Steve Schultz at Yahoo! Real Estate announced a website redesign yesterday on their corporate blog. The two big things to note are the large listing photos on their search pages, which are 4x larger than the previous version of YRE!, and the neighborhood profile videos…

More and more often, I am passing ‘for sale’ signs that have a rider with a vanity domain plastered on it and I think to myself, it’s finally catching on! Single-property sites are powerful, cost-effective tools to promote property listings both online and offline and…

If you reside in the greater Manhattan area and/or attending Inman’s Real Estate Connect conference in January, I’d highly recommend you come a day early for REBarcamp NYC 2009 on January 6th. Here is the Facebook Group & the event page. I know the organizers…

The 120th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at Realty Thoughts. Dustin Luther ran away with top honors this week for his post titled The trouble with Marc’s approach to Twitter.

I recently came across a product that automatically converts your blog posts into audio files.  All you have to do is download this WordPress plugin and upload it to your site.  The process took me about 5 minutes and it’s pretty cool. There are several companies like casino…

I thought Reply’s latest announcement might be of some interest to readers here. Reply Click Marketplace View SlideShare presentation or Upload your own. (tags: click marketplace) Here is the press release and here is Tuesday’s edition of RainRadio that goes into more detail with Reply…

It’s a pretty sure bet that you have a cell phone. What about text messaging, do you use it? If you don’t, consider yourself in a very small minority. Nielsen Mobile surveys shows that by the second quarter of 2008, text messages had exceeded the…

Okay, the title is a bit dramatic. You would die without air, but you’ll live through not having IDX. Your business may not though. We’ve all seen the statistics many times. More than 80% of those in the real estate market use the internet to…

Congratulations to Estately for their expansion to Chicago and Long Island — further coverage at FoREM and BloodHoundBlog.

There are tons of free data sources for your real estate web site and I have one more to add to my list — Walk Score. If you’re not familiar with Walk Score, this is their description of how it works: Walk Score helps people…