It would be difficult to find a real estate professional who doesn’t understand the value of a website, and the need to have some type of MLS search displayed on it. Yet, a great many of them also complain that they get few or no…

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…

Anyone who has designed a website or blog knows how tedious it can be to make sure it is cross browser compatible. You have to test in Internet Explorer 6, 7 and now 8. You have to test in Firefox, Safari, and the list goes…

About a month ago, I shared some thoughts from Seth Siegler regarding the website redesign project he was undertaking. In that post, I said that anyone working on a  redesign or planning to in the near future willing to share their thoughts could e-mail me…

…you can win $500 for writing about it! Onboard Informatics announced the Lifestyle Search Essay Contest earlier this week. The topic? Imagine the real estate search of the future and tell us about it. The winner gets a $500 American Express giftcard, so what do…

I do too!! Unfortunately I can’t participate in the little promotion Zoltan at RealBird has put together, so I thought I’d share it with all of you. The prerequisites are: Be a real estate agent/broker – residential or commercial Be the listing agent/broker of the…

The Internet is changing the way that Realtors do business and market themselves to such an extent that some will just not be around in a few short years. Survival of the fittest is the way of the world, and the fittest in real estate…

Onboard announced their new Lifestyle Listings Engine yesterday — you can see the overview here. Onboard’s Lifestyle Listings Engine provides the first Human Centered Search (HCS) experience in real estate. Our flexible Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) combine technology and data in an easy-to-implement package that…

I had the chance to send Myron Lo, ZipRealty’s Director of Product Strategy, a few questions to learn more about the thought process behind their latest release adding Realius community estimating technology to their listing detail pages. Below are my questions and his responses: Q:…

It looks like ZipRealty is the brokerage that will bring community estimating to the general public. ZipRealty has always been one of the most progressive brokerages, so the fact that they are the first brokerage to add community estimating technology to their web site is…