This is somewhat old news now (announcement was July 1st), but I thought I’d briefly mention the fact that Zillow won the MSN deal that was opened up when Realtor.com decided to abandon the strategy of partnering with portals (which I covered here). A win…

Direct from Realtor.org (not .com) What does it mean to advertise a property as “coming soon”? The answer to that seemingly simple question varies among agents, brokers, MLSs, and state regulators nationwide. While the real estate industry has not agreed on a definition of “coming…

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.

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….

Via Rob Hahn… Denver Broncos, in other words, are becoming more like Seattle Seahawks. And I think they’re going to come back pissed off in 2015, and be very dangerous, playing with a chip on their shoulders. True, Move will be dangerous because they are…

Move/NAR filed a lawsuit against Zillow & Samuelson today. And then…Zillow named Curt Beardsley Vice President, Industry Development. For those who don’t know, Curt was just named as the successor to Errol Samuelson (whom Zillow just recruited). Not even sure what to say. Other than “WOW”….

A few links for you related to Errol’s recent move… Rob Hahn – In Which I Speak to Steve Berkowitz, CEO of Move, Inc. Greg Robertson – Errol Samuelson leaves for Zillow & Errol Errol Samuelson – I’m Joining Zillow. Here’s Why.