The other day, I worked at a coffee shop right near where I used to live in Queen Anne. The old coffee shop closed down since I was there (probably a year ago), and now its under a new name and new ownership. The new…

Mоѕt buyers today prefer pulling up their favorite search engine and running a quick search online to find out аbоut the latest properties аvаilаblе on their local market, but the visitor to lead ratio with online traffic can be unusually low…if you don’t know how…

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Rayhan Rafiq Omar of Wigwamm — all the way from London. Here’s a bit more about him, from his own mouth… What do you do? Design apps to make life easier for estate and lettings…

+ Zillow has announced they are paying $50M in cash for StreetEasy. StreetEasy is the #1 site in New York, the US real estate market pretty much everyone has known has been Zillow’s major weakness since it launched in 2006. Back in late 2006 while…

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Justin Alanis of Rentlytics. He and I spoke recently, and they are well on their way toward coming out of Beta with their offering. Here’s a bit more about him, from his…

Google+ is an outstanding tool for real estate agents. With Google+, agents can improve local search engine rankings, become more familiar with a target audience, and build relationships with industry influencers. But real estate agents can easily invite trouble by not using Google+ appropriately. To…

It’s been awhile since I’ve looked at the Walk Score home page, but I like what I see today… The trend toward minimalist home page designs continues…

In our latest Meet the Real Estate Tech Entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Zeb Dropkin of RentHackr. Zeb and I had coffee in NYC prior to him heading to Chile for the Startup Chile program, but is now back in New York again. Here’s a bit more…

Geek Build 2012 began over one year ago as an attempt to build a real estate website from scratch using input from the GeekEstate community and industry experts. We had excellent momentum and participation in the beginning, and then, as happens to many a project, things…

There was an article recently in Inman about the New York Real Estate Tech Startups meetup that took place recently, and 60 people attended. If people in New York attend an event such as this (there are 434 people in their meetup group) — then…