Saturday morning started out like any other for me. Groggy with my coffee in hand, I checked my e-mail. David Gibbons had forwarded me a link to the now infamous “Leave Realtors Alone” video. I remember thinking to myself how it capped off a great…

Coulda Been a Contender Audio I’ve been engaged in several blog discussions in the past couple weeks that have come down to the fundamental question: “Is technology innovation within the scope of a brokerage’s core competency?” It has taken me back to a post I…

The 60th edition of the Carnival of Real Estate is posted over at For Sale by Locals.

No matter what your opinion is of Zillow’s position in Real Estate, we should see their success in raising capital as something good for the industry overall. In my opinion, everyone from Dale Stinton to Glenn Kelman should be rejoicing in it. Real estate tech…

We just translated the Geekestate Blog into Japanese with the help of Google and Microsoft. So what does $87 million mean in Japanese ? Well…$87 million! This amount of capital has no language barriers and everyone around the world can understand that Zillow’s $87 million…

Congratulations to the Zillow Team, your stock option net worth just had a significant emotional experience today. 🙂 $87 million is spectacular and Zillow must have some pretty amazing plans since some very intelligent investors have partnered with them. However, this news struck a sour…

One of the most important factors in creating great property photos is post processing (photo-editing) the images after they come out of the camera. The image above is by Aaron Leitz who is a professional real estate and architectural photographer that works in the Seattle…

The Austin Board of REALTORS® has been investing in some very cool technologies lately. We’re currently transitioning over to MLXchange, which is pretty awesome because it has features that include contact management, agent websites, client gateway pages, etc. So we’re on the same page, Client…

WellcomeMat has certainly been one of the more talked about names within the RE.net whenever people are talking about online video. To date, they have focused mainly on connecting videographers around the country with real estate professionals looking for help creating video, though they certainly…

The latest edition of Inman TV is definitely an interesting one given that it involves Google — anytime Google does anything, people usually take note given the scale that they operate at and the vast user base that they reach. Joel Burslem of Inman News…