Working in a luxury market like ours in Southwest Florida offers some unique challenges. Selling high-end properties, especially when the housing market cools off, requires strict adherence to carefully designed online marketing strategies. To succeed, we’ve had to market our listings and ourselves with precision….

RE friends, blockchains are going to forever change the future of asset management. As the most broadly held asset class on Earth, this means that Real Estate valuations are going to be forever changed by this technology. It will be 100X bigger than anything that the web…

I’m thrilled to announce Geek Estate Blog has undergone a long overdue design facelift. It marks what I’ll call “Geek Estate 3.0.” 1,825. The number of days I’ve been waiting for today. Yes, that’s 5 years. There have been a couple iterations of Geek Estate…

Fred Wilson is right: stakeholder analysis is a crucial component of building a company. a stakeholder analysis attempts to determine what each and every stakeholder desires and the impact to them of an important decision. It is like a scorecard. It is often helpful to look…

In our latest real estate tech founder interview, we’re speaking with Amro Naddy, founder of SolarStory. Without further ado… What do you do? I’m the founder of SolarStory, a data-rich residential solar marketplace — think Zillow meets TrueCar for solar. What problem does your product/service solve?…

In our latest real estate tech founder interview, we’re speaking with Luke Cohler, co-founder and President of Jetty. Without further ado… What do you do? I’m the Co-Founder and President of Jetty, an insurtech startup based in New York City. Together with my Co-Founder, Mike Rudoy,…

The purpose of Geek Estate’s mastermind community is two fold: Curate the world’s most innovative and diverse community of real estate creatives, doers, and pioneers. Make our members wildly successful in their careers building real estate companies. This week’s Geek Estate Mastermind newsletter (#32), I wrote about Hello…

I continue to be fascinated with autonomous cars and the future Built World they will enable. Continental launched their Bee car concept last year. Though the car and concept video are months old, this is the first time I’ve seen it. For those who want…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with my friend and former colleague Jon Boller, co-founder of Grid Consulting. Jon and I worked at Zillow together “back in the day”. He was one of the first 5 inside sales representatives Zillow hired in 2008,…

I’d like to congratulate one of our Geek Estate Mastermind members, Jennifer Kjellgren (previous interview here) for her new partnership with Nest Realty. Intown Expert Realty is rebranding as Nest Realty Atlanta. With 11 offices throughout North Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee — and now Georgia —…