There was a recent article on Inman, stating that $1B has been invested in the real estate sector — and listed many of the startups that had attracted venture capital, and some of the firms behind them. Related, an entrepreneur asked me the other day…

Life360.com, which plans to be the hub of the connected home, has been around since 2008, but I’ve never once heard it mentioned in the real estate industry. I only know about it due to my market research for the location sharing platform (Oh Hey World) we…

Monday marked the release of two new spots from Realtor.com (Trulia and Zillow also released ads), that are the center of their “accuracy matters” strategy… and In short, I think “accuracy matters” is a pretty smart overall strategy. Accuracy is their core differentiator against Zillow…

Redfin’s CEO, Glenn Kelman, penned a post today, titled “Real Estate Brokers Can Coexist With National Portals by Changing the Way We Share Data” I wanted to call attention to this paragraph: Brokerage sites, including Redfin, should drive more traffic to listing brokers In the…

All three of the major portals – Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com – released new television ads today.  I have some thoughts related to the strategies behind them that I’ll share, but haven’t had time to write them up quite yet. In the meantime, have a looksie……

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…