RealTown just uploaded its look, bringing much more of the site’s community features front and center. The new design positions it to compete more directly against ActiveRain, who seems to be the behemoth in terms of online real estate communities at the moment. It’ll be interesting to see whether the new design...
Heads up from the blog 360 Digest – Craigslist in the Seattle-Tacoma area is now requiring brokers to register to post properties to the site. Currently, NY is the only Craigslist in the country with a fee to post properties – $10 for reposting a brokered housing posts. Some are concerned the Seattle registration...
A release from Coldwell Banker today announced the company started formatting its search results for use on the iPhone. Michael Fischer, senior vice president of marketing for Coldwell Banker Real Estate, said in a statement that the new features recognize that society is increasingly mobile, “moving away from the...
In case you missed their article last week, Trulia gave some good information for agents looking to reach international buyers via the Trulia platform. There was some interesting information – according to their survey, international buyers are most often looking for property in these states: International buyers...
According to a press release put out today, Realtor.com is still the top site for consumers looking for real estate information. The release cites comScore Media Metrics as the source, which is reputable. From the release: “The comScore data continues to demonstrate our position as the leader and industry standard...
Saw this in my news alerts this morning: A recent survey conducted jointly by VHT, Inc., and PropertyPreviews.com highlights the impact that videos and professional photography have on the perceived value of a property. According to the survey results, the use of a video in marketing a property increases the perceived...
Many real estate agents still have a fair degree of trepidation when it comes to using social media online. Getting started seems like it’s the hardest part. PC World and CIO.com just published a good interview with analyst Jonathan Yarmis on how businesses should approach social media online – I like this...
For agents who are already doing a lot of blogging online, there’s a cool application that gives you the ability to assign a physical location to an indivdual post and place it on a map. Outside.In is giving free access to their StoryMaps application, which makes it easy to chart and embed a map of your blog posts. ...
Interesting article published today in the New York Sun about StreetEasy, a site for buyers looking to move into Manhattan apartments. The site scrapes apartment listings from around the Web and consolidates them into a single site, a move that initially ticked brokers off. Sound familiar? From the article: Although...
Good article over at the Transparent Real Estate blog that does a good job explaining why Realtors in particular have taken to social networking online. While there are certainly still agents trying to figure the Internet out, the thousands who are online have made sites like ActiveRain, Inman and RealTown into some of...