I had the chance to send Myron Lo, ZipRealty’s Director of Product Strategy, a few questions to learn more about the thought process behind their latest release adding Realius community estimating technology to their listing detail pages. Below are my questions and his responses: Q:…

It looks like ZipRealty is the brokerage that will bring community estimating to the general public. ZipRealty has always been one of the most progressive brokerages, so the fact that they are the first brokerage to add community estimating technology to their web site is…

I attended the Legal Counsel Seminar at the National Association of REALTORS® convention in Orlando in November. One of the speakers there was Marcel Bryar, deputy general counsel and vice president at Fannie Mae. He spoke about Fannie Mae’s efforts to prevent foreclosures, handle short…

We’re happy to have the CoRE back here at Geek Estate this week. What was I looking for? As you may or may not know, I’m a huge fan of a strong personal voice, so that was a high priority in my selection process. I…

With a fair number of agents and brokers likely planning web site redesigns in 2009 in order to stand out from the competition, I’m going to start spending as much time as I can gathering insights from agents and brokers going through the redesign process…

Here’s a great way to syndicate and manage RSS feeds like none other I’ve seen.  Feedfuze allows you to create fuzes, then place them in containers to be hosted on your Blog or Website.  Fully functional with editing capability.  You can select which articles from…

It’s no secret I’ve always been a fan of Google Street View. Today, there is exciting news for fellow street view fans — they’ve doubled their coverage in the United States. There are some cool images at Google LatLong that are in the new coverage…

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…