It’s no secret I’m not the biggest fan of the Broker Public Portal. I really don’t see how it makes strategic financial sense, and have long thought the project will be a colossal waste of money rebuilding the exact offering that has taken Zillow 10 years – and millions and…

Durham N. Carolina’s Adwerx is a digital advertising platform for residential real estate that was created using a concept and code for a completely different vertical, musicians. Jed Carlson and his team of now 37 employees used their experience to build a system that allows…

Zillow Group is making another acquisition: Dotloop (read press release). +   Zillow seems to buy up every innovative technology player in the entire industry. I can’t fault them for buying up the talent, and mindshare. I have to wonder if any technology companies are going to be left as independents…

Early on at Zillow, I used Yahoo! Pipes as a way to aggregate and filter web results with zero actual programming knowledge (Pipes was mentioned by Justin in this article from 2010). It was a cool tool back in the day. Fast forward several years,…

Project Upstream, as far as I can tell, is all about consolidating the MLS data. Zillow currently has to take data from hundreds of MLS organizations, in a variety of formats, and consolidate it to put it on Zillow. Once Upstream is completed, they will…

I’ve long thought (known) there is opportunity for brokerages to be the local market expert with the media (I wrote that post over 4 years ago in 2011). I agree with Brian — Pacific Union’s Market Pulse video is a smart approach to delivering local real estate…

    John Backes and Sean Caho believe that Dallas should be the epicenter of real estate technology. Together they have founded an accelerator to help early stage real estate technology companies get access to funding and resources. Since announcing on 6/23, The Motive accelerator…

Inman Connect San Francisco will take place at the Hilton San Francisco Union Square from August 4-7, 2015. This year there are 36 companies slated to be a part of “Startup Alley”, a feature that allows new RE tech related companies the ability to meet with…

I’ll be in San Francisco from August 4th-9th. If you’re traveling into town for Inman Connect, or live in SF, and interested in meeting up — send me an email (drew at horizonapp co)…or, do the following: Download Horizon from an iPhone or iPad, and…

For those of you reading from outside the confines of the United States, what property search sites do buyers utilize in your country? Please leave URL’s in the comments, along with the name of the country. [Photo via Miami.edu]