It’s been awhile since we’ve talked about Broker Public Portal here (now a joint venture with Homesnap). Just this month, Homesnap raised $14 million. A few stats: 21 million consumers used the Homesnap site/app in 2017 8.5 million consumers engaged with agents on the Homesnap site/app…

According to NAR there has been a lot of speculation recently about the 2008 settlement agreement between the DOJ and NAR. Even though NAR reached an agreement with the DOJ, they successfully discouraged most brokers from using a VOWs by allowing the MLS to charge…

“Whoever solves the loyalty problem wins the future” – Brian Boero Is loyalty a diminishing commodity? A variety of studies have sought to determine whether or not millennials are brand loyal with some finding them more brand loyal than the Generation X and Baby Boomer…

Are you a real estate broker/age? Are you interested in technology? Interesting in building a real estate brand? If so, Sequel released their “How Brokers are Handcrafting the Future of their Real Estate Technology” 2018 report. Download here if you’re interested in learning from a few brokers…

We’ve now published three Geek Estate founding member interview; Jennifer Kjellgren, Sep Niakan, and Eileen Romito. The interviews are meant to give you a taste of current business priorities, products and trends to watch in 2018, and what they enjoy about being a Geek Estate mastermind member. Our 4th interview is with Ryan…

Zillow recently launched a new brand, Out East. It’s a portal for the Hamptons, joining Street Easy as a Zillow Group consumer brand on the East coast. It’s the result of their acquisition of Hamptons Real Estate Online (see here), which turned out to be…

The purpose of Geek Estate’s private community is two fold: Curate the most incredible and diverse membership of real estate innovators, creatives, doers, and creators in the world. Make our members wildly successful in their careers building real estate companies. Most of the longer strategy,…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with co-founder and COO of HelloAlex, Dave Fulk. Without further ado… What do you do? HelloAlex is an Artificial Intelligence software specifically designed for Real Estate agents to help them start conversations with their leads…

At the dawn of digital real estate, there were countless startups with big plans. All were going to disrupt the residential real estate business. The word “disinter-mediate” (a.k.a. for getting rid of agents) was used so often, many thought it was a forgone conclusion. People pointed…

We kicked off our Geek Estate founding member interviews with Jennifer Kjellgren a few weeks ago, and followed it up with Sep Niakan’s last week. The interviews are meant to give you a taste of current business priorities, products and trends to watch in 2018, and what they enjoy about being…