4realz.net

..brings out a who’s who of online real estate companies.  Don’t miss out on the comments!

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…the folks I talked with at RE  Connect were pretty underwhelmed.

BHG Real Estate

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… CribQ’s rental search with their own data.

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…the most innovative web services award for Estately!

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A few weeks ago I moved the Rain City Guide servers over to new servers.  Starting a few days before I moved the site over, I noticed a drop in the amount of traffic that coming to RCG as measured by Google Analytics:

The fact that it started a few days beforehand didn’t really surprise me [...]

…links are where it’s at.”

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Galen makes his first move since his new found riches…  Congrats to the Estately team.

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All the talk about Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google reminded me that I hadn’t checked to see if Microsoft has made any improvement to their search results in quite a while…
I know one term doesn’t make a rule, but I’ve found the term [Seattle Real Estate Blog] to be great for testing out the search engines [...]

Long-time Rain City Guide contributor, Galen Ward, announced that Estately just got $450K in angel funding!  Congrats Galen!
The Estately team is used to operating on a shoe-string budget, so it will be interesting to see what they accomplishes with this money!

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…the international buyer.
I talked to the CEO of Properazzi (Yannick Laclau) the other day and mentioned my concern that they were entering a highly competitive space (and it appeared to me) without a plan to get comprehensive listings.   His response was that, at least initially, they would be appealing to a very international audience who [...]

They‘ve accomplished an impressive amount in only 11 months.

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This interview by Global Property exchange with Simon Baker, who just so happens to be the CEO of News Corporation-owned REA Group, features a few choice quotes about web2.0 start-ups in the real estate space. Here are the two comments that stuck out for me:
“You don’t have to look sexy to deliver.”
“Sites like Zillow.com get [...]

…HAR’s success in building up a consumer-destination site for Houston real estate listing information. The presentation (*.pdf) is well worth a read and Chris McKeever of NAR’s CRT does a great job summarizing the highlights…
But the slide that stuck out the most for me was HAR’s local market share:

It goes without saying that 57% [...]

It started with the real estate coach and spread to Joel before hitting 4realz. And it all seems so believably that no one is really doubting the story.
However, I think it is worth nothing that there’s a bit of confusion over the total number of listings that Prudential would be giving Trulia… and [...]

I think I’ve recovered enough now to actually post about it!
Despite our best efforts to be prepared, the day started off a bit rough with a nearby mudslide taking out power in our building in the morning (meaning no hot coffee and no projector) and a 9-car pileup on a nearby freeway [...]

As I said to when I started the 4realz interviews, I reached out to four players in the real estate technology space and asked them a similar set of 9 questions.   I purposefully picked four people representing four different companies at different stages of development and different types/levels of funding.   First was Marty [...]

…rumor was quickly confirmed!
Congrats to the Trulia team.  That’s huge!

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…to start sending all their listings to Trulia at some point in March.
Considering the rough relationship between Realtor.com and Windermere, that would be a huge win for Trulia and would probably give them the most comprehensive listing coverage in the Seattle area of all the national real estate search sites (and in Zillow’s backyard!).

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After interviewing Marty last week, I thought it would be interesting to turn to Alex Chang (CEO of Roost) in order to get the perspective from someone entering the real estate search space from a different place in terms of timing, funding and resources…
I first met Alex while we he was setting up shop at [...]

…great real estate search sites.

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