Real Estate Webmasters is sponsoring Geek Estate for the next 30 days. REW has been around a long time and is consistently mentioned as a top tier web design/development firm in the real estate vertical. The biggest objection I hear from people about why they don’t…

Everyone reading this blog are Geeks. You’re more tech savvy than the average agent, by a mile. I tried to pry your home screen apps out of you several months ago, but this is an attempt to go a little bit more in depth with…

Curb Call (Uber for Real Estate) — built by Seth Siegler at the Realogy hackathon. It got 2nd place. I love this idea…I’m not sure leads get any more qualified than someone requesting an agent to show them a house, right now. Who is going to…

There are very few people in this industry who don’t know Benn and Lani Rosales. In our latest real estate tech interview, I’m talking to Benn, who, of course, is the Founder & CEO of AGBeat. I’ll wager a bet that many who read Geek…

I hadn’t seen this video until just a few minutes ago…it’s worth watching. Every moment in the video happens every single day. Nothing really has to be said. The writing is on the wall. Living your life via the phone in the palm of your…

In our latest real estate tech interview, I’m talking to Bryan Garcia, the general manager of Ubertor. Without wasting anymore time, here’s a bit from Bryan… What do you do? To keep things simple, I help Realtors all over the world build beautiful, easy to…

Walkscore released their 2014 rankings. (methodology here) Zillow Reports Record Q3 Results Colorado MLS adopts BIG technology that could allow it to take back control of listings Why it matters that ListHub added 36 new MLSs in 2013 Are there any hardcore geeks out there…

I’ve had the pleasure of being friends with Eric Marke online for a few years now. Back then he was building agent websites for many users of popular Facebook groups for agents, now he’s built one of the best seller lead-gen systems around. HomeValueLeads.com has…

Since I used to work at Zillow, am a techie myself, and readers here are all techies — seems it’s fitting to let you know about Zillow Tech Connect, which was just announced today. What is it? The Zillow Tech Connect program allows technology companies to…

I wrote about Google Helpouts on my personal blog awhile ago was it was first announced. This is the future of search, for complex search topics…such as real estate. Helpouts launched officially today (official Google Blog). How much would you pay to talk via video chat…