Doug Heddings, who covers the Manhattan market at True Gotham, has built a great brand for himself with the help of video. However, he gets more than branding from his video efforts — he actually uses video to help move properties. Doug was a guest…

If you ask me, one of the hardest pieces of blogging is consistently finding content ideas. One possible source of interesting content is pure data — essentially, anything in a spreadsheet is potential blog content. Though Google Docs can also be used to embed a…

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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…