Just in time for the holiday season, Redfin completed a $70.9 million round.

According to Gartner Research, worldwide sales of client relationship management (CRM) software grew by 13.4% in 2013 to over $20 billion in sales. 41% of the sales came from software as a service (SaaS) providers. Communications, media and IT services are the top 3 verticals….

I was bullish on AgentFolio in 2013. See this article for details. It was announced AgentFolio (formerly Buyfolio) is to be discontinued (via GeekWire). Was I wrong in my bullishness? Maybe, but I still think less is more when it comes to search — and…

Over the years I’ve had the opportunity to be involved with the development of several real estate technology initiatives involving the licensing of MLS data. It can be a daunting task to work through the intricacies and nuances that are so disparate from one market to another….

You gotta hand it to them…job well done. The fact that 1,000 agents showed up speaks volumes. That’s an event about the size of Inman Connect (I honestly have no idea what Inman attendance has been over the past few years, but I heard 1,000…

Zillow does it again. I won’t write an essay, but adding reviews to their API is a brilliant move. They just took a massive step toward winning the race for consumer trust.

Crunchbase posted an article today covering the hot investing activity surrounding RE tech. One of the quotes in the post could probably be found in just about every story that has been written on the subject since 1998 or so. “Real estate is a super attractive…

Redfin, the venerable disruptive, tech forward real estate Broker based in Seattle has made it’s first technology acquisition. Details of the deal haven’t been disclosed but it’s one of the smarter moves I’ve seen in the recently bubbly M&A activity in the RE tech space….

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. is acquiring the operators of Realtor.Com, Move Inc. in a cash deal of $950 million. News corp. sees this acquisition as a “powerful pillar” of their portfolio. What are your thoughts? Is this a game changer?

Another RE Tech start-up has moved from stealth to beta recently. Revaluate is hedging a bet that prospective home buyers are hungry for data that exists outside standard MLS descriptions on the homes they are considering. From the about page at Revaluate.Com. “Most real estate sites…