The average person spends 46 minutes on a typical day commuting.  That’s almost 200 hours a year in the car.  So when home buyers  ask about how long it takes to get to work, it’s an important buying factor and you need a good answer….

We’re already seeing a slight trend of some agents and brokers not believing IDX is vital. With the continued rise of mobile, will the next trend be the demise of agent and/or brokerage websites? Before you go blast me for making such a ludicrous statement…

The use of mobile devices and of smart phones in particular is leading many industries to devote more of their marketing focus to be more mobile centric. There are currently nearly 323 million mobile subscriptions in the United States which represents over 102 percent of…

Realtor.com released their new agent-branded mobile real estate app on the Apple iPhone and iPad this week (Android can’t be far off).  With their previous version of the mobile app already being the most accurate nationwide real estate app (direct MLS listing data) and having…

You’ve got one day left to win a 30 gigabyte SugarSync account — just sign up to receive email updates from Geek Estate. That’s all there is to it. 3 random winners will be drawn tomorrow, September 15th, 2011. Enter for your chance to win…

A gentle reminder that you have ONLY 8 days left to qualify for the 30 gigabyte SugarSync giveaway we’re running right now. Each free account is valued at $49.99 over the course of the next 12 months. Not convinced of the value? Here are a…

We have a giveaway for 3 lucky Geek Estate Readers — a FREE 30 Gigabyte SugarSync account. For those of you who aren’t familiar with SugarSync, it’s your personal cloud to back up all your music, photos, documents, and videos across all your various devices….

Mobile marketing for real estate is so in your face right now that it can’t be ignored any longer. The options available for you to create and tailor your mobile application are so plentiful that you could literally have one ready within an hour of…

Here’s a tweet by Brian Dittmer that I wanted to extend to the Geek Estate audience for further feedback: what features would your ultimate #realestate app have? #retechchat What do you think? What is the killer real estate app and what features does it need…

It seems everywhere I go people are talking about QR codes. When it comes to QR codes, where is the data that supports the hype? Here’s a comment by Chris Dowell on the Mobile Marketing post which is quite telling if you ask me: I have…