[Note from editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] We recently published a real estate market map, which includes hundreds of technology companies that are transforming how residential real estate is bought and sold. Today, we’re following that post up with a new market map focused on commercial real estate (the map is…

I saw this Tweet by Spencer Rascoff today showing a listing photo with selective coloring of property boundaries for 1223 Ocean Road in Bridgehampton. The tactic certainly makes the image pop. I thought it to be quite a smart marketing angle on the luxury side of…

RaiseMe’s recent fundraising caught my attention: A startup that uses micro-scholarships to motivate students and demystify the cost of higher education. In partnership with over 300 colleges and universities, RaiseMe has extended over $2 billion in scholarships for milestones like an “A” in an AP course…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Daniel O’Toole from TowerHouse. He and I had a great discussion in San Francisco during Inman, and he recently joined the Geek Estate Mastermind. He’s working on a product that has traces of “history…

Are you still paying to design and print your real estate folders? Presentation folders can cost up to $3000 in design and printing. If your office regularly provides real estate folders for your clients, you may be eligible to save thousands of dollars with the…

I’ve attended about 30 RE BarCamp’s all across the country. Most of them were on behalf of Zillow, but have certainly attended numerous since I departed in 2010 (including Phoenix, Austin, and helped organize a Seattle one). A couple weeks ago, I attended RE BarCamp X held…

During one of the Hacker Connect sessions, Maëlle Gavet from Compass said the following: It’s about the agent. That, right there, is my problem with Compass. They are catering to the real estate agent. As long as that’s the case, they aren’t really changing anything. At…

It’s no secret historical rates of return for real estate beat virtually every investment category. I’ve been thinking a lot about a question I touched upon briefly in last week’s newsletter: How does the industry get individuals to invest 10-15k into real estate, instead of bonds…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Thomas Rebaud from Meero. Without further ado… What do you do? I am the CoFounder and CEO of Meero, an AI driven photography platform, the world leader in large-scale photography and video production. In…

One of the sessions at Hacker Connect last week was a short interview with Seth Siegler, one of Geek Estate’s Mastermind founding members. Not all MLS access contracts are created equally. Field names can be, and are, different. Some systems only allow a single session…