Toronto was put on the “smart city” map by Google. Now, Bill Gates’ investment firm (Belmont Partners) is putting “Belmont Arizona” on the map with $80 million to purchase 25,000 acres. (via cnbc.com) If you don’t know where “Belmont” is, not to worry. The city…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with the founder of Infabode, Matt Partridge. Matt was yet another founder I met in New York while attending the mipim summit. Without further ado… What do you do? I’m the founder and CEO of a company…

One of the most interesting technologies I came across in NYC at mipim was Cubedots, which helps sell off-plan residences. Get a flavor by watching this video…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with Sander van de Rijdt, the founder of PlanRadar. PlanRadar was one of the three startups who advanced from the startup competition at the mipim summit in New York. Without further ado… What do you do?…

One of the podcasts I listen to regularly is Acquired.fm (iTunes here). Their most recent episode was on Atlassian’s IPO. (note Acquired covered the Zillow-Trulia deal last year). The company is valued at over $12 billion. They’ve never raised VC money. Let that set in. A…

[Update: I totally spaced and forgot Market Leader bought Diverse Solutions. My bad.] I visited Zillow Group’s investor relations page because I wanted to listen in on yesterday’s earnings call (you can see results of Q3 here). [text in the next few paragraphs below is irrelevant given Diverse…

I watched the video of Robert Reffkin’s vision for real estate’s future (via Inman)… Compass’ goal is 20% market share in the top 20 cities by 2020. How are they going to do it? Invest in their team (meaning buying agents), and build a…CRM? Say…

I’m a big fan of what I see from GiveRealty; how can you not be when you realize they have donated over $700,000 to charities? I actually came across their work in 2013, but took another look this morning and wanted to highlight two specific…

It’s pretty easy to figure out why NAR put out the ad above. Follow the money. Realtors don’t get paid when people rent. They only earn a commission when buyers buy homes. It’s not optimal, but I’m a renter. Always have been. Am I annoyed I’m not…

In our latest real estate tech entrepreneur interview, we’re speaking with the c0-founder and CEO of StackSource, Tim Milazzo. Tim was another founder I met in New York while attending the mipim summit. Without further ado… What do you do? I’m the Co-founder & CEO at StackSource. We…