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,…

As a web developer, I have the fun of creating feeds for different agents to use as a means to get their listings onto some of the bigger listing web sites (Trulia, Zillow, formerly edgeio, Vast, etc.). All of these sites have different specifications as…

Last week, Techcrunch reported that Edgeio is shutting down. Edgeio was an online classifieds site that spanned housing, autos, jobs, merchandise, and jobs. The fact that they will be ceasing operations soon means there is now one less online destination where you can upload your…

Setting up an XML feed for your listings is a great way to get added exposure for your listings by syndicating them to a variety of real estate portals. Since I’m helping support the coming Zillow Listings Feed program, I’ve had conversations with agents, brokers,…

Postlets is certainly one of the companies you can utilize should you wish to syndicate your listings around the web. Asher Matsuda and Raymond Chen started Postlets about 2 years ago as a side project — and are still plugging away with development while continually…

I think it’s safe to say many local real estate markets are now buyers markets — NAR published a press release saying that, at the end of July, inventory of (existing) homes available for sale had reached 9.6 months of supply. For real estate agents,…