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Lake Front Real Estate Search Made Simple

Tuesday, April 7th, 2009

Many of my friends ask me how they can find lake front property. Unfortunately, there are not many sites out there that offer this type of functionality.However, a new site called LakeFrog is designed to just offer lake front properties thoughout the United States.  The site covers over 5,000 lakes in the ...

New Vacation Rental Search Engine Launches

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009

Otalo, a vacation rental search engine has launched with over 200,000 listings in the data base.  The service is fast and robust. It monetizes the search by reveiving a referral fee from the sites it sends traffic to.   What does the name mean?Otalo is a Zen symbol and Talo means 'house' ...

HomeAway Raises $250 Million on a Pre Money Valuation of $1.15 Billion

Tuesday, November 11th, 2008

HomeAway, the aggregator of vacation rental sites has raised $250 million on a monster $1.15 billion dollar pre money valuation. They previously raised $209 million over two rounds which puts their total raised to $459 million.TechCrunch writes:The pre-money valuation was around $1.15 billion, say a couple of sources, and at least ...

VacationRoost.com Launches Vacation Rental Site

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Vacation rentals are a mutli-billion dollar opportunity. Vacation Roost recently launched to acquire some of this market share. VacationRoost.com has over 100,000 vacation rental properties and was formed by consolidating three vacation rental companies: Mountain Reservations - one of the first vacation rental Web sites that marketed properties exclusively in the Intermountain West; Rooster.com ...