Lasso is a new tool that lets you bookmark listings across ALL websites, and takes notes and discuss them with their friends, family, or co-workers. I know many here read 1000Watt, too. Brian mentioned a few thoughts on Lasso in his most recent Friday Flash…

I just became aware of Give Back Homes via a post in a private FB group I’m a member of. It linked to “Can Social Entrepreneurship Transform House Sales?” Giveback Homes is dedicated to creating effective relationships between families in need of a home and a…

Spencer Rascoff is, of course, the co-founder of HotWire and current CEO of Zillow. He’s as big of an entrepreneur advocate as you’ll find, and shared a few words of inspiration for entrepreneurs last night at the GeekWire Awards ceremony. Here’s the video… [via GeekWire]

Zillow’s newest innovation, the Zestimate Forecast, was announced yesterday… I’m a big big fan of the strategy. Is the data perfect? Nope. Are the forecasts accurate? Who knows. But that doesn’t matter at the end of the day. This is yet another innovation to win the consumer….

Apparently Nationstar has big ambitions. Nationstar envisions that consumers and real estate agents who come to its site will be able to list their properties, manage them, sell them, buy them, and look for “downstream” mortgage, title, appraisal and closing services. and… Nationstar also said…

In our latest real estate tech interview, I’m talking to Vincent Turner of Planwise. I sat down with him today at the Impact HUB in Seattle and spoke a bit about his company, the REach program, as well as the new app we are working on…

New York Times recently published a great read on the 43 questions homebuyers should ask before picking a new town. The article suggests to home shoppers that rather than using a standard checklist of what to ask when looking for a place to live, a…

I’ve been thinking a bit about the future of Geek Estate recently…and I’d like to get some feedback from the readers here. I’ve never spent much time trying to monetize this blog, but the fact of the matter is that it does take time to…

Yes, there are dangers to pre-MLS listings. But a large chunk of houses are bought and sold that way anyway. When it comes to consumer internet opportunities, those that give consumers what they want — which in this case, is access to listings the general…

You may have seen the interview with Andrey Nokhrin earlier today. I had the chance to sit down with him last week in Pioneer Square and discuss the product/business he is working on, Flipt. Watch the following video for a summary: Here are my high level thinkings……