Pretty much everything is reviewed online now. Apartments. Restaurants. AirBnB hosts (& travelers). Hotels. Contractors. Books. Lyft drivers (and riders). Couchsurfers. Real estate agents. Etc. I saw an ad on TV last night for Apartments.com. The message was “rate your apartment on Apartments.com”. We’ve been thinking, and…

I’m somewhat surprised I haven’t written anything about Project Upstream yet (though Bryn has). Rob has written about the topic numerous times recently (see here and here) which got me thinking about broker listing data, and the future of the MLS. I actually mostly agree with Rob’s vision…

EveryHome, the next iteration of Rebls, is on Product Hunt today. The basic premise is that every home is for sale (hence, the name). I had a chance to take a look at the site, and chat with Bryan Copley, a few weeks ago pre…

You may have noticed some new ad modules on the site Sunday night. Why? We’re changing the way we charge for sponsorships. Instead of the larger one month sponsorships for one company we’ve done in the past, we will now provide 6 sponsors 100% share of voice across…

You should all go read Rob Hahn’s latest post: The Future of Real Estate, According to Zillow. It’s a topic the industry — and specifically brokerages/franchises/MLS’ who make money from headcount based business models — should think deeply about.  

Since releasing Horizon for iOS in March, we’ve been working on a few improvements. Last night, we finally pressed publish on Version 1.5 — which includes two main changes: a redesigned interface to browse cities and countries and an in-app messaging system. If you have an iPhone or iPad,…

I saw Blockfeed this morning, a hyper local news app in NYC. See Fred Wilson’s Been There Done That post — aggregating hyper local news has been tried (Outside.in & Everyblock among others), but that doesn’t mean Blockfeed’s latest attempt will fail. We all know everyone cares (to some…

If you are a founder in the real estate vertical, trying to figure out where this industry is headed over the next decade — I highly suggest you read this analysis of WeChat by Connie Chan on a16z. WeChat is of course a messaging app…

This isn’t really news anymore (I meant to finish this post earlier this week), but wanted to call attention to the fact that Zillow Mortgage Marketplace recorded over $10M in revenue this past quarter (see press release here). I’ve long thought mortgages was the massive sleeper component of…

  The first time I met Blake and Caroline from Giveback Homes was last summer in San Francisco immediately prior to departing for Start-Up Chile. 12 months later, in the same city, at the same conference (Inman), I had the chance to hang out with Caroline…