A real estate website lacking a property search tool is not only non-competitive, but in this day and age, it can be safely called obsolete. Assuming you are a Realtor who sees the importance of keeping up-to-date technologically, the next question is: where to start?…

Wow, two in one week — we’ve got another contributor joining our ranks! Please join me in welcoming Kaya Hardin to the Geek Estate Blog team! Kaya focuses on Media Relations for IDX, Inc., a company nationally known as a leading provider of real estate…

In short, I think embedding Google Street View imagery into a single property website is a great idea. Zoltan at RealBird has a writeup that shows how to embed street view imagery into a RealBird single property site. Or you can use MyMarketWare to integrate…

Recently at the DEMO Conference (a conference for start-ups to showcase their new technologies), a company called Sprout launched a new application that allows anyone to create a professional Widget. Real Estate agents will like this new slick tool in that it is very easy…

As I continue to find new tools online, I will write about them here if they are applicable to the real estate business. With as much real estate photography talk as is going on here, I though I should share this great tool. Toady I…

Though you might have seen Zilpy’s BETA site sometime over the past month (they’ve been writing on an AR blog the past couple weeks), Zilpy “officially” launched today with a press release. According to their site, Zilpy is a free online rental market facts and…

It seems like yesterday the University of Phoenix Stadium (Home of Arizona Cardinals) was heavy in construction. Now it’s poised to serve as home to Super Bowl XLII with both teams landed and engaging practice here as of Monday. The event (along with the FBR…

Please join me in welcoming Marc Grayson to the team of geeks here at Geek Estate Blog. I met Marc in San Francisco at Bloggers Connect about six months ago, and have kept in touch ever since. Marc is the president and founder of the…

Since I’ve written about Google StreetView twice before, I thought this video might be of interest to some people. [via Spatially Adjusted via thevacationeers]

There’s an interesting post at webmapper that’s probably worth reading, especially if you are a techy interested in real estate – Neighbo(u)rhood 2.0 The new services and products launched by Urban Mapping, Zillow, and the Dutch CBS in the first weeks of January may herald…