A huge congratulations has to go to Jay and Francy for getting all the paperwork done and unveiling the newest Phoenix area brokerage — Thompson’s Realty!   If Jay isn’t the definition of a “Broker Blogger,” I don’t know who is.

There are many real estate technology vendors that build agent websites, with Real Estate Webmasters (REW) being one of the companies in the mix. If you’ve heard about REW before, chances are you’ve also heard about their superb ability to optimize their websites for search…

Hey everyone, here’s a quick reminder for you Realtors.  If you’re due for your 4 year Salesperson license renewal, get it taken care of.  My office, Prudential, requires 7 days to process the paperwork.  They also prefer us not to renew it online, especially if…

Dustin Luther of Rain City Guide and 4REALZ.net fame, along with Jim Marks at Virtual Results are launching “Valuable Internet Marketing Education for Realtors”. (“affiliate” link) A one-day seminar that promises to be jam-packed with useful info is offered. Cost is $149 and includes a…

Recently the readers of my blog and the associated flickr group decided that they wanted to organize some workshops on real estate photography so they’ve put together an initial workshop in Seattle on April 25 to tryout the concept. For all the details and online…

YouTube is Down? That was the message I sent on Twitter and to a few friends yesterday. Each person replied one after the other that they were unable to connect to the YouTube servers yesterday afternoon. I thought it was just a typical blip that…

The 79th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is live over at Overseas Property Investment Blog.

According to a feature story on Yahoo’s home page yesterday, many folks around the country are turning to house swapping to move properties in hard markets. Originally a practice utilized primarily for vacation homes, house swapping works by matching relocation clients with similarly valued homes….

Please welcome me in joining Erion Shehaj to the list of contributors here at Geek Estate Blog. Erion is a real estate entrepreneur and Chief Executive of Signature Real Estate, a Houston based real estate brokerage specializing in investment properties. He also maintains the In…

I’ll admit, I’ve been on the fence about video and listings. My 2 core issues w/ video have been the following: No “Navigation” – I’ve been wanting to see better navigation in video tours, so I can jump right to footage of the kitchen per…