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…

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…

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…

Inman is planning to launch a completely new website in the next month or so — here’s the new logo they unveiled today at the conference (which I think is a nice improvement). I’m looking forward to the launch of the new site, which will…

I’m speaking on a panel here at Bloggers Connect titled Marketing Your Blog. I’m sharing the stage with 3 other great panelists: Erik Hersman, Principal, Zungu LLC Reggie Nicolay, Regional Technology Director, Fidelity National. He also writes at MyTechOpinion. Brian Rothenberg, Product Manager, Yahoo! Real…

I know a few agents in the Portland area that are working to save the environment and cut paperwork by using a new service called DocuSign. We can all do our part in 2008 for our planet, and I think that online document signing could…

I, for one, think the RE.net would benefit and would love to see it happen. What about you? Check out my post on the Carnival of Real Estate blog for more.

More and more Realtors and home sellers are taking advantage of the expertise of professional real estate photographers. In the slower market these days great photography is an obvious way to complete with all the other listings in this high inventory market. I’ve been building…

Most bloggers know blogging (read: good writing) is hard work and consumes a LOT of time. As a blogger who has spent well over a hundred hours creating content for both my blog and the blogs I contribute to on behalf of Zillow, I realize…

As part of the newly elected Board of Directors of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), I have accepted the challenge along with the other 9 Board members to construct a real estate data standard that can be beneficial for all parties involved: Agents, Brokers,…