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ActiveRain to Start Charging for Access to Consumers

Monday, February 16th, 2009

ActiveRain, the very popular real estate social network, has decided to charge a monthly membership fee for all new members looking to reach consumers. This membership fee will be $29 per month and will give real estate professionals the ability to connect with consumers.All previous ActiveRain members will continue to have the ...

Timu Sports - The ActiveRain for Sports?

Tuesday, February 10th, 2009

Matt Heaton, the co-founder of ActiveRain, an online community for real estate professionals, left the company in August of 2008 to start a new venture call Timu Sports. The site is anticipated to launch early this year. Could this be the ActiveRain for Sport Fans?

ActiveRain Valued at $8.5 Million

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.

Mary McKnight (rebloggirl) Says Unpopular Things

Sunday, March 16th, 2008

Mary McKnight, the owner of RSS Pieces, a Harvard Grad, an amateur fitness/bodybuilding competitor and an active real estate blogger knows how to get attention. I ran across her blog and company after I read her post entitled Things Losers Say: SEO doesn't matter Mary is not afraid to say what is ...

Active Rain Gets $2.75 Million in Funding

Monday, January 21st, 2008

Active Rain, the popular social network for real estate professionals, received $2.75 million from realtor lead generator HouseValues.com. HouseValues.com stock price (SOLD) is down 43.44% for the year. Zillow.com has taken a majority of the market share from HouseValues by offering home evaluations for free. HouseValues.com has minority ownership in Activerain. HouseValues.com's ...