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Weblogs co-founder Jason Calacanis ready to fund ‘brutal real estate reviews’
Self-described serial entrepreneur and angel investor Jason Calacanis says he’s ready to put $25,000 to $100,000 of his own money into a startup that will publish “brutal real estate reviews” to help protect homebuyers from making bad decisions. After tweeting ...
App offers identity verification to make ‘showings on demand’ safer
Amid concern over the potential safety risks of “showings on demand,” the mobile app Curb Call is now offering an add-on feature to broker subscribers that will verify the identity of consumers who request showings through the app. Curb Call ...
Meet the people behind the startups that are changing the game
Meet the people behind the startups that are changing the real estate game: Rami Essaid, co-founder and CEO, distil networks; Blake Andrews, founder, Giveback Homes; Tom Horvath, co-Founder and CEO, Tumlis; Joshua Lopour, co-founder, Retsly; AdaPia d'Errico, chief marketing officer, Patch of...
With help from Realogy, gay and le***an real estate pros set to meet in Florida
Realogy's Coldwell Banker Real Estate, Century 21 Real Estate and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate brands will sponsor the first ever national convention of the National Association of Gay and Le***an Real Estate Professionals to be held Oct. 14-16 in Fort Lauderdale, Florida ...
Annie Leibovitz gives The Corcoran Group’s latest ad campaign a high-gloss sheen
For the latest iteration of The Corcoran Group‘s “Live Who You Are” marketing campaign, renowned portrait photographer Annie Leibovitz photographed 12 notable residents and their homes in the four markets the New York City-based brokerage serves in New York and Florida. Leibovitz, who is known...
Real estate power couple, 3 children, killed in private plane crash
Prominent real estate lawyer Oliver E. Frascona died Sunday in a plane crash that also killed real estate educator Tori Rains-Wedan and her three children. Frascona, 67, was a senior shareholder at Boulder, Colorado-based law firm Frascona, Joiner, Goodman and Greenstein P.C. ...
5 steps to gear up for the fall selling season
The kids are back to school and the fall selling season is upon us. What can you do to take advantage of this great time of year before winter sends seasonal chills through the real estate market ...
100,000 agents to get ‘single sign-on’ access to NAR programs
Imagine a dashboard where agents can access their multiple listing service, the third-party products they’ve purchased, resources from their local association and tools from the National Association of Realtors — all with a single logon. In what has been dubbed the “NAR Portlet ...
CRM provider Contactually signs large Southern California brokerage
Customer relationship management provider Contactually has signed up Southern California’s First Team Real Estate, giving the firm’s more than 1,600 agents free access to the tool. It’s Contactually’s biggest enterprise-level contract to date. First Team Real Estate’s 18 offices span the Los...
How to walk your clients through listings even when they can’t be there in person
Some real estate agents share live video of properties from their mobile devices to help faraway clients virtually scope out homes. But what if you could expand those private showings into virtual open houses? That’s one service that video-sharing app ReaLync ...
Why homes in Costa Rica, Belize and Mexico are showing up in Chicago’s MLS
Recognizing that its member agents and brokers are not only selling to international buyers but representing listings in other countries, one of the nation’s biggest multiple listing services has streamlined the process for its members to enter, search for, and ...
Listing portal Zameen.com seizes the day as 3G comes to Pakistan
The Pakistani listing portal Zameen.com has rolled out a listing search app for the iPhone. That wouldn’t be an earth-shattering achievement for a U.S. listing site, but it’s kind of a big deal in Pakistan. The country just auctioned off rights to build 3G and 4G networks to ...
App lets you turn your listing photos into narrated slideshows in minutes
Some real estate agents are finding the narrated slideshows they create with SpeakingPhoto are an attractive marketing alternative to listing videos, or that they complement them. SpeakingPhoto lets you add voiceovers to photos and combine them into a slideshow of up to eight photos that can be...
Surprise: There’s serious support for agent matching services
Realtor.com’s experiment with AgentMatch may have been short-lived, but a majority of Inman News readers say they approve of services that match agents with consumers based on sales data. Nearly 6 in 10 Inman News readers (57 percent) responding to ...
Portal hacks: how to get your money’s worth out of online leads
The big real estate search sites -- Zillow, Trulia, realtor.com and homes.com -- attract tens of millions of visitors every month, and real estate brokers and agents are paying big dollars for the leads the portals generate. Some who know the game best share the tips, tricks and power plays that...
Zillow hires 2 more industry vets to woo MLSs, Realtor associations
Zillow has added two more real estate industry vets to its industry development team to help bolster its relationships with multiple listing services and Realtor associations around the U.S. Both Steve Allen and Chris Kiel now serve as directors of MLS and industry development ...
