Okay, the title is a bit dramatic. You would die without air, but you’ll live through not having IDX. Your business may not though. We’ve all seen the statistics many times. More than 80% of those in the real estate market use the internet to…

Diverse Solutions released a major upgrade this week to their IDX product — here’s a list of some of the new features: Search by school district Search by price drops Ability to search bank owned, short sale, and foreclosure listings Ability to search FSBO listings…

I know there are two sides to the debate as to whether or not agents and brokers should require registration in order to browse listings on your web site (Geek Estate coverage from February). The reason I am bringing it up again is that I…

I read some stuff the other day about how the talented crew over at Estately recently launched into the Portland, OR market, and one of the stupid MLS rules (my opinion) they had to face triggered some memories of frustrations I had faced when I…

At the time of this writing, Apple is holding a press release to announce their API for the iPhone; you can check out the live feed here. They’ve announced a lot of really incredible stuff so far, but the part that I was most intrigued…

There are many real estate technology vendors that build agent websites, with Real Estate Webmasters (REW) being one of the companies in the mix. If you’ve heard about REW before, chances are you’ve also heard about their superb ability to optimize their websites for search…

Working with agents in the Portland, OR area, I run into many different contact management systems, but keep running into Top Producer. Just about every agent using this system is using version 7i, and with it’s quirks and annoyances, it seems to be doing a…

A real estate website lacking a property search tool is not only non-competitive, but in this day and age, it can be safely called obsolete. Assuming you are a Realtor who sees the importance of keeping up-to-date technologically, the next question is: where to start?…