I think a massive home run opportunity, is to build a marketplace for pocket listings with a consumer base rather than just agents. Zillow is going after the pocket listings opportunity with “Coming Soon“… Smart. Very, very smart.

There are a ton of social networks focused on neighborhoods. Nextdoor (prior coverage) is likely the largest and most well known. Fatdoor is re-launching. With robots. Truthfully, this just makes me sigh. For those who want to connect with your neighbors with robots, you can sign…

Monday marked the release of two new spots from Realtor.com (Trulia and Zillow also released ads), that are the center of their “accuracy matters” strategy… and In short, I think “accuracy matters” is a pretty smart overall strategy. Accuracy is their core differentiator against Zillow…

Redfin’s CEO, Glenn Kelman, penned a post today, titled “Real Estate Brokers Can Coexist With National Portals by Changing the Way We Share Data” I wanted to call attention to this paragraph: Brokerage sites, including Redfin, should drive more traffic to listing brokers In the…

All three of the major portals – Zillow, Trulia, and Realtor.com – released new television ads today.  I have some thoughts related to the strategies behind them that I’ll share, but haven’t had time to write them up quite yet. In the meantime, have a looksie……

Spencer Rascoff is, of course, the co-founder of HotWire and current CEO of Zillow. He’s as big of an entrepreneur advocate as you’ll find, and shared a few words of inspiration for entrepreneurs last night at the GeekWire Awards ceremony. Here’s the video… [via GeekWire]

Zillow’s newest innovation, the Zestimate Forecast, was announced yesterday… I’m a big big fan of the strategy. Is the data perfect? Nope. Are the forecasts accurate? Who knows. But that doesn’t matter at the end of the day. This is yet another innovation to win the consumer….

Apparently Nationstar has big ambitions. Nationstar envisions that consumers and real estate agents who come to its site will be able to list their properties, manage them, sell them, buy them, and look for “downstream” mortgage, title, appraisal and closing services. and… Nationstar also said…

You may have seen the interview with Andrey Nokhrin earlier today. I had the chance to sit down with him last week in Pioneer Square and discuss the product/business he is working on, Flipt. Watch the following video for a summary: Here are my high level thinkings……

For those in Seattle, there is a new brokerage in town. Surefield, started by David Eraker, Aravind Kalaiah, and Rob McGarty. Rob and David were both early, early Redfin team members. The online 3D tour technology that is front and center is certainly slick. Buyer…