[Editor’s Note: HomeZada is sponsoring Geek Estate this month, and this is a sponsored post.] Realtors often times state the importance of their role in helping consumers with their single largest financial transaction, the buying or selling of a home. But there is a long…

Some of you may have seen Open Listings, part of the current Y Combinator batch. The TechCrunch headline: YC-Backed Open Listings Enables Home Buyers To Purchase Houses Without Real Estate Agents Yeah, that’s not going to go over too well with the industry. But that’s…

[Disclosure: HomeZada is sponsoring Geek Estate this month, and this is a sponsored post. That said, HomeZada did not have any editorial say over this article; all opinions and words are my own.] I get pitched a lot of products. Many of them are just slightly…

Regulars know that I’ve written about the idea of a “Hacker News for Real Estate“. I still think it would be cool if something like that existed, and had a community using it daily. The “community” aspect of it is easier said than done of…

All you industry insiders should certainly read Rob Hahn’s most recent post that digs into whether Zillow is truly a company that will reach a $50 billion valuation. I honestly have no idea what the long term valuation will be, but do have one word to add to…

Those that read this blog regularly know I’ve been working on a startup in the travel industry for quite awhile. In fact, the startup journey has included two completely separate travel apps (under same legal umbrella) – Horizon, and previously Oh Hey World. It’s been a long road,…

PlanwiseConnect is a browser extension that hovers at the bottom while your clients browse any of the major portals, allowing them an easy way to ask you questions without leaving their screen. Yeah, I don’t think the big portals are going to like this very…

[Editor’s Note: HomeZada is sponsoring Geek Estate this month, and this is a sponsored post.] Consumers love photos of just about everything on the internet. Just look at the amount of photos on people’s Facebook posts, their dreams and inspirations on Pinterest, the number of…

Real estate media is all about traffic right now.  Broker sites, agent sites, and the national portal websites are battling for SEO, ad placement, and brand recognition. Those of us in the SEO-centric crowd focus a lot on domain names, and how much value they…

I came across Realtyps this weekend. It’s yelp for real estate properties. My hunch is it’s a reaction to Jason Calacanis’ RFP (request for prototype) for brutal real estate reviews. What do you think? Will enough buyers review properties to make it useful? I’d be…