Recently someone contacted me and inquired about pulling comparable sales info from Zillow, Trulia, Eppraisal, Yahoo and Cyberhomes. He also wanted to sort the details before storing it in excel for further analysis. If it works well, he wanted to package it and sell to…

I’m really happy to say that the version 3 beta of the Local Market Explorer WordPress plugin is finally available for everyone to try out. For those who don’t know what Local Market Explorer is, it’s a way to embed local area info from Zillow,…

The final release of version 2 of the Local Market Explorer WordPress Plugin is still a week or so away, but for the adventurous, we’re making available a beta version to try out. I feel pretty confident that there aren’t major bugs though, so you…

If you’re interested in learning more about the Onboard Listings API I mentioned on Geek Estate in January (and again in March), there are two recent posts from the Onboard Blog worth reading: General Update Listings API FAQ They’ve announced two early partners – ListingPress…

Today’s post is my first contribution to the Geek Estate Blog, but before I dive into the details of today’s post, I wanted to take a quick second to do an intro about my background in the online world. My name is Matthew Swanson and…

There was a list of the Top Twenty Open APIs and Mashup Resources for Web Developers (which i Tweeted about yesterday) published two days ago that the web developers reading this blog might find useful. Not all the APIs mentioned are specific to real estate; in…

If you are an agent, broker, or web developer in the New York City real estate market — there is a new real estate API from the New York Times that you may want to check out. Here are the four specific API calls that…

The folks at Onboard have been busy — they just released version 0.9 of their Lifestyle Listings Engine API that I wrote about back in January. Looks like lots of cool features were added, including the ability to search based on school performance, distance to…

The last time I posted on Geek Estate, I wrote about how to use the Trulia API from a PHP page. Since watching mortgage rates fall is a lot more fun than watching home prices fall, I decided to implement a simple widget that uses…

I think there’s a strong case to be made that help figuring out how to get from point A to point B is something that home buyers would appreciate during their home selection process. It’s likely some buyers wonder how to get to their current…