NAR-backed agent ratings pilot program in California, Illinois, Florida fizzles
An agent ratings pilot program backed by the National Association of Realtors has ended without being renewed after reportedly low adoption rates by agents and lack of support for the program at the national level. In August 2012, survey-based agent rating ...
Instagram’s ‘Hyperlapse’ app could revolutionalize real estate video
Instagram's time-lapse video app, "Hyperlapse," could be a valuable asset for real estate agents by giving them the ability to make high-quality property tours and neighborhood videos on the fly. The free app's image-stabilization technology helps users make smooth and steady time-lapse videos --...
Zephyr, a San Francisco real estate brokerage, found a crafty way to milk mobile for leads
Screen shot showing Neighbrhds app for Pacific Heights in San Francisco. San Francisco-based brokerage Zephyr may have found a crafty way to tap mobile for leads. Listing search apps are a dime a dozen these days, so brokers can find it ...
Google finds 2 out of 3 house hunters research agents online
Real estate agents have a better chance of pitching themselves to potential clients in person if they’re easy to find online, data from search giant Google shows. Half of prospective homebuyers get serious about looking for a home 6 to ...
Buying and selling homes could soon be as easy as trading stocks
HomeUnion wants to level the playing field for smaller investors, helping them compete with institutional giants to identify bargain-priced single-family rental properties in markets around the country, and then buy and manage them from afar. Institutional investors try to make ...
ReferralExchange paying for your real estate leads
ReferralExchange, a new referral site for real estate professionals, wants your extra leads — and it’s willing to pay you every time another agent is able to close on one. The company will take your excess leads, “scrub” them with ...
12 startups that are changing the way we interact with real estate
Are you ready for a glimpse into the future of real estate? Real Estate Connect's “New Kids on the Block” session and an eye-opening Agent Reboot session called “9 technologies that will change the real estate landscape forever” provided a preview of coming attractions that may dramatically...
Buyers are driving cameras through homes on the other side of the world
New technology is taking virtual tours a step further by letting buyers drive cameras mounted on remote-controlled vehicles through distant homes, venturing from room to room, peeking around corners and taking in near-360-degree views from multiple vantage points. San Francisco-based ...
It’s time to tell agents they can no longer meet with complete strangers in empty houses
This past weekend, an agent in my local market was holding a new construction home open when two men arrived, said they worked for the builder and were there to pick up materials. As they loaded their truck, she became ...
Incompetence seems to be the rule rather than the exception
Most of the stress in my life these days is caused by people who don’t do their jobs and by companies that make promises they can’t keep. Someone was supposed to be taking care of my parents but they are ...
Giveback Homes helps charity-minded real estate pros stand out from the crowd
Doing charity work in the Central American country of Nicaragua in 2011, Blake Andrews was touched by how much the shoes he placed on a little girl’s feet meant to her. The thought hit him then: If shoes can do ...
Realtor.com should be ‘Match.com’ for real estate agents
You might think from what you’ve read about it that the Zillow-Trulia merger is going to be like the resurrection of Godzilla. “Run for your lives — Godzulia is coming,” many are warning realtor.com. “Muah!” But the impending merger does ...
Hubba, hubba! Say hello to the latest ‘Tinder for real estate’
Oh, mercy! How ’bout the interface on that app?! Estately’s Flip lets you sift through homes by swiping listing photos. Estately has launched “Flip,” a feature part of its iPhone app that lets users w**d out listing search results by swiping photos on their touch screens, ...
All Redfin listings to feature 3-D virtual tours
Redfin will be rolling out 3-D virtual tours for all of its listings with the help of tech firm Matterport. Today, the “Redfin 3D Walkthrough” tours are included on all 28 active listings the tech-focused brokerage has in its hometown of Seattle. In the coming months, Redfin will leverage ...
HomeSearch.com weeks away from relaunch with ‘huge inventory’ of MLS listings
With industry veteran Russ Bergeron aboard as vice president of licensing and compliance at Real Estate Digital, HomeSearch.com is weeks away from relaunch with a “a huge inventory” of MLS listings. Bergeron, former president and CEO of Midwest Real Estate ...
Real estate embraces ALS ‘ice bucket challenge’
Zillow CEO Spencer Rascoff has poured ice-cold water over his head and screamed. So has Trulia’s top exec, Pete Flint and Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate’s CEO Sherry Chris. They are among the flood of individuals participating in social media’s ...
