The latest announcement from Zillow Group is going to send shockwaves through the industry… Excited to announce our newest business segment, an expansion of @zillow Instant Offers. Big things ahead. #MoveFastThinkBig #ZGLife https://t.co/H1GgbUucps — Spencer Rascoff (@spencerrascoff) April 12, 2018 Beyond expanding Instant Offers into…

NAR spent $250,000 on a logo refresh. That’s a boatload of money, for a logo that looks virtually identical to the old version (see Inman for further reaction)… Read Rob’s post, or just don’t and push #Logogate to the back of your mind. No matter what…

As you know, Fifth Wall’s portfolio event was last week in Venice. There were three panels held at their office, each covering a category Fifth Wall has made big bets on (the majority of panelists were from portfolio companies): Future of Cities Real Estate-as-a-Service Fintech and…

A few weeks ago, I mentioned a panel organized by the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation. For those interested in VOWs, IDX, and the expiration of the consent decree, below is the full video of the discussion that took place last week in Washington DC: Discuss…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with the Jack Ryan, Co-Founder & CEO of REX Real Estate. Without further ado… What do you do? Using big data, artificial intelligence, and machine learning, REX, takes care of everything both buyers and sellers need, and…

As you know, Fifth Wall’s portfolio event was this week in Venice. There were three panels held yesterday at their office, each covering a category Fifth Wall has made big bets on (the majority of panelists were from portfolio companies): Future of Cities Real Estate-as-a-Service…

The purpose of Geek Estate’s mastermind 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. In this week’s member newsletter…

I (finally) purchased a modern MacBook Pro this week. My old MacBook Pro from 2012 finally was too much to deal with in terms of slowness/performance. As a browser, I’ve been using Chrome for years, but have been using Safari the last few days to see…

Tech enabled real estate brokerage darling Compass recently entered the Chicago market. Clearly, the local brokerage community noticed. Baird & Warner put an ad in the paper (via Geek Estate mastermind member Eileen of Truepad): @Properties put up the following billboard (via Eileen at Truepad via…

A manifesto, the “Parker Principles“, came from Inman’s Disconnect conference last week in Palm Springs. There’s been a fair amount of chatter already in Facebook groups (and likely on Twitter too, but I’ve dropped off in terms of Twitter engagement recently), Rob’s already penned a…