There’s been much talk and hype about the latest entrant in real estate OpenDoor, which just closed $9.5 million. While they have publicly stated they aim to enable home owners to sell their home online in 3 days. They have not publicly said how they plan…

OpenDoor just closed a $9.5 million round. The list of angel investors involved, is literally quite insane: Paypal co-founder Max Levchin Former YouTube and Facebook CFO Gideon Yu Eventbrite co-founder Kevin Hartz Y Combinator’s Sam Altman Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo Yammer co-founder David Sacks Angelist’s…

This is somewhat old news now (announcement was July 1st), but I thought I’d briefly mention the fact that Zillow won the MSN deal that was opened up when Realtor.com decided to abandon the strategy of partnering with portals (which I covered here). A win…

I read the article on Inman that Ben Kinney is coming out with a Zillow killer. Blossor. As I read through the positive comments from hundreds of Realtors, I could see that Zillow is not very popular in the Realtor community. It seems anything that…

Those running teams (particularly real estate tech startup founders) should certainly take a look at Slack for your teams communication. It’s real-time messaging, archiving and search brought into one. Prior to switching to Slack about a month ago, our team was primarily using group Skype chats to…

I’m impressed with the NuOffer website. Clearly, they have some design talent. [via Vendor Alley]

HomeCanvasr recently relaunched with a focus of enabling buyers in New Jersey to find pocket (& coming soon) listings. Smart to go after one small geographic area, in a quest to build marketplace liquidity. This startup spotlight video is a little dated (late last year),…

You all know I’m a travel addict. And news flash: that isn’t changing anytime soon. In a couple weeks, I’m headed back out on the travel trail. Well, more like the “moving” trail since I’ll be living in Santiago, Chile for 6 months as part of the Start-up…

The brokerage for which I work (8z Real Estate), recently released version 2.0 of an internal mobile application.  This mobile app, for the Android and iOS platforms, helps agents create listing based micro content quickly by ‘checking in’ at listings.  The micro content includes an image, a…

As I said several years ago, I think the history of the home opportunity is a massive one. Essentially, a CARFAX for homes. No one has really nailed it though, at least in my opinion. There are several entrepreneurs and funded startups dabbling in this space……