Legal spat over sale of mansion could greatly expand definition of ‘dual agency’ in California
A dispute over the sale of a $12.25 million mansion that allegedly turned out to be smaller than advertised could end up greatly expanding the definition of what constitutes “dual agency” in California, and make brokerages more skittish about having ...
Black Knight’s Paragon MLS platform gains steam
Real estate data and technology firm Black Knight Financial Services has signed another multiple listing service to its Paragon 5 platform, bringing the number of real estate professionals the platform serves to more than 210,000. Paragon 5 received top marks in a ...
San Diego’s Real Living Lifestyles joins RealtyTrac’s brokerage network
Real Living Lifestyles Real Estate has joined RealtyTrac’s broker network as an exclusive member in San Diego, which gives its 250 agents access to data and leads from the foreclosure marketplace. As a member of the network, Real Living Lifestyles also has the ...
US News & World Report launches agent matching tool
U.S. News & World Report has launched a consumer portal in partnership with agent matching site Agent Ace to help consumers pinpoint the best real estate agent suited to their needs, Agent Ace announced today. “We already provide tools to help ...
Why so many consumers start with Redfin
Redfin may not be the nation's biggest brokerage (yet). But it operates what's by far the most popular real estate brokerage or franchise website. Why do so many consumers start with Redfin? CEO Glenn Kelman explains ...
Real estate industry says let Zillow have its way with Trulia
Inman News readers are not an interventionist bunch, with nearly 8 in 10 saying antitrust regulators should just stay the heck out of the way of Zillow's plan to acquire Trulia ...
ForRent.com rolls out neighborhood, school search filters
ForRent.com now lets users hunt for apartments by individual school attendance zones or neighborhood. Users see a list of neighborhoods and schools on the left hand side of the search results page. After performing a search by city, state or ...
Why a prominent indie brokerage is affiliating with a powerhouse franchise brand
A Cary, North Carolina-based brokerage, Go Realty, that made a name for itself as an innovative independent firm has joined the Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate’s real estate franchise network. The decision might look like the 5-year-old firm sold out, said Zach ...
Century 21 China Real Estate closes more offices to stem losses
Century 21 China Real Estate today reported a second-quarter net loss of $6.6 million as revenue fell 9.1 percent from the first quarter and 42 percent from a year ago, to $19.8 million. “Market conditions were more challenging than we ...
Real estate industry wary of Redfin’s proposed changes to listing syndication, IDX display rules
Inman News readers are skeptical about changes proposed by Redfin in the way listings are distributed to and displayed on websites that consumers use to search for homes. Should the real estate industry adopt the listing syndication and IDX policies ...
How to make your brand relevant to consumers
What brands do consumers really care about? How do you make your brand relevant? Some real estate heavy hitters with some major league brands — Gary Gold of Hilton & Hyland, Charles Moore of McGuire Real Estate, Bev Thorne of ...
Those .realtor domains you’ve been hearing about for years will launch by Halloween
Starting Oct. 23, more than 1 million Realtors will be able to sign up for Web addresses with the new .realtor top-level domain, the National Association of Realtors and the Canadian Real Estate Association announced today. After a yearslong application process, ...
Zillow says it doesn’t plan to raise prices
SAN FRANCISCO — What does the pending merger between real estate’s most popular real estate sites, Zillow and Trulia, mean for a huge real estate brand like Re/Max? Re/Max LLC co-founder and CEO Dave Liniger had the opportunity to grill Zillow ...
NAR said to ask regulators to stop Zillow’s acquisition of Trulia
The National Association of Realtors reportedly wants federal antitrust regulators to block Zillow’s planned acquisition of Trulia, but there are no signs that the Federal Trade Commission plans to intervene. Zillow and Trulia — the two biggest real estate search ...
Homebuyers researching schools most interested in elementary schools
Homebuyers researching schools on realtor.com are zeroing in on elementary schools – indicating that the “majority of people who research schools either have young children or expect to start a family when they buy their next home.” That’s according to ...
Matt Beall, principal broker at Hawaii Life, shares 10 things real estate can learn from surfing
In surfing, there are many times you won’t have your board. Realtors spend so much time obsessing over their tools they often forget that they still need to know how to “swim” (do the deal) independently of their tools ...
What ‘real time meets the real world’ means for real estate
If you can’t be a Google executive, you can still enjoy “locally sourced seasonal meals … crafted with care by former Google executive chef Nate Keller” if you live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have the Sprig app ...
Why MLSs will soon be a lot more friendly to brokers
Metropolitan Regional Information Systems Inc. (MRIS) has become the first multiple listing service to be certified by the Real Estate Standards Organization, a nonprofit that aims to foster software innovation and improve efficiency in real estate transactions through data standardization. In ...
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