When it comes to real estate ad networks — Zillow has Yahoo! Real Estate & hundreds of newspapers. Trulia has CNNMoney. Realtor.com has MSN. Realtor.com just announced their deal with BlockShopper.com yesterday. I think, over the next 12-24 months, we will see a race between Zillow, Trulia, and Move (Realtor.com) to…

Shortly after Google announces they will be removing real estate listings from their maps, Zillow and Yahoo Real Estate’s long awaited partnership goes live today. Is this strictly a coincidence? Strategically this is a great move for Zillow, and will effect the real estate industry in…

This is just a hunch, but I believe the fact that NAR has allowed Realtor.com to aggregate MLS data & syndicate all their listings is a direct response to the Zillow deal with Yahoo! Real Estate. Zillow will be syndicating all their listings to Yahoo!…

“This is not my Locker” I know it is inevitable that I will be asked (perhaps 100’s of times) “What did you learn from Inman Connect SF this week”? or “What was the most interesting thing you learned at Inman Connect SF”? or some variation…

You’ve probably seen the news that Zillow is going to be the exclusive provider of listings to Yahoo! Real Estate, as well as be the exclusive seller of ads to agents and brokers for inventory on YRE. What is the significance of the number 2…

Steve Schultz at Yahoo! Real Estate announced a website redesign yesterday on their corporate blog. The two big things to note are the large listing photos on their search pages, which are 4x larger than the previous version of YRE!, and the neighborhood profile videos…

With all the video hosting sites available on the Internet today, and many of them for FREE, which one is the best site to be hosting your “Real Estate Videos?” That’s simple. Youtube right? Why not Google or Yahoo? I have been looking into many…

All along, I had a feeling this would happen. Just like an unreasonable seller in a declining real estate market, Yahoo rebuffed the advances of a ready and willing buyer (Microsoft) numerous times. Reason? The offer presented by Mr Softee “shortchanged” Yahoo’s past stock value…

Yesterday on my personal blog I wrote of the concept of going “Viral” as it pertained to a recent segment I was featured in on a local news program regarding how the Internet is effecting Real Estate in the California Central Valley. Well that clip…

For those of you who actually read The Coaches Blogs (thanks to both of you BTW), you remember my post on March 10th stating a new relationship with Trulia.com. Well it’s official now as witnessed by this Yahoo post. What does this mean for Prudential Realtors…