About a month ago, the Houston Association of Realtors released a revamped [consumer-oriented] website. I tried to cover this release as objectively as I could, trying to point out the positives and the negatives from a REALTOR’s standpoint. In an effort to get the point…

There is an Ancient Chinese Proverb that goes something like…”Give a man a fish and you feed him for the day, but teach a man to fish and you feed him for life”. Seems like more & more as I try to “Teach” a Realtor…

Please join me in welcoming the newest regular contributor to the Geek Estate Blog, Eric “The Coach” Bryant. Eric is the Director of Information Services at Prudential California Realty, a broker with 300 agents and offices located throughout the Central Valley area. Eric spends a…

At the time of this writing, Apple is holding a press release to announce their API for the iPhone; you can check out the live feed here. They’ve announced a lot of really incredible stuff so far, but the part that I was most intrigued…

One can accomplish a lot on the web — but, can you sell your home and move to a new location using ONLY the web? To help answer that question, I ran across an interesting post on Proud Geek this morning — A Moving Experiment….

Here’s some links for the geeks out there from the Realivent Team: New – EBlogLetter – Sending Newletters Using Your Blogposts Directly from Within your own Site Get Client Testimonials Directly from Your Blogsite PROPERTY BLOGSITES and FEATURED LISTINGS Widget – QUICK LINKS NAV BAR…

Though it was announced last week, I just saw Matt Goyer’s post mentioning a major update in Bird’s Eye imagery, and thought the news worthy of passing along. Here are the US cities (counties or MSA’s in some cases) with updated imagery: Etowah Co, AL…

The 80th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted at Real Estate Tomato.

Congrats to the Inman crew for getting their new and improved website up and running!

Let’s just say that I’m having lunch with Sergei Brin and he asks me for my opinion on how to make Google Adwords better. (Official odds – 1 in 999999999999999999999999; look it up!). This would be my response: RSS Feeds and Google Adwords! Here’s why….