In October, Brian Rothenberg explained in his post how useful Twitter Search can be for Local Social Media Marketing. I am going to show you how to create a search widget to add to your blog or web site to provide relevant content to your…

A few years ago when David Gibbons and Drew Meyers both worked at Zillow.com, they came up with the idea of launching a new multi- author blog focused exclusively on real estate technology. GeekEstate was launched and has since become a go-to resource for anyone…

In August, CyberHomes stopped offering their home valuation API services. I liked their APIs, especially the comparable sales and neighborhood info which were very useful to create visual charts and were used for analysis by many folks. In retrospect, I should have known this from their lack…

In addition to using Twitter and Facebook for branding, direct traffic, and relationship building, you can now add “better SEO” to the list of reasons to use the social platforms. While most in the SEO world have thought links shared on Twitter and Facebook have influenced…

There are real estate sites like Zillow, eppraisal and Trulia giving away information like the following via APIs: Mortgage rates (for all the states and national average) Various statistical info like history of home prices for zip codes, neighborhoods and states. If you do not…

Recently someone contacted me and inquired about pulling comparable sales info from Zillow, Trulia, Eppraisal, Yahoo and Cyberhomes. He also wanted to sort the details before storing it in excel for further analysis. If it works well, he wanted to package it and sell to…

As you may or may not know, I’ve been traveling since March (a month and a half on the road in the US, but mostly abroad). As a result, I’ve been a bit disconnected from the Geek Estate community over the past 8 months. However,…

Even though I no longer work at Zillow, I still browse around in Zillow Advice every now and then since that community was part of my daily life for so long. This evening, while making my rounds, I saw a question that caught my attention…

Literally. Google’s local listing in their search results are now larger then the organic listings. Take a look at this Google search for “Hawaii Big Island real estate.” The first 7 listings are large local results with only 6 natural listings below. The reason this…

Twitter search is now one of the most widely used search engines on the web.  With more than 1 billion tweets indexed each month, and more than 150 million Twitter members, that’s a lot of timely content and people at your fingertips.  I know you…