Feedburner, a company dedicated to creating way for bloggers to get their feeds out, has recently released a feature that allows blog readers to sign up for blog articles via email. So, if you’d rather not navigate your way to Realty Thoughts to see if there is a new posting, you can now be [...]

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A lot of times you can find yourself looking for real estate information about a particular area online using traditional search engines like Yahoo and Google. However, sometimes you need to find pertinent information that is also recent – an area of search which traditional search engins lag in. This is where blog [...]

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(Via NPR)
Economist Steven Levitt (Freakonomics author – and also a great blogger) talks to Renee Montagne about the future of real estate agents. Levitt says their standard six-percent commission may become a thing of the past. The Internet is putting pressure on the fees that agents have become accustomed to.
Listen to it [...]

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Answer: Location, Location, Location.
Greg Miller, President of MarketcomPR, outlines the following 5 things that those interested in marketing their business on the web should understand:

Know what you’re buying. Web marketing is a seller’s market right now, with lots of “trust me” promises.
Prices are going up. You can buy guaranteed first-page placement with sponsored [...]

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At Saris we strive to keep an open line of communication up with those who use our products. Why is that important? For a number of reasons actually, reasons that benefit both us and our users.
First, because we’re so close to the building of our software, we sometimes can’t see what the the users see. [...]

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It’s bound to happen sometime. Brendan King, via Inman, talks about it. An excerpt:
Realtors clearly favor a national or some form of consolidated MLS, at least at a state level, according to the recent National Association of Realtors’ 2006 MLS Technology Survey. The survey also highlighted a few reasons why, including:

The expanding market [...]

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The real estate industry has been a “late bloomer” in the vertical search arena. Unlike their general-purpose cousins, such as the ones run by Google and Yahoo, vertical search engines contain information in their indexes about a specific topic. Vertical search is characterized by companies like Kayak and Expedia in travel, Shopping.com and [...]

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We’re the Saris team. We have quietly been building web-based applications for the real estate market for almost 5 years, and felt it was time to share our thoughts and insights on the technology and knowledge that we’ve built up over those years. This is our blog, our opinions and thoughts on what’s [...]

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