I often hear from readers that they love the geeky startup stuff (like this) I write from my own experience with Oh Hey World / Horizon. So here’s another one of those. I came across Kipo tonight via a posting inside a Facebook group I…

Some of you may have seen Open Listings, part of the current Y Combinator batch. The TechCrunch headline: YC-Backed Open Listings Enables Home Buyers To Purchase Houses Without Real Estate Agents Yeah, that’s not going to go over too well with the industry. But that’s…

[Disclosure: HomeZada is sponsoring Geek Estate this month, and this is a sponsored post. That said, HomeZada did not have any editorial say over this article; all opinions and words are my own.] I get pitched a lot of products. Many of them are just slightly…

Those that read this blog regularly know I’ve been working on a startup in the travel industry for quite awhile. In fact, the startup journey has included two completely separate travel apps (under same legal umbrella) – Horizon, and previously Oh Hey World. It’s been a long road,…

I came across Realtyps this weekend. It’s yelp for real estate properties. My hunch is it’s a reaction to Jason Calacanis’ RFP (request for prototype) for brutal real estate reviews. What do you think? Will enough buyers review properties to make it useful? I’d be…

For the entrepreneurs reading, note that NAR’s REach incubator is taking applications until March 15. <div id=”createpress” style=”text-align: center;”><a href=”https://angel.co/narreach-2015/apply”>Apply Now</a></div>

Those that have been reading this blog a long time may remember the post I wrote about the history of the home (all the way back in 2012). That’s more or less the opportunity HomeZada sees as well. They recently launched for consumers. I’ve spent some time…

Of all the challenges in emerging real estate markets, quality content may be the hardest. Without an MLS, brokers and agents have no protection on their listings, so they are hesitant to include specifics such as unit address in fear of their listings being stolen….

We don’t often cover international real estate startups – but there are a fair number of readers from abroad, so we probably should to a bit more of it. VivaReal recently raised a big round – a $41.7 Million series C round, led by Spark…

As many of you know, I’m currently down in Santiago going through Start-Up Chile building Horizon. Horizon is not a real estate startup. That said, there are a number of real estate startups that have gone through the incubator, some of the founders I’ve spoken…