All along, I had a feeling this would happen. Just like an unreasonable seller in a declining real estate market, Yahoo rebuffed the advances of a ready and willing buyer (Microsoft) numerous times. Reason? The offer presented by Mr Softee “shortchanged” Yahoo’s past stock value…

In August of 2005, the real estate market began to shift and adjust. Notice of Default recordings were on the rise, Trustees Sales began to emerge, then the Foreclosures, REO’s, (Bank Owned) and Real Estate Auctions started to dominate many of our markets across the…

Please join me in welcoming our newest Geek to the Geek Estate Blog — Brad Andersohn, who is one of three community builders at Active Rain (you can find his blog here). With over 22 years experience in the real estate industry, Brad specializes in…

I wanted to extend a congratulations to the Redfin team for adding foreclosures and for sale by owner properties to their already impressive website. I think it’s safe to say home buyers searching on Redfin will definitely benefit from the increased inventory of properties. More…

I spend a great deal of time in the SEO world and when I heard Greg Boser had built a real estate website solution, I was naturally interested. I recently caught up with Greg and was able to ask him a few questions. (Note: PropertyTown…

Last Friday (April 25) we put on what I think is the first ever Real Estate Photography workshop. The sign-up process was a good indication of the current popularity of this subject. We sold out a week in advance. We sold several canceled seats almost…

Thanks to my newest BFF’s at makeuseof.com (an absolute must for any RSS Reader), I have found Digsby! I have been looking long and hard for an application that can allow me “All-in-one” access to my Emails, Social Networks (Twitter, Facebook, & MySpace), and my…

Many people have already posted on this bit of news, namely Myron Adams (RESO Exec Director) here, Michael Wurzer on FBS Blog, Inman News, Masters Report, BloodhoundBlog, and more. But I will try to post the information here with links to more information where appropriate:…

Let me introduce a recently released WordPress plugin which I find to be a very high value — Seesmic. As I learned on Techcrunch, Seesmic, a video conversation start-up – founded by Loic Le Meur, a well-known European entrepreneur – released a WordPress plugin which…

From the MyBlogLog Blog (try saying that one 3 times fast) — MyBlogLog hCard & vCard: More Microformats, More Portable Data. They are supporting the hCard format as well as the vCard format to enable you to download contact details directly to your address book….