Everyone in the world is dissecting the potential merger of Microsoft and Yahoo. Joel opines on the impact to real estate search. I haven’t been overly impressed with either company when it comes to the real estate vertical and it’s anyone’s guess whether it will…

Though you might have seen Zilpy’s BETA site sometime over the past month (they’ve been writing on an AR blog the past couple weeks), Zilpy “officially” launched today with a press release. According to their site, Zilpy is a free online rental market facts and…

Roost.com launched this morning at midnight Pacific time. (Full press release is below) Not unexpectedly, those champions of getting the news out to the RE.net — Joel, Dustin and Greg — have already summarized well the features of Roost. Go forth and read their favorable reviews. I…

The data geeks over at Zillow Labs are sharing some of their work via a Creative Commons License. It is represents the neighborhood boundaries of over 7,000 locations in major markets across the U.S. What’s cool is the fact that you can make additions and…

I’m not involved in real estate investing and haven’t really spent much time on the new BiggerPockets site, but here is a good review by Scott Ficek at Minnesota Investment Real Estate.

A few weeks ago Michael Wurzer of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO) posted an open letter to the Yahoo!, Google, Zillow, and Trulia (David Harris touched on this here on GeekEstate too) requesting that we adopt and contribute to the RETS 2.0 standard. From…

Don’t worry that GeekEstate is turning into some sort of logo reporting blog (see previous post — New Inman Logo — if that makes no sense). Last night Zillow.com pre-released some news to a few bloggers attended Inman Connect NYC that they were rolling out…

Inman is planning to launch a completely new website in the next month or so — here’s the new logo they unveiled today at the conference (which I think is a nice improvement). I’m looking forward to the launch of the new site, which will…

As part of the newly elected Board of Directors of the Real Estate Standards Organization (RESO), I have accepted the challenge along with the other 9 Board members to construct a real estate data standard that can be beneficial for all parties involved: Agents, Brokers,…

A picture may be worth a thousand words to you and I but an image is meaningless to search engines until you describe it to them. In this simple video, Matt Cutts from google explains how to use the alt tag to ensure that search…