frink, along with…

[Disclosure: PrimoListing is a sponsor of Geek Estate this month, and this is a sponsored post.] We all know — pictures speak 1,000 words. Buyers want to look at gorgeous photos, that’s no secret. (see here, here, and here). Are you giving them what they want…

I just saw the news that Zillow Group acquired Naked Apartments for $13 million in cash. Zillow is definitely investing heavily in rentals. Current renters are tomorrow’s buyers, and they obviously realize it’s cheaper to acquire that traffic ahead of the pack rather than compete for it when they…

I had the pleasure of attending the MetaProp NYC demo day last week on my trip to New York City. My take-aways from the event were several fold: The community MetaProp has built in one year is impressive. I’d say they got 100 people there at 9 am on…

Last week was spent at Inman Connect in NYC. The primary reason for the trip was meeting with potential enterprise partners for the recently redesigned StreetAdvisor.com. The other part of my time there was spent helping my dear friends at Giveback Homes with their Startup…

Parse is a “backend as a service”, supported by Facebook. We actually had been talking about switching the server side of Horizon to Parse off and on for the past year. It does geo fairly well out of the box (which is one of the areas we…