Knock CEO Sean Black said ‘We’re building the next Amazon’ and plans to go public. They recently entered Texas, opening in Dallas and Fort Worth, with a goal of being in 20+ markets by 2020. Their vision is an end-to-end transaction platform, the railroad of real…

There’s a real estate tech company based in my hometown Seattle that I’m a longtime fan of. No, I’m not referring to that industry tech titan I formerly worked for. Nor am I referring to a certain billion dollar tech-enabled brokerage, with a red logo….

I wrote a post back in May of 2014 about using pocket listings to shift the balance of power away from the MLS. In it, I said this: Everyone trying the pocket listings strategy now, such as @Properties, is doing it between agents. I think a…

Businesses avoid innovation from fear of not understanding how to effectively manage the unknown. The leaders of these organizations see the value of being innovative, but are disincentivized by the uncertainty and by their lack of expertise and commitments in time and resources to make…

[Note from editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] We recently published a real estate market map, which includes hundreds of technology companies that are transforming how residential real estate is bought and sold. Today, we’re following that post up with a new market map focused on commercial real estate (the map is…

[Editor’s Note: RealSavvy is a strategic sponsor for Geek Estate Blog, and this is a sponsored post. The company was first covered on Geek Estate Blog back in 2016. Since then, I’ve gotten to know their CEO Rick Orr quite well (he’s a Geek Estate…

[Note from the Editor: This is a sample Geek Estate Mastermind Newsletter (#37), which was published for Mastermind members last week. It’s the second newsletter we’re publishing publicly on the blog, the first was the analysis of Knock a few months ago. We’re making this…

[Note from editor: Originally published on Thomvest’s Blog] Residential real estate has proven to be a strong driver of economic growth and individual wealth, representing more than 15% of our nation’s GDP. The combined value of housing in the United States reached a record-high $31.8 trillion in 2017,…

I’ve written about category kings before: it’s what every startup should be striving for. There’s one unquestioned “Category King” in real estate. Among real estate portals (in the US), the clear, runaway king is Zillow Group. There will be “Category Kings” of various segments of the…

About a decade ago, I was having a conversation with a luxury broker out of Malibu, when he said something that I’ve never been able to get out of my head: “I hate my website leads” He went on to tell me that just about…