Archive for May, 2008
Friday, May 30th, 2008
The Google operating system for phones (Android) will change the way we search for real estate. Developers are already building some incredible applications for Android and below is one for street view on your phone.
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Google announced the top 50 applications for Android and there are some amazing things being built. ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | 3 Comments »
Monday, May 26th, 2008
To new offices that is. We have just completed a move to our new corporate HQs. Rent Marketer, Apartment Marketer and rentBits will be operated out of these new offices.
I took these photos with an iPhone so I apologize for the lack of light and quality. More photos to come....
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Posted in Rent Marketer | 9 Comments »
Thursday, May 22nd, 2008
Search is becoming much more vertical. Search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN do a horrendous job in vertical search. We are seeing many more vertical search engines hit the market. Sites like indeed.com, simplyhired.com, trulia.com, roost.com, rentbits.com and others. All of these sites are focusing on one thing and ...
Posted in RentBits, trulia | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
There have been some rumors that MyNewPlace may be rolling out a cost per lead (CPL) model in addition to their Cost Per Lease model. Sources tell us that MyNewPlace will be rolling this new pricing structure out on June 1st. The Cost Per Lease option will continue but ...
Posted in Apartment Marketer, Move, MyNewPlace | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 20th, 2008
ScanLife, an innovative company that takes virtually any camera phone and turns it into a scanner, has great potential for changing the way we shop for rentals and for sale properties. Currently, you can download the scanlife software on your phone, and the you can take pictures of anything that ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | 1 Comment »
Monday, May 19th, 2008
I just wrote about Google Health on my health blog, and I see some similarities with the organization of our own health documents and the organization of our own real estate documents.
For Google Health, Google wants to:
Organize your health information all in one place
Gather your medical records from doctors, hospitals, ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | No Comments »
Friday, May 16th, 2008
We just launched a new average rental pricing widget:
This widget allows users to view average rental prices for up to 4 cities in a majority of the cities in the US.
Posted in RentBits | No Comments »
Thursday, May 15th, 2008
On November 16, 2007, HouseValues acquired 32.4% of the outstanding voting stock of ActiveRain, the online real estate community, for $2.75 million. This gave ActiveRain an evaluation of around $8,500,000 or $100 per registered user.
ActiveRain currently has over 85,000 members on the site.
Posted in Active Rain | 2 Comments »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
Mark Cuban suggests.
How many websites would have to recuse themselves from the Google Index before Google Search was negatively impacted ?
Mahalo.com thinks it needs to support the 25k most common search terms in order to be successful. What would happen if MicroSoft or Yahoo or a MicroHoo went to ...
Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, May 14th, 2008
First off. What is Twitter? Twitter is a service for friends, family, and co–workers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: What are you doing?
I just started getting into twittering and to be honest I think it is stupid. I barely ...
Posted in zillow | 5 Comments »
Monday, May 12th, 2008
Rentals.com revenue was down 2.8% for Q1 of 2008 compared to Q1 of 2007.
For Primedia, rentals.com parent company, EBITA (Earnings Before Taxes Interest Depreciation and Amortization) was down 9.4% for the 1st quarter of 2008 compared to the first quarter of 2007
Fiscal 2008 ...
Posted in Rentals.com | 4 Comments »
Sunday, May 11th, 2008
CNNMoney just released their report of the 10 fastest growing real estate markets.
And here they are:
McAllen, Texas
12-month forecast: 4%
Median home price: $109,000
One year price change: 2.1%
Five year price change: 23.3%
Change in foreclosure rate: 23%
Rochester, N.Y.
12-month forecast: 2.7%
Median home price: $121,000
One year price change: 3.4%
Five year price change: 20.1%
Change in foreclosure ...
Posted in Real Estate Investing, Real Estate News | No Comments »
Friday, May 9th, 2008
We wanted to aggregate a list of the top 66 real estate services that we think every Real Estate Agent, Property Manager and Investor should know about. Why 66. We don't know but this list will continue to get larger with your help.
Our Methodology - We used resources from the ...
Posted in Real Estate Technology | 4 Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
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Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
AltSearchEngines has written a post on potential acquisitions for Microsoft. One of these potential acquisitions is Trulia.com. Sramana Mitra, the author of this post values Trulia at $150 - $200 million.
Trulia: Real Estate search engine Trulia can be a good trunk to build Microsoft a strong presence in the Real ...
Posted in Search Engines | 1 Comment »
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Krunching, a real estate investment tool site launched this week. Krunching analyzes investment properties and gives you information to help you make informed real estate investing decisions.
Their database seems robust but I did not find information on one address. When you type in an address and Zip Code for a ...
Posted in Real Estate Investing | No Comments »
Thursday, May 1st, 2008
Vaultware (Realty DataTrust Corporation) offers online leasing solutions for the multifamily housing industry that allow consumers to easily rent an apartment online.
Each month, VaultWare releases online apartment marketing trends and reports. There is a lot of great information in these reports as it relates to the apartment industry.
Below are some ...
Posted in Vaultware | 1 Comment »
