My reentry into the world of work this week was harsh. Two night flights, back-to-back meetings and enough Diet Coke to kill a lab rat. So this is going to be on the short and kinda fuzzy side. … Amazon has purchased the domain casa.com. Remember, this time, when they come for the listings, hide [...]
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Trulia plays games with new iPhone app for agents
Trulia has released an iPhone app for agents. It’s pretty simple, really. Agents can check-in to properties, receive push notifications for new leads from Trulia, organize contacts and search for property. It’s a good idea. Agents are Trulia’s customers, after all, so why wouldn’t they want to engage them in this way? But what is most [...]
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Market Leader buys Realestate.com and other bursts of online real estate energy
Market Leader has acquired the realestate.com domain from IAC spin-off Tree.com. This, I think, is a good move in the context of their stated objective – a “click to close” software platform. The realestate.com domain is like one of those 18 year-old minor league phenoms who for whatever reason – injuries, attitude, bad luck – [...]
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Trulia launches home value estimates
Trulia has jumped into the home value game. Here’s the deal: The feature is called “Trulia Estimates” (Testimates doesn’t really work, does it?). Estimates are available only in the SF Bay Area for now, but the plan is to expand nationally. Initially, estimates are available only on sold properties, but actives will be included in [...]
3 things you should be considering for your brokerage website (but maybe aren’t)
A bit of a grab bag in this post, as a swirl of events over the past couple weeks have gotten me thinking about the standard approach to a real estate website. Click-to-call catching on Trulia launched Instant Leads this week, powered through a partnership with Twilio. The service connects potential buyers inquiring about a [...]
Friday Flash: Trulia, Frontdoor, mind control and Zuckerberg
It’s been a bleary week of planes, presentations and Excedrin, but I did manage to hang onto a few things… … It feels to me like Trulia is executing really well these days. This week, they announced the upcoming release of crime maps for 50 major metros – a play made possible by their acquisition [...]
The clinical guide to real estate listings syndication
I have plenty of opinions about the syndication of real estate listings. In fact, I view the whole syndication scene as something like a beach strewn with syringes and empty Pringles cans over which waves of opportunism and resentment crash. But when it comes down to working with a broker client to decide whether to [...]
Trulia releases an iPad app: food for the brain, if not for the soul
Trulia has released an iPad app. It went live in the App Store this morning. This is the third notable real estate app to be released to date, Zillow and ZipRealty being the other two (and, yes, I know Coldwell Banker released one this week). The company also released an Andriod app (that will have to [...]
Trulia CEO Flint takes aim at Zillow
Could a two-horse race be turning into a three-horse race? Trulia co-founder Pete Flint is certainly thinks so. In an interview yesterday with Seattle-based journalist John Cook, he wastes little time taking rival portal Zillow to task. Some of the juicer quotes:
Friday Flash: RE/MAX syndicates, agents get over-rated, a new player in e-sigs
In case you missed the Redfin news, you can read about it here. If not, it’s on we go… … The California Association of Realtors announced that it is supporting an agent ratings pilot program administered by MLSlistings.com, the large Norcal MLS, and Quality Service Certification, Inc. Agents can opt-out, which severely limits this initiative’s [...]
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