Owen Raun of Online Mortgage Podcast did a great interview with Amy Bouhtinsky, Director of Communications with Zillow.Com. It’s very comprehensive and does a great job of explaining Zillow’s business model, recent announcements and upcoming products. My recent trip to the NAR convention underscored a…

The real estate marketing photo above was done by Scott Hargis, a San Francisco area real estate photographer that does what looks to most like Architectural Digest level work but shoots entire homes for Realtors in 1.5 hours or less. Scott does this high quality,…

So I started creating my blog in June of this year, but I’ve only been really blogging since August or so. Today being November 14th, that means I’ve been a blogger for about three months. My site, www.SanDiegOh.com, is now getting closer to where I…

I’m about to jump on a plane for Vegas and the NAR conference. This is my first visit to Sin City (yes, ever!) but it’s unfortunately also going to be a quick one – home tomorrow – things are busy (especially without Drew around.) Before…

Sadly the old tired GPS had to be replaced, so yesterday a shiny Garmin Nüvi 760 took its place. This is one slick GPS. The 4.3 inch screen is a beauty. Crisp and clear and bright enough to see in the Phoenix sun. The included…

My head spun when I saw this video. It shows how Dash GPS has begun to mashup open API’s from the web and putting them into GPS navigation devices. The video shows the users driving around Silicon Valley looking at home values from Zillow as…

Starting tomorrow, I’m off for a 18 day vacation, but I just couldn’t resist the temptation (I’m a blogging junky) of one last post before I leave — so I tried my best to put together a selection of links for geeks to tide you…

Trulia has introduced “Trulia Agent Featured Listings“. Here’s the highlights: Features: Photo & contact info. featured on your Trulia listings, as well as a new email tool enabling consumers to email property inquiries directly to your mailbox Totally new, enhanced property detail page embedded with…

I recently did an interview with a national business publication regarding consumer usage of the web in real estate. One of the questions I was asked is why the web has been become so important recently to the strategy of real estate professionals. The answer…

Setting up an XML feed for your listings is a great way to get added exposure for your listings by syndicating them to a variety of real estate portals. Since I’m helping support the coming Zillow Listings Feed program, I’ve had conversations with agents, brokers,…