HouseCall just raised 1.5 M to continue their push into home services industry with an Uber-like platform. More information: http://tryhousecall.com/

Another big win for Zillow yesterday. They are now powering AOL Real Estate, ousting Move. AOL isn’t what it used to be, but they are still no slouch. Who’s next? MSN and CNNMoney? New York Times? There aren’t many major, major players left to partner with. Seems…

There was some bitcoin news today in the real estate vertical – RentHop is accepting them. But watch clip #6 from the conversation Semil Shah had with Keith Rabois at Khosla Ventures: The key statement: There is No Chance BitCoins Will be Successful in the…

Realtor.com shut down AgentMatch – There was literal outrage from the industry when it launched about a month ago. More on the shutdown here. Regardless of what agents think, I think some iteration of this will exist at some point in the future. Whether it’s Zillow, Trulia,…

Have you ever experienced a real estate vendor who has either made it extremely difficult or impossible to cancel their service? Or have you had a product that you canceled continue to bill you for services? Agents sign up for a new product or trial,…

HomeLight (discussed previously here) has some competition in Realtor.com’s new Agent Match. Their value proposition to sellers? Sell Your Home. Compare and connect with the best performing agents in your neighborhood. Northern Colorado (Boulder) and Las Vegas Valley are the two test markets for the service….

Since I used to work at Zillow, am a techie myself, and readers here are all techies — seems it’s fitting to let you know about Zillow Tech Connect, which was just announced today. What is it? The Zillow Tech Connect program allows technology companies to…

I wrote about Google Helpouts on my personal blog awhile ago was it was first announced. This is the future of search, for complex search topics…such as real estate. Helpouts launched officially today (official Google Blog). How much would you pay to talk via video chat…

Frankly, I don’t really know the first thing about real estate investing — which is why I don’t write about it here. But Joshua Dorkin certainly does; so much so that he’s turned it into a real business. We interviewed Josh a few months ago — so,…

Keller Williams has re-branded… A brand that stands behind our agents, not in front of them. I like the clean look of their new branding. KW is certainly doing something, including their recent app platform for agents. That said, branding isn’t pretty logos. It’s the values…