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Realtor Scott Kleiman Needs Your Help To Live

Realtor Scott Kleiman Needs Your Help To Live

Susanne Hayek who is a real estate photographer in the Pasadena, CA area and reader of my blog told me yesterday that her good friend Scott Kleiman who is a Realtor at Sotheby’s in Pasadena is very sick with CLL (Leukemia) and needs to find…

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Carnival of Real Estate #73

Carnival of Real Estate #73

The 73rd edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at SanDiegOh.

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"Social Saturation" covering Beer with Bloggers at Inman

"Social Saturation" covering Beer with Bloggers at Inman

First of all, I loved all the coverage of Inman Connect New York last week. Between all the blog posts, message boards, and live Twitters, it allowed me to feel like I was there listening to the speakers myself. Bill Wendel as RealEstateCafe used Twitter…

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8 ways analytics software will help build a broader audience

8 ways analytics software will help build a broader audience

Reggi has a great writeup at MyTechOpinion for those interested in web analytics — 8 ways analytics software will help build a broader audience.

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A New and Improved BiggerPockets for Real Estate Investors

A New and Improved BiggerPockets for Real Estate Investors

I’m not involved in real estate investing and haven’t really spent much time on the new BiggerPockets site, but here is a good review by Scott Ficek at Minnesota Investment Real Estate.

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Marketing Your Blog – Part Deux

Marketing Your Blog – Part Deux

As a follow-up to Drew’s marketing your blog post, I thought I’d re-cap of some of the main points that I touched on during Wednesday’s Marketing Your Blog panel at Inman Real Estate Connect. Moderator Joel Burslem kicked off the discussion with the question “how…

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A Day in the Life of my 3.83 Years in Real Estate – Part 1

A Day in the Life of my 3.83 Years in Real Estate – Part 1

As a kid who went to a university that primarily focused on science and engineering, that didn’t even have a business program at the time, I have no idea why I went there to study marketing.  As it turns out, it was one of the best…

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Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia, and other leading companies agree to adopt a common data standard for real estate listings

Yahoo!, Zillow, Trulia, and other leading companies agree to adopt a common data standard for real estate listings

A few weeks ago Michael Wurzer of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) posted an open letter to the Yahoo!, Google, Zillow, and Trulia (David Harris touched on this here on GeekEstate too) requesting that we adopt and contribute to the RETS 2.0 standard. From…

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New Zillow Logo

New Zillow Logo

Don’t worry that GeekEstate is turning into some sort of logo reporting blog (see previous post — New Inman Logo — if that makes no sense). Last night Zillow.com pre-released some news to a few bloggers attended Inman Connect NYC that they were rolling out…

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Welcome Peter Chiu to GeekEstate Blog

Welcome Peter Chiu to GeekEstate Blog

I’m happy to announce another contributor to the GeekEstate team — Peter Chiu from Yahoo! Real Estate. Here’s a couple words from Peter: I originally come from an engineering background at a startup company in NYC but I’ve always been interested in real estate. Recently…

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